
Virginia prisoners to be eligible for college credit classes
Virginia will become the only state in the nation to offer state prisoners college credit for five career and technical education courses.

Virginia will become the only state in the nation to offer state prisoners college credit for five career and technical education courses.

The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is accepting applications for USDA Agricultural Marketing Service Specialty Crop Block Grant funding.

More than 300 schools in Virginia have changed the way they serve breakfast this school year, resulting in an increase of 21,000 students participating in the National School Breakfast Program.

Farmers, economic development staff, and local government leaders are gathering for the 2016 Virginia Conference on Agritourism on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 5 and 6.

With one week before the scheduled adjournment of March 12, the 2016 General Assembly is nearing completion on all major issues.

The 2016 Virginia Agritourism Conference will be held April 5 and 6 at the Southern Virginia Higher Education Center.

A Microsoft research grant will allow researchers from Virginia Tech to explore the potential uses of its HoloLens devices for advancing research in the area of mixed reality.

Virginia Tech is helping the commonwealth’s beer industry, which has a more than $8 billion annual economic impact and contributes $2.9 billion in annual total tax contributions.

Shenandoah Valley Workforce Development Board CEO Sharon Johnson was recently named to the State Steering Committee for the Virginia Values Veterans Program.

Virginia Tech researchers have developed a soil rehabilitation method that can help fix the compacted, rock-hard soils left behind after land development.
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