
Pharmaceutical manufacturer Civica Inc. to create 186 jobs in Petersburg
Civica Inc. will invest $124.5 million to establish its first in-house pharmaceutical manufacturing operation in the City of Petersburg.

Civica Inc. will invest $124.5 million to establish its first in-house pharmaceutical manufacturing operation in the City of Petersburg.

Wearing a face covering, physical distancing, and hand washing are not the only ways that people can protect themselves from COVID-19.

Families are complicated. For members of the alligatorid family, which includes living caimans and alligators – this is especially true. They are closely related, but because of their similarity, their identification can even stump paleontologists.

Dr. Jewel H. Bronaugh has been appointed deputy secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture.

Virginia Tech’s growing impact in the greater Washington, D.C., metro area will receive a significant boost thanks to a multimillion-dollar gift from Octo founder and CEO Mehul Sanghani and his wife, Hema Sanghani.

Climate Action Alliance of the Valley produces The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News. Excerpts from a recent Roundup follow; full Roundup is here.

Virginia Democrat Gerry Connolly and Pennsylvania Republican Brian Fitzpatrick have introduced the Preventing a Patronage System Act.

The ambitious effort to roll out the COVID-19 vaccine to a new priority group of people in the New River Valley is moving quickly and drumming up excitement in its wake.

In spring, when 17-year-old John R. Lewis High School student Kadija Ismail, of Springfield, learned she’d been accepted into the Virginia Tech Pathways for Future Engineers program, she wasn’t sure she fit the bill as a future engineer.

Linsey C. Marr, the Charles P. Lunsford Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech, will give the 10th annual Delta Dental Oral Health Endowed Lecture virtually on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
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