
Amazon selects Virginia for new corporate headquarters
Amazon, Inc. will invest approximately $2.5 billion to establish a major new headquarters in Virginia that will create more than 25,000 high-paying jobs over 12 years.

Amazon, Inc. will invest approximately $2.5 billion to establish a major new headquarters in Virginia that will create more than 25,000 high-paying jobs over 12 years.

In honor of Veterans Day, Virginia Tech and the National Archives will host a transcribe-a-thon to make accessible an unusual collection of wartime documents.

Carry-On Trailer, Inc., a leading manufacturer of steel and utility trailers, will invest $1.6 million to expand its facility in Westmoreland County.

Barack Obama received 3,840 votes in Waynesboro in his 2012 presidential re-election run. Jennifer Lewis, political neophyte, received, wait for it, 3,840 votes in Waynesboro in her 2018 bid for the Sixth District congressional seat.

As she presents to a class of residential design students at Virginia Tech, Ellen Cheever, an icon in the kitchen and bath design industry, points proudly to the alcove behind her.

Harlow Group Ltd., a leading provider of precision engineered, fabricated, machined and 3D printed additive components, will invest $8 million to locate its first U.S. precision sheet metal fabrication plant, to be called Harlow Fastech, in the City of Danville and Pittsylvania County.

Continental, one of the leading manufacturers of automotive, fashion, and industrial interior textiles, will invest $10.3 million to expand its O’Sullivan Films production facility in the City of Winchester.

On October 24, President Trump signed into law a landmark bipartisan bill to fight the opioid crisis.

There has been a recent decline in the cost of college. For a college student or a parent of a college student, this is great. Tuition, books, extra fees and housing are being reduced.

More students could incorporate international experiences into their college years if money were available to support their study abroad aspirations.