One man suggested that Roanoke County residents worried about an electric utility's use of herbicides in their neighborhood consider also the likely presence in their homes of what he described as more dangerous chemicals.

Roanoke County police on Wednesday identified the man who was killed when the dump truck he was driving was hit by a train.

A Washington and Lee University professor's lawsuit accusing the Virginia Lottery of breach of contract remains alive after the state sought to have it dismissed this week.

A Covington woman was killed Tuesday morning in a multivehicle wreck on Interstate 64 in Alleghany County, Virginia State Police said.

Kristi Humphreys, 25, of Covington died just before 8 a.m. at Alleghany Regional Hospital, said Sgt. B.D. Olha.

Tonight and Saturday night, people in the Roanoke area have good opportunities to see the international space station with the space shuttle Endeavour docked to it as they pass directly over the Roanoke Valley. They will appear together as a single bright star, growing to the brightness of Jupiter, which lies in the southwest as darkness fa......

Hospital giant HCA Inc. announced today it will eliminate some positions at hospitals in Southwest Virginia.

Hubbell Lighting Inc. is expected to layoff 39 people at its Christiansburg plant in the coming weeks.

Employees were informed last week of the layoffs, which come as the industrial lighting company braces for a continued slowdown in construction projects, said Steve Nail, vice president of human resources for Hubbell Lighting.

It's a pretty reliable formula: When state support for higher education goes down, tuition goes up.

RADFORD -- Grab a pen for a pop quiz.

Which crops or natural resources are richest where you live? And where exactly are you anyway?

A retired Salem teacher has created a lesson plan on mapping designed to answer those questions and ke......

CHRISTIANSBURG -- Montgomery County school employees have requested pay raises and new benefits in the next fiscal year, even though money is likely to be tight in the upcoming budget cycle.

Montgomery County School Board members had their first pub......

CHRISTIANSBURG -- The group of residents working to bring a referendum to move Christiansburg's elections from May to November of odd-numbered years has turned in its petition with more than double the number of signatures volunteers aimed to collect.

Someone is interested.

Radford received one proposal to take over Radnet, the city's wireless internet system.

Launched in 2006, the system hasn't made enough money to pay back the city's initial investment. In July, city council voted to withhold the last $50,000 of the $1 million it had allocated to the project.

BLACKSBURG -- Some tapped their feet. Others swayed with the music. Some sat with their eyes closed, taking in the recording of "When the Saints Go Marching In."

"They're wanting to dance," noted one onlooker.