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The stretch through Botetourt and Craig Counties uses existing rail beds and shared roadways
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Trust House was founded in 1970 as an emergency shelter and crisis hotline
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The Western Virginia Water Authority conducted long-term testing from October to December in a number of locations on the Roanoke River and its branches near Elliston in Montgomery County.
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Lawmakers are about to consider a new approach to treating substance-use disorder.
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A committee that is working to bring Roanoke’s hidden past to life raised more than $183,000 for this memorial and for a companion project in which visitors to six different places will be able to call up a multimedia presentation about that site on a digital device.
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State environmental regulators and the Western Virginia Water Authority are continuing to test for GenX in the Roanoke River.
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State environmental regulators have apparently located the source of so-called forever chemicals in the Roanoke River.
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There are more than 2,000 voting locations across Virginia. And each one is staffed by a handful of dedicated poll workers. These folks don’t work in elections year round, but choose each year to spend a day helping make democracy run. Here’s the story of one man in Roanoke who’s been doing it for almost 30 years.
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Across the country, blue roadside markers in gold letters have been going up at the sites of the lynchings of Black men, women and children. Now, Roanoke has one of those memorials.
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Since 2020 Roanoke has seen an increase in the number of people sleeping on sidewalks and downtown areas. Last December, the city council voted to make sleeping on sidewalks a criminal offense. Other communities across southwest Virginia, including Bristol and Pulaski, have enacted similar policies in the past few months.