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Southwest Virginia fish farm project ‘on pause’ due to tariffs, gas prices
The state delegate who proposed the aquaculture center 13 years ago says he remains hopeful it will still happen. The developer, Pure Salmon, has said it has invested more than $80 million in the site.
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Roanoke Valley
Another plan is in the works for Roanoke’s most hotly debated piece of undeveloped land. Will this one be the catalyst for a decision?
“We’re not in this to produce some result that is not what the community wants,” said one of the leaders involved.
New River Valley
A small patch could save lives from fentanyl overdoses and become a platform for other medical uses, Virginia Tech researchers say
The device, which detects the powerful opioid and releases an antidote, has been tested in mice, with use in humans at least four years away.
Lynchburg Area
State approves 11 new historical markers, including one in Lynchburg
That marker will recognize Lt. Gen. George G. Loving Jr., who grew up in the city and went on to a long military career that spanned 1942 to 1979.
Southwest: Bristol and Beyond
Washington County judges say courthouse still has ‘miserable’ humidity after three-week closure due to black mold
An August air quality test showed “significantly contaminated” mold levels in courtrooms, lobbies, judges’ offices and jury rooms.
danville area
Avio CEO at Hurt groundbreaking: ‘We chose Virginia because of this area’
Gov. Abigail Spanberger attended the event, saying the project represents the next generation of manufacturing.
Martinsville area
Martinsville’s warming center finds a new home at Soul Winners International Ministries
It has been located at the Salvation Army on Memorial Boulevard.
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Sports
He was shot in the head twice and survived. Now he’s being inducted into a Virginia university’s sports hall of fame.
The former Emory & Henry star still has one of the bullets in his head from a 1986 armed robbery.
WEATHER
The great reservoir refill of 2002. Can that repeat in 2026?
An El Niño-charged weather pattern washed away an extreme Virginia drought in three months 24 years ago.
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Patrick Henry’s secret plan to extend Virginia westward during the revolution
George Rogers Clark gets the historical credit for “the conquest of the Northwest,” as the land between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi was then called. It was Henry who authorized the military action as a secret mission on behalf of Virginia, not the United States.
headlines from across the state
Headlines from across the state: No job after college? JMU will let struggling grads come back for free; more …
From elsewhere: First bill of 2027 aims to protect people with autism, other disabilities. Rare bee rediscovered in Virginia after more than a century. A new report says Norfolk Naval Shipyard has to juggle aging infrastructure and massive upgrades.
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