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Posted inSouthwest Area
RiverStreet Networks, which lost its contracts to deploy broadband in multiple Virginia localities, files for bankruptcy
The company says it will continue to serve the customers that it has connected to its service.
Posted inSports
VHSL points update with three weeks left: 20 teams remain undefeated
Here are the points standings through Oct. 20.
Posted inNews Briefs
Headlines from across Virginia: Debate over trans students running for homecoming court goes to Mecklenburg school board; more . . .
From elsewhere: Franklin County board votes down pay raise for teachers. Albemarle schools say they are in “crisis.” Virginia State welcomes record enrollment.
Posted inOpinion
Consultant: Western Virginia is on the data center map. Landowners should set the terms.
A county, an industrial development authority, a foundation or a nonprofit that controls a developable site does not need to wait for a developer’s proposal. It can write its terms first and then invite developers to compete to meet them. If it leases the land rather than selling it, those terms stop being promises made at a public hearing. They become lease covenants, enforceable for decades.
Posted inMartinsville area
Amid municipal troubles, Martinsville candidates talk about moving the city forward at Cardinal News forum
Ideas ranged from rebuilding trust and changing the narrative to bringing in jobs, housing and the school sales tax.
Posted inWeather
Weekend snow on highest peaks opens up peek at winter snow potential
What may be the strongest El Niño on record looms over the winter ahead, but that could go to either extreme.
Posted inNew River Valley
Procedural mistake brings another opportunity to weigh in on development that would change Elliston
More than 300 homes are proposed for a portion of the historic Fotheringay property.
Posted inRoanoke Valley
‘We’re not there yet’: Salem City Council candidates mostly still shaping opinions about data center growth in the region
They generally agree that the issue certainly can’t be ignored.
Posted inOpinion
Danville has reversed decades of population decline. Since 2020, only three cities in Virginia have added more people.
The city has also seen wages rise faster than most places in the country. Here’s a look at the city’s demographic and economic trends.
