The Columbine High School principal who spent years educating students and schools about lessons learned from the 1999 massacre will no longer talk to visitors about the tragedy, unless they have been cleared by school security.

The "Wheel of Fortune" wasn't the only thing spinning for Pat Sajak and Vanna White back in the day.

Unable to receive service from its previous provider Atmos Energy, the Carroll County Industrial Development Authority (IDA) has solicited proposals from qualified engineering providers for the pla...

The Waynesboro and Staunton police departments have suspended the operation of their reserve police units after a state agency last month told Virginia police chiefs that reserve officers must complete the same training as sworn full-time officers.

Waynesboro Mayor Frank Lucente announced Thursday that he will be running for re-election to the at-large seat on City Council.

Waynesboro police said the 26-year-old Staunton man suffered life-threatening injuries.

On Thursday, First Aid Crew Juniors President Tara Morrison and her colleagues remembered the late Kyle Southern with a memorial blood drive at First Aid Crew headquarters.

A whimsical work by Mark Cline of Natural Bridge attains a lofty perch at the downtown museum.

A crane lifted a sculpture of King Kong clutching an airplane onto Roanoke's Taubman Museum of Art's third floor balcony Thursday morning, the first installment in "Blue Ridge Barnum," an exhibition of roadside attraction artist Mark Cline's wacky creations that opens Feb. 10.

The Roanoke County School Board is looking at a nearly $10 million shortfall as the 2012-13 budget drafting season commences — and the board will be exploring ways to come up with 3 percent raises for employees despite the funding crisis.

Even in a "sluggish" economy, the United Way raised $6.14 million in donations and pledges in 2011 for programs in the Roanoke Valley. That's $100,000 more than 2010.

Debbie Meade, president and publisher of The Roanoke Times and chairwoman of the 2011 United Way campaign, announced the new figures at United Way of Roanoke Valley's annual campaign awards celebration at the Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center, according to a news release from the nonprofit organization.