This Saturday, Elmwood Park in downtown Roanoke will host the 33rd annual event.
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The AP called the race, making Attorney General Patrick Morrisey the frontrunner going into the November election in the heavily Republican state. But a Democrat hopes for an upset.
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Virginia’s unusually warm spring has meant a bumper crop of caterpillars attacking oaks and other trees in Shenandoah National Park, prompting an aerial attack. For the first time since 2008, forest managers are spraying to prevent a massive loss of leaves.
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“We are really finding out what really happened, who made policy decisions, when were those policy decisions actually made and what the chain of authority has been,” Senator Ghazala Hashmi said.
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Noticeably absent, however, was a new digital sales tax proposed by Democrats.
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Lawmakers came back to Richmond Monday for a special session to approve a budget. And the compromise does not include money for an environmental priority of the Democrats.
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Lawmakers were back in Richmond Monday to pass a budget. Supporters of skill games are still waiting for on resolution of that issue, though.
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The challenge in treating cancer is to kill tumors but spare healthy tissue, and a team of scientists at the University of Virginia may have stumbled on a new way to do that. Sandy Hausman reports their findings could help people with melanoma, breast, kidney, and ovarian cancers.
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The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality issued 13 fines Friday to the Mountain Valley Pipeline, totaling $31,500. DEQ says these incidents violated a consent decree MVP signed with the state in 2019.
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When farmers in Southwest Virginia started planting hemp to produce CBD oil they thought it would be a reliable cash crop for many years to come. But five years later the market for hemp has proven to be unsustainable.Katie Thomason wrote about the collapse of the hemp market for Cardinal News. She talked about it with Fred Echols.
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“The university will prop us up and use it for representation on their own behalf but the moment we speak up we’re oppressed,” one graduating student said.
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