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Roanoke schools are solarizing, with rooftop arrays that save money on energy costs and roof replacement. Now the company behind that push wants to expand it to city buildings.

At a time when federal cuts are threatening some services at rural libraries, one library system in Southwest Virginia is adding a new branch. People in the Fort Chiswell community came together to help open their new library.

Are puzzles part of your daily routine? Perhaps you do more than one or two – or three puzzles a day. What are the pros and cons of these exercises for the brain? And can one get too much of a fun thing?

Now that November’s election tallies have been finalized, it’s becoming clearer which candidates over-performed, or under-performed, their party’s standard bearer at the top of the ticket.

Franklin will be introduced at a news conference Wednesday morning.

A judge in Charlottesville heard testimony Monday in the sentencing of Christopher Darnell Jones, Jr.— the man who’s admitted to killing three members of the UVA football team, wounding a fourth and another student.

A notorious stretch of Interstate 81 in Botetourt County is getting straightened out. It’s just the latest in a series of major upgrades to the highway.

Centra Health will end OB/GYN services at its Southside Community Hospital in Farmville in December. With new Medicaid rules expected to reduce insurance reimbursements to rural hospitals many providers are facing difficult decisions about whether they can afford to continue expensive services like OB/GYN.Cardinal News health reporter Emily Schabacker is covering this story and she spoke with Fred Echols.

When the next General Assembly goes into session in January, the House of Delegates committees will have more Democrats and fewer Republicans.

UVA’s interim president appeared before the faculty senate Friday to defend the agreement he signed with the Department of Justice. Professors and Democrats in Richmond had argued the federal government had no right to interfere with a state university’s academic freedom.