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Sparky, the Salem Fire Department mascot dog, takes a picture with some children. “This is a great game,” one kid...

One child receives a dollhouse so big that her little brother could get in it. All is calm, all is...

  Virginia’s Agriculture in the Classroom program has named Sleep Tight Farm: A Farm Prepares for Winter, a children’s book by Eugenie Doyle,...

Arby’s restaurants in Roanoke, Salem and Pulaski are raising funds for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Virginia. Enjoy a...

Virginia’s Agriculture in the Classroom program has named Sleep Tight Farm: A Farm Prepares for Winter, a children’s book by Eugenie Doyle, its...

Column By Frances Stebbins We will all remember 2016 as the year Donald Trump upset Hillary Clinton to become our...

  The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announced today that in January, representatives of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s...

Addition of 88 projects brings federal, partner investment to over $2 billion since 2014 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced...

The following is a list of forecasted highway projects that may impact traffic traveling in the 12-county Salem Transportation District...

Hazel Beeler Columnist A broken layer of stratocumulus clouds was sliding eastward on the wind. I tied a blaze orange...