Psychedelics as treatment for cocaine addiction? A Roanoke doctor won a federal grant to study the possibilities.

Federal grant will help Mount Rogers Community Services expand access to suicide prevention training

The three-year award will help the agency teach hundreds more people to recognize warning signs and connect people to behavioral health services.

New schizophrenia treatments, AI in mental health among topics at inaugural symposium in Roanoke

The two-day gathering on precision therapeutics will be held at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.

Facing continued enrollment declines, Bedford County renews talk of elementary school consolidation

The division's students are unequally distributed across the county, with some schools seeing growth while others are losing population.

Hashmi goes back to the classroom to talk about some important books

The lieutenant governor, a former literature professor, has created a lecture tour on the intersection of literature and politics.

When Natural Bridge Zoo moved Asha the elephant to Florida, officials there said the transfer violated state law

Recently obtained documents show that a veterinarian said the move was an emergency, but subsequent examination found nothing wrong with the pachyderm. This fuels speculation that the Rockbridge County attraction moved the animal to avoid an impending state raid.