Mayor Joe Cobb says the biomedical industry the city has grown wouldn’t be possible without the Roanoke River Flood Reduction Project.

The polls continue to suggest that voters aren’t much interested in the issues that Republican Winsome Earle-Sears has been running on.

Solar energy systems, especially when paired with battery storage, can produce low-cost power during peak hours, when electricity is most expensive on the wholesale market. Batteries can then ...