The Transco compressor station in Chatham. Photo by Grace Mamon. The natural gas pipeline developer The Williams Companies plans another pipeline expansion in Virginia, this time to run from ...

Large substations, like this one, are needed in Northern Virginia to meet the energy demands of the data center industry. Photo by Grace Mamon. Northern Virginia is home to 35% of the world’s data ...

Congress passed a continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown in mid-March, amid a partisan fight over federal spending. That continuing resolution left out tens of millions of dollars in ...

In the movie “Star Trek: First Contact,” Capt. Jean-Luc Picard wrestles with an invasion by an alien species known as The Borg. He vows to fight back. “We’ve made too many compromises already; too ...

A drill core being tested and analyzed for carbon ore, rare earths and critical minerals. Courtesy of Richard Bishop. A Virginia Tech-led team hopes to turn trash into treasure by finding valuable ...

In a 2004 interview with the Washington Post, Ricky Haynie of Haynie Farms in Virginia mentioned, “You know what my gravest fear for Black people is?” he asks. “That we’ll end up on reservations. That ...

All Tech Town! illustrations by Ryan Brosmer. Railroads built Roanoke, but Norfolk Southern slowly but surely abandoned the “Magic City” that it sparked. City leaders looking for new avenues decided ...

The General Assembly has now passed its midpoint, where each chamber is required to finish work on its own bills and send any that have passed to the other chamber. Here’s where some of the bills ...

As a Southern farm boy of a certain generation, I grew up with the movie “Smokey and The Bandit” as a defining work of art. Teachers may have tried to direct our attention to the classics, such as ...

In 1895, a 24-year-old man sailed into the San Francisco Bay, returning home after a trip abroad. He’d never been in trouble with the law, had done nothing to attract anyone’s attention — he’d worked ...

The Microsoft data center in Mecklenburg is the only data center in Southside. Pittsylvania County approved a data center in July, though it will take years to build out. Photo by Grace Mamon. In his ...

Former chairman of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Mark Christie, was tapped by President Donald Trump to lead the independent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Monday. “It’s a ...