ABINGDON - The Rapha Foundation (RAPHA) has announced a donation of $25,000 designated to the Wise County 2022 Disaster Fund managed by United Way of Southwest Virginia.
After a series of severe storms Tuesday caused extreme flooding, Gov. Glenn Youngkin has declared a state of emergency in Buchanan County. Initial reports indicate more than 100 homes were damaged or destroyed.
Southwest Virginians continue to have some of the state’s poorest health outcomes and face some of its most challenging health factors, according to a new report.
In the summer 2012, when I began covering what we then called “the heroin epidemic” for The Roanoke Times, it was shocking news that the drug had infiltrated Roanoke County’s