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RINGANA is a life sciences company specializing in premium skincare and nutritional products.

Austrian company to set up US headquarters in Roanoke RINGANA will set up its U. S. headquarters in Roanoke, creating 435 jobs.

“There’s nowhere else like it on the U.S. Atlantic Coast,” Virginia Tech researcher Sarah Karpanty says.

Tracking Red Knots on their spring migration through Virginia's Eastern Shore Scientists on the Eastern Shore are keeping tabs on how changes in the environment may affect some migratory shore birds, including a federally threatened species called red knots.

It's taken 12 years to get to this point since Apex first announced its plan to build the wind farm – and seven more since landowner Jerry Fraley began pursuing the idea in 2007.

Turbines are going up at Rocky Forge Wind Construction is underway on Rocky Forge, a nearly 80 megawatt wind farm on North Mountain. Government officials and community boosters gathered with Apex Clean Energy and its contractors to sign a 254-foot wind turbine blade.

ICYMI: "We need to make sure that we do not do anything to kill the golden goose. I really don't care about a specific industry. I care about keeping our word to businesses that we attract, and that we want to retain in the Commonwealth of Virginia. That's what I care about."

Speaker Scott says Virginia should honor its word on business deals, including with data centers The new fiscal year starts next month, but Virginia still has no budget. And leaders in the General Assembly are still divided over what to do about a tax break for data centers.