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More money is flowing to a North Main Street project and competition that trains entrepreneurs. The River District Association recently announced a $240,000 grant from the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development. The money ...

Contractor Blair Construction has worked with architect Dewberry and other partners to complete most of the steel structure of the future Center for Manufacturing Advancement at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research in Danville.

Danville’s Institute for Advanced Learning and Research has landed more than $581,000 in grants for a program aimed to bridge students with high-wage jobs.

RINGGOLD — The local and regional officials gathered at the groundbreaking of the Tyson Foods’ future manufacturing facility sounded as excited as a 3-year-old learning that chicken nuggets are on the lunch menu. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam ...

$5 million Department of Defense grant will help train shipbuilding workers in Danville. Gov. Ralph Northam announced the funding last week to help the state’s manufacturing industries. Danville and Hampton Roads will benefit from the money, ...

Danville officials hope to redraw the geographic boundaries of an enterprise zone in the city in order to attract more industry. An enterprise zone is an area where industries can receive state and local incentives for locating there.

Ikea shut down its manufacturing facility at Cane Creek Centre Industrial Park in Ringgold nearly two years ago. Since then, the 800-acre park off South Boston Road has seen a windfall of investment and newly created jobs. Nearly 1,200 jobs ...

Linwood Wright, a former Dan River Inc. executive who served on Danville City Council from 1986 to 1998 and most recently worked as public and governmental affairs consultant with the city’s economic development office, died Wednesday morning. ...