Kevin Myatt

Halloween brought a horror story for Elmer the pig. Elmer typically splits his time between free ranging in the yard with two canine housemates

The extreme heat has shifted out west, with high pressure bending the upper-air flow southward over Virginia.

The recurring warm-water phenomenon in the Pacific is a reality and it might become the strongest on record. But its effects on Virginia weather are not set in stone.

Nine years ago, Amanda Qadado '14, MPH '17 was a Virginia Tech public health graduate student helping compile data for the 2018-22 Virginia Cancer Plan.

A game of chess would be impossible to play if one didn't know what pieces occupied what squares and didn't understand how each piece moved.

For most healthy people, Cryptococcus is an unnoticed infection. The immune system walls it off in the lungs and keeps it dormant for life. But in patients undergoing cancer chemotherapy, recovering from an organ transplant, living with HIV or taking newer immunosuppressing drugs for autoimmune disease, the fungus can reactivate, spread to the brain and cause meningitis.

Monday’s storms may be the harbinger of additional rounds of potentially severe storms on Tuesday and beyond.

Washington and the Continental Army were about to be bottled up by the British beside the East River in New York, but then, the fog rolled in.

By any name — squall line, bow echo, mesoscale convective system or derecho — Monday's and Tuesday's storms stirred up some gusty winds.

If a veterinarian could use a smartphone camera and artificial intelligence to grade tumors, it could be done more readily in remote areas or without expensive diagnostic equipment.