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Standing on a small pier overlooking a private pond on Bent Mountain, James Beheler casts his fly rod into the water. On his first cast, he expertly hooks a trout. Gently scooping it into a net, Beheler holds it up for others to see before slowly releasing it back into the water. Afterward, he looks over his shoulder and smiles at his mentor and friend, Bob Crawshaw. Beheler’s journey here began 10 years ago when he was serving in the Navy and had been deployed to Kunar Province, Afghanistan. “It’s something that’s going to be with us for the rest of our lives,” Behel...

For the first time since a natural gas pipeline used its power of eminent domain to take private property three years ago, a jury is being asked to determine a fair price. A trial began Tuesday to decide just compensation for James and Kathy Chandler, whose 111-acre rural property and custom-built home atop Bent Mountain will be bisected by the Mountain Valley Pipeline. U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Dillon ruled in 2018 that Mountain Valley had a right to begin construction on a 4.3-acre sliver of the land — over the objections of the Chandlers, who see it as a nightmare to their dream h...

The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending April 30th indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US rose by 60 billion cubic feet to 1,958 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 345 billion cubic feet, or 15.0% below the 2,303 billion cubic feet that were in storage on April 30th of last year, and 61 billion cubic feet, or 3.0% below the five-year average of 2,019 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 30th of April in recent years....the 60 billion cubic feet that were added t...

Federal prosecutors in Roanoke were asked two years ago to look into possible violations of the Clean Water Act.

Roanoke County broadband divide narrows as more projects announced Roanoke County broadband divide narrows as more projects announced There’s an end in sight for 300 families left on the wrong side of the digital divide Updated:  Tags:  On Tuesday, county leaders approved more than $3 million for broadband expansion in their most rural communities. In Roanoke County, it’s the tale of the broadband have’s and has not’s. Catawba Supervisor Martha Hooker said they’re now able to close that gap. “It’s just a very rural area that needs this infrastructure in place to do things that...