Pressed against a deadline to act, the Roanoke City Council is holding another closed meeting Friday to discuss candidates for a vacant council seat. It’s the second closed-door meeting this week.

Among those efforts is the emergency financial assistance program, which for 40-plus years has been supported by The Roanoke Times’ Good Neighbors Fund. Unfortunately, the current campaign is ...

Five people were injured in a shooting incident that took place in northwest Roanoke early Friday morning, the police department reported. Officers responded to the 4100 block of Melrose Avenue ...

Roanoke resident Joycelyn Kasey said she has ... renting or whether they’re owning,” Cobb said. “We’re also, at times, feeling the burden of how do we present a balanced budget that ...

Vinton and Roanoke County are two of five communities to receive site remediation grants from the Virginia Brownfields Restoration and Economic Redevelopment Assistance Fund, Gov. Glenn Youngkin's ...

The State Police Star City Drug and Violent Crime Task Force (HIDTA), along with members of the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the city of Roanoke Police Department conducted the operation ...

The Roanoke Times’ Good Neighbors Fund supports the Emergency Financial Assistance Program administered by Roanoke Area Ministries. It helps families who need emergency money for utility bills ...

“Society today is afraid of hard times. Everybody wants a trophy, but nobody wants to pay the price to get it. … So we are thankful for every loss that we took.” The Hokies (11-14, 6 ...

Austyn Roudebush needed three wins to reach 100 entering Roanoke’s three-game homestand. He made sure to reach the feat in front of the home crowd. Roudebush completed the weekend sweep to ...

With a winter storm approaching, the sentencing of Richard Hamlett was rescheduled Monday to Feb. 27. Hamlett, 89, had been due to appear Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Roanoke to be sentenced ...

Roanoke scored four first-period goals and never looked back in claiming a 5-3 win over Huntsville on Thursday at the Berglund Center. The Rail Yard Dawgs (19-11-2-2) kicked off their three-game ...

As Burlington Elementary School on Peters Creek Road approaches full capacity, Roanoke County Public Schools are considering an attendance boundary rezoning. The rezoning would move around 50 ...