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 ...

After years plagued by tardy yellow buses, school board members in Roanoke cheered when they heard that buses are arriving on time at a 96% rate this year. “It has been fantastic,” said Chief ...

Protest signs proliferated outside the federal building in downtown Roanoke on Monday. Among the hundreds of people who amassed outside the former Richard H. Poff Federal Building during lunch ...

Employee pay remains a challenge as Roanoke city government budgets for the upcoming fiscal year, said City Manager Valmarie Turner.

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 ...

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 ...

The Times wanted to go online in 1996 with nytimes.com. But the domain was already owned — by a Times reporter. By Megan DiTrolio Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers ...

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Two transportation entities in the region announced passenger increases for 2024. Virginia Breeze Bus Lines, operated by the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation, had nearly ...

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 ...