Battle lines are being drawn over who will fill the remaining two years of Roanoke Mayor Joe Cobb’s vacant City Council seat.

Roanoke property owners are seeing an average 8 percent increase in their real estate tax bills this year, a historically ...

The science of falling things smashed our street. Now it plants acorns in the Carolina clay where the red mud welcomes every ...

The parking garage beside the Amtrak platform has been closed since April, when city officials deemed the structure unsafe.

What are Ramblings? Ramblings are a collection of short items that have caught our attention for one reason or another.

A concert at Berglund Center Coliseum in 2023. PHOTO BY LINDSEY HULL Want to see your photo in our Happenings events calendar? Send us your best recognizably-Roanoke shots to [email protected] ...

The head of the Roanoke Valley Greenway Commission submitted his resignation last week. Local governments task the commission with coordinating the planning, development and maintenance of trails for ...

As the Taubman Museum of Art hits its 15th anniversary later this fall, the museum has settled into a routine that works: fewer public hours, more group tours and more special events, which include ...

An affordable housing developer proposes building a 155-unit apartment complex on the properties between Bullitt and Jamison avenues, as seen above. PHOTO BY HENRI GENDREAU FOR THE ROANOKE RAMBLER For ...

Newly released video captures the moment in 2016 when Roanoke County police officers fatally shot 18-year-old Kionte Desean Spencer as he turned toward them holding a broken BB gun. The shooting has ...