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] ...

Roanoke's Martin Luther King Jr. statue. PHOTO BY HENRI GENDREAU. Want to see your photo in our Happenings events calendar? Send us your best recognizably-Roanoke shots to [email protected].

A view of Riverdale in Southeast Roanoke in January 2024. Developer Ed Walker has stripped the former Roanoke Industrial Center of junk cars, scrap, chemicals, waste and unwanted tenants. ROANOKE ...

Business A Tale of Two Malls: Valley View and Tanglewood Plot Routes To Stay Alive in the Age of Amazon This is the story of two malls and their divergent approaches to dealing with the seismic ...