Chesapeake VA

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Virginia — Frost coats car roofs and docks along the coast as a sharp chill settles over Hampton Roads. Calm air masks the cold, but winter is quietly tightening its grip. Morning temperatures hover in the...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Virginia Beach Mayor Bobby Dyer says the city is working to protect lives, especially the lives of youth. “We take juvenile violence and crime very seriously,” he said. On Tuesday night, city leaders voted to accept an almost half-million dollar grant for the Commonwealth’s...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – Michael Phillip Jones, 39, was convicted of misdemeanor trespassing on Dec. 18 and sentenced to 15 days in jail for his actions at the main Norfolk post office on Church Street. During a May 27, 2025 incident, he followed and harassed postal employees after entering a secured area clearly marked...

John Legend will perform "An Evening of Songs & Stories" at the Sandler Center for the Performing Arts in Virginia Beach on April 9, 2026, with tickets going on sale January 23, 2026.

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — He was everybody’s best friend. That’s how the Wade family of Virginia Beach remembers 66-year old David Wade, who was struck by a car at a Chesapeake gas station on South Military Highway last July and died. His mother, and sister told 10 On Your Side he liked to joke and […]

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — A mother and her son were injured following a collision with a police vehicle on Witchduck Road, according to the Virginia Beach Police Department. On Jan. 12, an officer was responding to a priority 2 call for service at approximately 7:45 p.m. Police said the officer was traveling...

Two people were taken to the hospital following a three-vehicle crash Monday morning in Chesapeake, according to police.

Norfolk Police are investigating an undetermined death after a deceased man was found Monday morning on Tidewater Drive.

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., Gamma Delta Omega Chapter, partnered with the city of Portsmouth on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to support local families.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WVEC/CNN NEWSOURCE/WKRC) - A Navy aviation rescue swimmer jumped into action in Virginia Beach to save a woman trapped inside a sinking vehicle after it plunged into the water near a boat ramp. Jeremy Way said he was having lunch at a nearby restaurant when he heard...