Chesapeake VA

The Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore will host a Winter Relief Mobile Distribution event at Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater in Virginia Beach on Feb. 11, according to a press release.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Virginia Beach Police are trying to curb the violence that results from huge crowds of kids at the Oceanfront, focusing on “unpermitted pop-up events” while also calling for earlier curfews for those under 18, with its police chief saying officers, in essence, become babysitters for the...

Abigail Zwerner, the Richneck Elementary School teacher who was shot and seriously wounded by a 6-year-old student, deserves every penny of the $10 million that a Newport News Circuit Court judge approved recently. A jury in the civil case had awarded that amount against a former Richneck assistant principal in the...

Chesapeake Fire Department crews responded to a fire in the South Norfolk section of the city Wednesday afternoon.

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Students at Norview Middle School were evacuated Wednesday morning following an odor of smoke, according to Norfolk Fire-Rescue. Crews responded to the middle school at approximately 11:20 a.m. Upon arrival, they investigated the odor after a pull station had been activated. School personnel and...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — A Norfolk man who found a 56-year-old letter written by a man serving in Vietnam is looking to give it to his loved ones. Dylan Worley said he found the nearly six-decade old note in the home he’s in the process of buying off Albert Avenue in Norfolk. He said it happened when he was in the...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — Even if justice is served, the emotional wounds that opened the day 32-year old Donte Parrish was killed may remain open. “I’m still putting my hope in the justice system,” said Reginald Parrish, the victim’s father. “It’s just the beginning. This is the first step. I’ll see what happens...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — The Newport News Police Department is attempting to identify two fraud suspects. According to police, the two pictured women visited several different financial intuitions in Hampton and Newport News. They presented fraudulent member identification cards and obtained money by false pretenses.

Andarius McClelland was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Wednesday for killing 18-year-old Aonesty Selby in 2023.

After 114 years and 25 years, respectively, Norfolk's French Bakery and Portsmouth's Roger Brown's are the latest local restaurants to announcing that they're shutting down.