Chesapeake VA

One year ago, Dale Homes made a choice to change. Today — 365 days later — not a single shooting has happened in a neighborhood.

More than 2,000 local high school seniors celebrated the start of their next chapter at College Commitment Day with four-time Grammy Award-winning producer Timbaland.

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – Keep Norfolk Beautiful will host its FREE “Norfolk Recycles Day” Special Waste Collection Event on Saturday, May 9, from 9 a.m. to noon. The free drive-through and drop-off event will allow Norfolk residents to properly dispose of household hazardous waste, electronics, plastics and other materials at Azalea Baptist Church, located at […]

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — With warmer weather right around the corner, bear sightings are becoming more commonplace, depending on where you live. A group of bears was spotted in Chesapeake last month, and miles away in Virginia Beach, another bear was spotted in the Alanton neighborhood, of all places.

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Ashley Dagner, charged with two counts of child abuse and one count of assault and battery following an Amber Alert, was granted bond Monday. “I started crying, they woke me up about my sleep, so I didn’t know what was going on with the situation.” said Ashley Dagner’s sister, Erin Jones, […]

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — For more than a year now, construction crews have descended en masse on the nearly 100 acres of land just east of St. Juliens Annex. Surrounded by the southern branch of the Elizabeth River on two sides and St. Juliens Creek Annex and the Norfolk Southern Railroad on the others, much […]

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — City leaders in Newport News are taking a closer look at a major new event planned for Memorial Day weekend, as excitement builds alongside lingering concerns about logistics and public safety. During a closed session Monday morning, the Newport News City Council met to discuss...

SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — A Suffolk teen is “lucky to be alive” after being electrocuted Friday and falling 60 feet after climbing a high-tension power line. To get a closer look at what could be called a miracle, Drone 10 flew above high-tension power lines that run perpendicular to Brook and Delaware avenues in Suffolk […]

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va (WAVY) — A decade’s-long tradition continued for professional golfer Marc Leishman and his wife Audrey at the Virginia Bech National Golf Club Monday as The Begin Again Foundation hosted its 11th annual celebrity golf tournament benefitting sepsis awareness. “That was a rough time for our family,” said Leishman, who saw his wife, […]

Hampton Police are investigating a shooting Monday evening on West Mercury Boulevard where one adult was struck multiple times by gunfire.