Norfolk VA

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — On Aug. 19, Norfolk Public Schools announced its policy for providing free meals to students for the 2026-2027 school year, according to a press release. Under the Health, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. the school district’s students will be given a nutritious meal for breakfast and lunch during ea

West Nile virus is showing up in Virginia Beach mosquitoes at a level the city’s biologist says she has not seen in four years. Virginia has reported six human cases so far this year, including one in the Eastern Region, though Virginia Beach officials said Aug. 19 that no human cases had been reported in the city.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — Breathe EZ Fitness Studio owner Quette Brown-Fletcher says breathing easy has become more difficult with the recent opening of a tobacco store next door in the DW Shopping Center. The gym name, an ode to her late husband, Derrick, who had to have a bilateral lung transplant and died three yea

A Norfolk elementary school will be closed Thursday after a vehicle crash caused a power outage.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — If you’ve happened to venture into the ocean recently, you may have noticed the water being a little warmer. You’re not the only one. “We have a lot of guests come in and ask about the warm waters and global warming and how that impacts a species off of our […]

Behind the constant chug of coal trains, Norfolk Southern’s terminal at Lambert’s Point fronts a large stretch of the Elizabeth River. Pam Boatwright first visited about 20 years ago and remembers it was in rough shape. “It was like an old sunken ship vessel; it had some remnant...

Downtown Norfolk Council is replacing the 10-year-old Neon Festival with a cycle of smaller, business-centered events called Neon Nights, with the first scheduled for Oct. 16.

HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) – A 24-year-old Hampton man was sentenced to five years in federal prison for distributing LSD and other illicit drugs, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. U.S. District Judge Arenda Wright Allen handed down the sentence to Josiah Antonio Travis in a Newport News federal court on Aug. 26.

Norfolk City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to let the city borrow hundreds of millions of dollars for flood control and street repairs by passing three separate spending measures. The first measure authorizes the city to issue stormwater system revenue bonds to help finance drainage projects across the city.

Norfolk Police Chief Mark Talbot says the city is seeing an increase in homicides this year even as several other categories of violent crime are trending downward.