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This June will mark the fifth year that Juneteenth has been recognized as a national holiday. As calendars fill up with cultural festivals and celebratory events, a first-of-its-kind Juneteenth festival is set to premiere on the Virginia Beach Oceanfront this summer with headliners Keke Wyatt and Vivian Green featuring appearances from Aliah Sheffield and Butcher Brown. Jazzteenth, the only Juneteenth celebration...

Suffolk residents are speaking out against a proposed one-cent real estate tax reduction, saying it doesn't offset rising utility and property costs.

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — Since the nationwide school bus driver shortage started during COVID, students in the region have been feeling real impacts, including a Chesapeake family who says their son’s school bus has been late every day for the past two years. “It’s supposed to get there at like 8:10, 8:15 [a.m.],” said 10th […]

Virginia Beach police are investigating a possible burglary Monday morning at Bucketheads Beach Grill.

Community members in Hampton, Virginia, were joined by state leaders to dedicate the African Landing Memorial Plaza, a new Virginia memorial that pays homage to the first documented enslaved Africans who arrived in Virginia more than 400 years ago. The dedication ceremony comes years after residents and organizations, including the 1619 Project and The William...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — A rental car company employee was convicted April 24 on several related bank robbery and weapons charges after stealing a sedan from the rental company where he worked and using it to rob a credit union and two banks. Tyrone K. Jefferson, 38, faced a federal jury in the Eastern […]

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A reported stolen vehicle led to a police investigation Monday morning near a parking garage on the campus of Christopher Newport University. According to Newport News police, officers were first called to the 700 block of Thimble Shoals Boulevard for a report of a stolen vehicle. The victim told police her car was missing from where she had parked it in...

HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY)– Police in Hampton are asking for the assistance of the public in solving a homicide case from 2021. Tru Butcher, 17, was killed on May 29, 2021 in the 90 block of Tidemilll Lane. Police say Butcher had just moved to the city of Hampton and was 15 days away from turning […]

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A pedestrian was killed in a crash Wednesday night in Virginia Beach, according to police. The pedestrian-involved crash was reported just before 9 p.m. in the 1900 block of Centerville Turnpike. Officers found the pedestrian when they arrived. Police say the driver of the vehicle...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — A Chesapeake woman has pleaded guilty to obtaining controlled substances by fraud after admitting to diverting pain medication intended for patients under her care. According to federal court documents, Michelle Kollmar, 56, entered her guilty plea on April 24. Prosecutors say that between January 2023 and...