Roanoke VA

Two Salem Fire-EMS employees have been placed on administrative leave while the department investigates an off-duty incident in which a mother says her son was called a racial slur by two men driving a truck with Salem firefighter license plates on Interstate 81. Nanette Ugalde and her son, Lorenzo Dean,...

Police release name of man arrested and charged after a motorcycle chase that put an officer in the hospital.

ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) — Daily rain chances will continue over the first half of this week with decent rain totals possible. Showers and storms this evening will fade past sunset with mild overnight conditions as lows fall into the 60s. Monday will stay warm and muggy as highs return into the 80s.   A frontal […]

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - The Melrose Avenue Seventh-Day Adventist Church hosted a free community health fair Sunday. Neighbors connected with local resources and picked up free food and clothes. Pastor says relationships matter. Charles Brooks is the pastor of the Melrose Avenue Seventh-Day Adventist Church. He has lived

A Roanoke nonprofit that’s been serving unhoused people for 55 years is moving to a new location. In doing so, Roanoke Area Ministries is reinventing how it addresses homelessness. Roanoke Area Ministries was founded in 1971, and for the last 40 years it’s has been feeding and clothing unhoused...

ROANOKE, Va. – If you receive Social Security, your monthly benefit is expected to change next year. That’s because Social Security benefits are adjusted each year for inflation through what’s known as a cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA. The 2026 COLA was 2.8%. The Social Security Administration says...

Virginia Tech coach James Franklin continued his damage control after the Hokies 35-26 win over Maryland on Saturday night about Terrapins QB Malik Washington.

Some farms are about the animals. Some are about the food. This Virginia farm does both. You can visit for the alpacas, who are friendly and curious, and stay for the ice cream, which is sweet and made with care. The alpacas are kept in a pasture where you can...

KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE — Damaging wind gusts will be the primary hazard as scattered severe thunderstorms develop across the central and southern Appalachians tomorrow, Monday, September 21, according to a Severe Weather Outlook from Max Velocity, updated at 12:46 a.m. CDT. As a surface cold front advances southward thro

A driver was pulled from a pickup truck after crashing through a cinderblock wall and into a backyard pool in Gilbert Saturday morning.