Roanoke VA

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.

WEEK 4 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 (4-0)JEFFERSON FOREST 69, (1-3)LIBERTY 0 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 (2-2)NORTH CROSS 35, (0-3) ATLANTIC SHORES CHRISTIAN 8 (3-1)PATRICK HENRY 42, (1-3)WILLIAM FLEMING 7 (1-2)FREDERICKSBURG CHRISTIAN 36, (1-3)HARGRAVE MILITARY 30 (4-0)MAGNA VISTA 42, (0-4)FRANKLIN COUNTY 3 (3-0)LIBERTY CHRISTIAN

The list of forecasted highway projects is now online. These are projects that may impact traffic traveling in the 12-county Salem Transportation District over the next week. Work schedules and construction project timelines are always subject to change and weather dependent. New information is noted by “New” and updat

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - On Saturday, locals made their way in drove to Carilion Clinic in Roanoke for the hospital’s first-ever public screening for Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD). September is PAD awareness month, and WDBJ7 previously spoke with Dr. Eric Ambroz, a vascular surgeon with Carilion, about the difficulty...