Virginia Beach VA

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — The City of Virginia Beach announced they will be opening the parking garages at Town Center amid tidal flooding concerns over the weekend. According to a Facebook post, as a result of heavy rain, flooding and high winds expected to hit Virginia Beach over the weekend, the city will allow...

A coastal storm will bring heavy rain, flooding and gusty winds to Hampton Roads and coastal North Carolina this weekend.

An illegal immigrant from El Salvador was sentenced to 30 years in prison for repeatedly raping an 11-year-old girl in Virginia Beach. On Wednesday, the Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office shared the mugshot of 35-year-old Ricardo Lionel Mejia, who was sentenced on Tuesday. Mejia was booked into the Virginia Beach...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — “Gun violence doesn’t wait.”. Those are the words Portsmouth Crime and Gun Violence Prevention Task Force commissioner Lateacia Sessoms took to Facebook. According to the post and other commissioners 13News Now spoke with on Thursday, the task force's meeting room was empty, with not a single member...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Terri Liestman’s progress from stroke-induced paralysis got derailed a month ago, but thanks to 10 On Your Side viewers, she’s back on track. Liestman, 69, is once again riding on three wheels, and she’s also riding on three pillars of kindness — generosity, understanding and compassion....

(TNS) — A short-term task force will be formed to consider “pragmatic, realistic” enforcement measures of e-bike rules in the city, the Virginia Beach City Council decided at a meeting Tuesday. The move comes on the heels of community members raising the alarm about the use of...

When people buy a home in many flood-prone areas of Hampton Roads, they must purchase flood insurance before they can sign the final documents. Flood insurance is required for most buyers using federally-backed mortgages in government-drawn high risk flood zones. That includes parts of neighborhoods across the...

Chesapeake police are looking for two suspects in connection with a jewelry store robbery at the Greenbrier Mall Thursday afternoon.

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – A man has been charged with hit-and-run following a fatal crash involving a motorcycle on Gabriel Drive Monday, police said. Around 5:30 p.m. Monday, police received a report that a man, later identified as Harvey G. Midgette III, 34, of Norfolk, had died at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Two vehicles were involved in a crash on Deep Creek Boulevard at the intersection with Maxwell Avenue in Portsmouth Thursday afternoon, according to video sent in by a WAVY viewer. Surveillance video shared with WAVY shows a vehicle at the beginning of the video driving along Deep Creek...