Virginia Beach VA

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — A vehicle overturned and caught fire in an accident Friday night on I-64 east, according to Norfolk Fire-Rescue. Norfolk Fire-Rescue units responded to the single-vehicle accident around 8 p.m. at the off-ramp for I-64 eastbound at Northampton Boulevard. Preliminary investigation indicates an SUV went off the left side of the road, […]

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — A woman is dead after a crash involving a pedestrian on General Booth Boulevard in Virginia Beach Saturday afternoon, according to the Virginia Beach Police Department. At around 4:27 p.m. on Oct. 24, Emergency Communications and Citizen Services received a reported crash involving a pedestrian in the 1600 block of […]

A community effort is underway to preserve the legacy of Virginia Beach educator Bettie F. Williams once the elementary school that bears her name is demolished. On Tuesday, October 20, residents gathered at Bayside Middle School for a “Listening Session” to discuss suggestions for the renaming of the Tri-Campus Attendance Zone and Campus where Bettie F. Williams Elementary School is located in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

With the 2026 Harvest Moon hovering in a cloudless sky, the setting was perfect for music lovers across the country on Saturday, September 26. Whether it was Farm Aid 2026 with a Virginia crowd wearing T-shirts, gimme caps and blue jeans, or the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s black-tie gala at the Meyerson Symphony Center, kicking off North Texas’ fall social season, the night was tailor-made for music aficionados of all stripes.

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — After several calls reporting a fire, the Chesapeake Fire Department responded to a barn/shed fire late Friday on Shillelagh Road in the Grassfield area. Firefighters arrived on the scene at 11:03 p.m. and found a small barn/shed engulfed in flames and collapsed. Firefighters worked to extinguish the fire and brought it […]

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) – Good news for drivers who need to travel across the North Landing Bridge on the border of Chesapeake and Virginia Beach. It reopened on Friday — several days ahead of schedule. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) closed the North Landing Bridge to vehicle traffic on Monday, October 5 for […]

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Six co-conspirators are facing charges in the federal indictment, three of them family members of State Sen. L. Louise Lucas, while the other three seem to be business partners of hers. “These charges are not limited to one defendant, however,” said Theophani Stamos, first assistant United States attorney for the Eastern […]

After spending 333 days deployed overseas, sailors aboard the USS McFaul returned to Naval Station Norfolk on Friday, reuniting with loved ones and some meeting family members they had never met before.

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY)- The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has issued drought warning for many cities and counties in the southeastern section of the state. Due to longer-term dry conditions and recent widely varying precipitation, the Drought Monitoring Task Force (DMTF) recommended the drought escalation in Southeast Virginia change from a watch to warning advisory. […]

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Virginia Beach police have predicted the physical appearance of a homicide victim whose body was discovered in the water near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel in May 1976. In partnership with Virginia-based DNA technology company Parabon NanoLabs, genetic material recovered from the crime scene was used to generate precise trait predictions […]