When executives from Austrian wellness company RINGANA arrived in the Roanoke Valley, they weren't looking for nostalgia. They were looking for the right place to build the company's North American ...

Summer's not slowing down in the Star City: we've got theater, trivia, goth nights, a country concert under the lights, and one of the country's biggest disc golf tournaments landing right in our ...

This is so far the second-driest water year on record for the region—with rainfall tracking at 43 percent below ...

Happenings: The Roanoke Events Calendar. Week of 7/22 to 7/30. This stretch has a little bit of everything: a sold-out outlaw ...

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Transportation Why These 10 Miles Keep Shutting Down the Valley Just after 7 a.m. on a recent weekday, traffic on Interstate 81 in Roanoke County does what it has done for years: it stops.

Social Issues Growing Old in Roanoke Roanoke isn’t just getting older. It is growing older while the workforce, caregivers, and family networks that support older adults are becoming smaller.

As summer settles across the Roanoke Valley, many readers are building their seasonal reading lists for lake days, mountain overlooks, and quiet afternoons with a good book. For author Jennifer Brody, ...

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In a video interview with The Roanoke Rambler, Hagen warned that the uniform statewide rollout and low tax yields from the Spanberger compromise, which limits the local tax chunk to just 1.5% to 3% on ...

From a transformative new bridge to new lives for community hubs, a wave of multimillion-dollar infrastructure projects is fundamentally reshaping Roanoke's recreational, cultural, and health ...