Roanoke area veterans and friends gathered at the Roanoke Valley War Memorial in Freedom Plaza in May 2022 for a Memorial Day ceremony hosted by the Roanoke Valley Veterans Council.

The city of Roanoke has contracted with Environmental Quality Resources, a Maryland and Virginia-based contractor, to construct Virginia’s first in-river whitewater park.

Drakar Rawlings has been sentenced to nearly 30 years after he was held responsible for a child found with a gun in their backpack at Orange Elementary School.