National leaders tell UVa sororities to avoid frat bid night
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) _ Sororities at the University of Virginia have been told to stay away from fraternity recruitment events scheduled Saturday. The sororities are ...
Va. Senate panel OKs tax break for bullion buyers
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) _ A Virginia Senate committee is proposing to exempt gold, silver and platinum bullion from the state sales tax. The exemption would ...
UVa. hires security firm to guide students to safety
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) _ The University of Virginia has contracted with an international security firm to guide vulnerable students to safety in Charlottesville neighborhoods near ...
State police: Hit-and-run crashes are illegal
In the past two months, five pedestrians and one bicyclist have been struck and killed in eight hit-and-run traffic crashes across the Commonwealth. Police say ...
Partial lane closure scheduled for Valley View entrance to I-581
Today from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., a partial lane closure will be in place on the southbound ramp to Interstate 581 from Valley View ...
Two escape, cat dies in Roanoke house fire
From Roanoke Fire-EMS: On Wednesday, January 28, 2015, Roanoke Fire-EMS responded to a fire in the 1900 block of Carter Rd. 1:25pm. Two people were ...
Mill Mountain Zoo’s new executive director talks about priorities
Mill Mountain Zoo’s Board of Directors has announced that they have hired a new Executive Director. Lucy A. Cook, formerly of Buffalo, New York, joins ...
Endangered missing child alert issued for Christiansburg teen
THE VIRGINIA STATE POLICE AND THE VIRGINIA MISSING CHILDREN CLEARINGHOUSE HAS ISSUED AN ENDANGERED MISSING CHILD MEDIA ALERT ON BEHALF OF THE CHRISTIANSBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT ...
New Walmart markets open
A day after the Norfolk Southern bombshell ... some positive news on the employment front as two Walmart Neighborhood Market stores cut the ribbon this ...
Huckabee talks about presidential run
He was in Roanoke signing copies of his new book yesterday ... you hear him every morning on the "Huckabee Report" ... former Arkansas governor ...
Leaders say Roanoke is well-positioned to recover from coming NS job losses
The Norfolk Southern announcement that it will move hundreds of jobs from Roanoke to Atlanta and Norfolk is both an economic and psychological setback to ...
Virginia’s jobless rate falls to lowest since October 2008
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) _ Virginia's jobless rate fell to 4.8 percent in December, marking the state's lowest unemployment rate since October 2008. The state's seasonally ...
Va. Senate rejects proposal for voter registration by party
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) _ The Virginia Senate has narrowly defeated a proposal to allow voter registration by political party. The measure was rejected Tuesday on ...
Va. Senate panel votes to leave gay-marriage ban in law
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) _ A state Senate committee isn't ready to take Virginia's overturned gay-marriage ban out of the state constitution. On an 8-7 party-line ...
House of Delegates panel kills Va. minimum wage proposal
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) _ A Republican-led House committee has killed a proposal to raise Virginia's minimum wage. The House Committee on Commerce and Labor voted ...
DOE views Berglund Center energy upgrades
The City of Roanoke and the Berglund Center received some Federal recognition for renovations that have reduced energy costs by a six-figure sum annually...WFIR's Gene ...
Norfolk Southern to close Roanoke office building, relocate employees
From Norfolk Southern: ROANOKE, Va., January 27, 2015 – Norfolk Southern today announced that it will close its Roanoke office building at 110 Franklin Road ...
How to make City Market building better?
The foundation that runs the City Market Building in downtown Roanoke is looking to tweak its operation ... with input from food vendors ... as ...
Law school assistant dean: appeals court ruling may tell McDonnell “we thin...
A George Mason University School of Law assistant dean says an appeals court decision to hear former Governor McDonnell's appeal may have impacts far beyond ...
Changes made to Roanoke’s Citizen Alert Notification system
Roanoke City residents have been able to sign up to receive emergency alerts on their landlines and cell phones for some time. But now, Roanoke ...
