Roanoke

Bees and other pollinators ensure the survival of 90% of flowering plants and one in three bites of food we eat depends on them. On May 12 Roanoke will join a half dozen other cities in Virginia to celebrate the insect and pledge to work toward its survival.

Roanoke is getting a boost of federal money to replace a problem bridge.

Governor Glenn Youngkin stopped at a Roanoke elementary school Monday to sign several bills. The bills are designed to help students and adults with disabilities.

Doctor Cynthia Morrow, director of the Roanoke City-Alleghany Health District, says a lot has changed since those early days of the pandemic.

Parents who have children with a disability often struggle to find the right type of therapy to help their kids. Sometimes, just a few weeks of intensive therapy can help children and their parents go on to make more progress at home. That’s what happened for two sisters with a rare neurological condition. They each traveled with their family from Pittsburgh, where they live, to Roanoke to work with therapists at the neuromotor clinic at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute.

In the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s, vital parts of Roanoke’s historically Black Gainsboro neighborhood were ripped out and replaced with infrastructure projects like Interstate 581 and the Roanoke Civic Center.

Bob Wilkin was presented with his father’s Congressional Medal of Honor when he was just seven years old. But, he lost touch with it over the years.

The stretch through Botetourt and Craig Counties uses existing rail beds and shared roadways

Trust House was founded in 1970 as an emergency shelter and crisis hotline

The Western Virginia Water Authority conducted long-term testing from October to December in a number of locations on the Roanoke River and its branches near Elliston in Montgomery County.