The number of active COVID-19 cases in the Roanoke area continues to jump. And health officials fear it will get even higher in the weeks after Thanksgiving.
Tree-sitters in the southwestern Virginia woods, protesting the Mountain Valley Pipeline for more than 800 days, have been ordered by a judge to leave their encampment by Monday.
Virginia's statewide positivity rate currently sits around 5%. But, it's closer to 9% in certain areas of southwestern Virginia, especially those localities near the Tennessee border.
