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Alice Kassens Roanoke College photo Retailers may breath a sigh of relief as the latest Roanoke College survey focused on holiday spending by Virginia consumer slows a slight overall dip – but t...

Culture Calendar graphic From the WFIR News room this is your Culture Calendar – With a look at some of the local events coming up this weekend and in the near future. Sponsored by the Roanoke C...

The day after Thanksgiving maybe Black Friday for retailers, but for plumbers it's Brown Friday, a busy day full of clogged pipes caused by grease and greasy food. WFIR's Denise Allen Membreno has mor...

  Smithfield Foods this morning dropped off close to 38 thousand pounds of meat to Feeding Southwest Virginia in Salem ahead of this Saturday’s Commonwealth Clash football game between UVA ...

Linda Kay Simmons Smith Mountain Lake novelist Linda Kay Simmons made news recently when she was scammed out of fifteen thousand dollars she paid by bitcoin. (Scammers told her on the phone there were...

The Virginia State Police obtained 10 warrants for a missing high school football coach Monday, November 24, 2025. Travis L. Turner, 46, of Appalachia, VA is wanted on five counts of possession of chi...

Photo: Dr. Zachary Law Facebook Noting that Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger in Virginia ran in part on clean energy solutions – and lowering utility bills – one organization is hoping to...

ROANOKE, Va. – Nelson Deras-Pineda, 43, an illegal immigrant from Honduras with a history of driving under the influence and fleeing the scenes of traffic accidents, as well as entering the Unit...

Ricky Rahne( Photo from ODU Athletics) Old Dominion Head Football Coach Ricky Rahne spoke to reporters recently about whether or not he has talked with Virginia Tech football James Franklin about join...

Chevy Equinox – no engine – will replace the ’88 Nova. G Marrano photos Something you don’t see every day – a car being lifted out of the 4th floor of a room at LewisGale...