Recent crackdowns on Roanoke restaurateurs have resulted in an influx of owed taxes to the city, plea deals and dropped ...

The lawsuits could shed further light on a drama that gripped Roanoke city hall last year, when claims of a toxic workplace ...

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Battle lines are being drawn over who will fill the remaining two years of Roanoke Mayor Joe Cobb’s vacant City Council seat.

Conrad Claytor, a retired podiatrist who lives in Salem, said he renewed talks with family members about the clinic property after the city unveiled a draft of the hub plan this spring. PHOTO BY HENRI ...

The Harrison Museum of African American Culture, as seen above at Center in the Square, plans to leave its downtown home for the burgeoning Melrose Plaza in Northwest. PHOTO BY HENRI GENDREAU FOR THE ...

The science of falling things smashed our street. Now it plants acorns in the Carolina clay where the red mud welcomes every ...

Roanoke property owners are seeing an average 8 percent increase in their real estate tax bills this year, a historically ...

Stephanie Moon Reynolds, a longtime city clerk who is finishing her first term on Roanoke City Council, is trying to notch a historic doubleheader by becoming Roanoke’s first woman mayor, and the ...

I’m excited to announce that The Rambler is hiring a Managing Editor to advance our journalism and support our growth as a hyper-local and investigative digital media outlet. This journalist will be a ...

Roanoke City intends to seize a strip of land that has become a hangout spot and site of littering at the gateway to Southeast Roanoke. The city’s planned seizure marks the second time Roanoke has ...

The parking garage beside the Amtrak platform has been closed since April, when city officials deemed the structure unsafe.