Politics Disparate Roanoke City Council Candidates Find Unity in Bashing Evans Spring Plan None of the candidates has been elected to City Council before, and many found common ground in attacking the status quo.
Business Former Local Roots Employees Await Payment After Roanoke Restaurant Closed Abruptly The Grandin Village restaurant is awaiting a federal tax credit in order to make employees whole, according to a former owner.
Racial justice At Roanoke's Historically Black Old Lick Cemetery, New Caretakers Confront Old Sins In recent years, a group of churchgoers has been tending to the cemetery, a "gaping wound" of Roanoke's urban renewal history.
Business Local Roots, Pioneer in Roanoke's Farm-to-Table Restaurant Scene, Closes The restaurant, which first opened in 2007, made no public announcement about the sudden closure.
Investigation 'I Don't Have Any Confidence': Here's Why Transportation Museum Board Resignations Leave the Nonprofit Reeling Former board members cited concerns over the direction and financial health of Roanoke's Virginia Museum of Transportation.
Education As Roanoke School District Aims To Limit Cell Phones, Governor Orders Statewide Policies A Roanoke school district group recommends different policies around cell phone use for K-8 students and high school students.
Neighborhoods Claytor Clinic Gains State Historical Marker, But Future of Gainsboro Property Unclear Gainsboro's historic Claytor Clinic has gained statewide recognition, but breakdowns over city negotiations leave the property's fate uncertain.
City Hall 'It Makes Us Look Like Fools': Riverdale Developer Urged Roanoke Council Not To 'Fire' City Manager, Emails Show Other Roanoke developers expressed mixed feelings about Bob Cowell’s departure, with a couple saying it was time the city manager moved on.
City Hall Roanoke City Council Votes To Raise Its Pay, Which Will Nearly Double By 2027 The action was a change from a last-minute meeting Friday, when City Council voted to institute a full $20,000 pay bump next year.
Politics Roanoke Treasurer Runs For City Council As Independent, Jackson Drops Out Officially Evelyn Powers is running for City Council as an independent, while Jamaal Jackson dropped out Tuesday, hours before polls closed in a Democratic primary.
City Hall Roanoke Council Picks Former Member Fitzpatrick To Take Over Priddy's Term Bev Fitzpatrick served three terms on Council beginning in the 1980s and was later executive director of the Virginia Museum of Transportation.
Politics Roanoke City Voter Registrar To Retire Before General Election Andrew Cochran, who's served as Roanoke's voter registrar since 2013, says he will retire in September.
Housing City To Repeal, Replace Zoning Reforms After Roanoke Sued Over Single-Family Housing City Council voted to begin the process of repealing and replacing in “similar substance” a raft of zoning changes the city adopted in March.
City Hall Roanoke Council Names Former Portsmouth City Manager As Interim After Cowell's Departure Lydia Pettis Patton will succeed Bob Cowell in an interim capacity over the next four months, Roanoke leaders announced
City Hall Roanoke To Pay Departed City Manager Cowell One Year’s Salary, Benefits, Per Contract Bob Cowell's contract says the city must pay him a year's salary and benefits under a "no cause termination" clause.
Politics Embattled Roanoke Council Candidate Could Still Be Elected As Democratic Nominee Despite last week announcing his withdrawal from the race, Jamaal Jackson has not given formal notice to elections officials about the June 18 contest.
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Politics Roanoke Council Candidate Drops Out Weeks Before Primary Amid Review of 'Questionable' Voter Signatures A week after city officials received a complaint alleging an illegal campaign act, Jamaal Jackson said he is dropping out.