Jai’meka Michelle Austin, a Roanoke woman at the center of a scheme to create fake small businesses that obtained loans from a pandemic relief program, pleaded guilty Wednesday. Austin ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ/Gray News) – A teenage boy in Virginia was assaulted at random by a stranger while he was out on a routine neighborhood run with his girlfriend. The 15-year-old boy, whose ...

Though many may not know it, the horrifying events of the 2005 film The Exorcism of Emily Rose were not entirely fictional, but rather were based on the actual experiences of a young German woman ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Wildfires forced a mandatory evacuation Sunday in ...

ROANOKE, Va. – Helene was a Category 4 major hurricane with maximum winds of 140 mph. However, this storm illustrated how damaging a hurricane of this strength can be while impacting multiple ...

As hurricane forecasters begin to put together their first outlooks for the 2025 hurricane season, an important aspect that helps form a forecast are what are known as analog years. Analog years refer ...

When a major hurricane, flood or wildfire hits, FEMA starts working on a disaster only when requested by the state government. The agency organizes thousands of federal workers who help in ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The National Hurricane Center on Wednesday released its tropical cyclone report for Hurricane Helene. The major storm made landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida on Sept.

New River Trail State Park is steadily reopening sections of its trail that were significantly damaged by Hurricane Helene. Park staff, contractors and volunteers have been working diligently to ...