Students in Martinsville completed their first day of the school year from home on Monday, as school will be 100 percent virtual until new COVID-19 cases in the area slow down.

The students and the driver will be required to wear a mask on board, and there will only be one student per seat unless they’re coming from the same home.

Events begin at 8 a.m. on Saturday, August 15.

Keisha Christley allegedly embezzled money from the preschool at St. Marks’ Lutheran Church on Franklin Road in southwest Roanoke.

A 16-year-old learns how to paint with extra time on his hands. He now has several pieces on display at the Moneta/SML Library.

Governors and state labor department officials around the country are scrambling to figure out if it is feasible to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order to partially extend enhanced unemployment insurance for millions of Americans struggling to find work in the pandemic-scarred economy.

This Academy is now available free of tuition for high school aged Roanoke County residents.

The chance of an earthquake of magnitude 3 or higher is 57 percent, and it is most likely that as few as zero or as many as 57 such earthquakes may occur in the case that the sequence is re-invigorated by a larger aftershock.

The Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority has launched a new program online that aims to prevent substance abuse among middle school-age students.

James Madison University has suspended fall sports competition.