On Tuesday evening, Peter Macedo, a political newcomer and the owner of Blacksburg Bagels, had a slight lead over Michael Sutphin, the town’s vice mayor, who has been on the town council since 2012.

Michael Barber was elected to a fifth term as mayor. The three available seats on Christiansburg’s town council will be filled by Tanya Hockett, Christine Waltz and Beth Umberger, according to ...

State Sen. Ghazala Hashmi wins the contest for lieutenant governor and Jay Jones bests incumbent Attorney General Jason Miyares.

Just 46 votes separate the two candidates for mayor. But election workers must still tally more than 2,000 provisional votes, most of them from precincts with sizeable student populations.

It’s tempting for commentators to attribute the breadth of this victory to just one cause — the unpopularity of President Donald Trump in Virginia. He certainly played an outsized part in the ...

Republican incumbents walked away with four Hill City races Tuesday night, but the treasurer’s race remains neck-and-neck and likely won’t be decided until next week.

The Category 1 hurricane’s fingerprints were on the deadly and destructive flooding 40 years ago this week, but the atmospheric setup that yielded the worst river flooding on record at Roanoke and ...

The candidates — incumbent Cheryl Facciani and challenger Ryan White — are separated by just a few dozen votes.

The monument, which is going to a new location, is notable because it’s one of the few markers that makes a reference to Reconstruction.

Mike Carter and Nick Mitchell will continue to serve on the board, and J. Mike Meredith ran unopposed for his first term.

Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger will enter office with a trifecta, with the governor’s seat, the state Senate and House of Delegates all under the same party. She will be the first Democratic ...

In November 1985 I was working at Roanoke Memorial Hospital in the psychology department which was housed in the Rehab, across Jefferson St. from the main hospital. From the upper floors, you could ...