In 1587, 20 years before Jamestown, English settlers founded a colony on Roanoke Island in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This wasn't some hardened outpost of soldiers. It was families ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Phillip W. Evans, president of the First Colony Foundation, which announced Tuesday findings about the colonists who vanished from Roanoke Island in the late 16th century.

In true Roanoke fashion, the Arbor Day Foundation has named the city a 2024 Tree City USA for planting, growing, and maintaining trees.

You'll see some new trees in some of our Roanoke parks. Although small in size now, they share a powerful message of preventing gun violence.

A tree was ripped from the ground near the corner of 4th Street and Elm Avenue in Roanoke Friday morning, damaging a home nearby.

A Roanoke man has been charged with drunken driving and manslaughter in connection with a single-vehicle wreck that killed a 22-year-old woman and injured two other passengers.

A missing 17-year-old whose disappearance prompted a CODI alert on Thursday has been found dead.

WASHINGTON — The Roanoke City Police have located a missing teen diagnosed with Autism. Virginia State Police canceled its missing person alert just before 10 p.m. Saturday.

Three-month-old Arieanna Day went missing from her Roanoke home nearly five years ago. To this day, the community is still searching for answers.

The Arbor Day Foundation named Roanoke a 2024 Tree City USA in honor of its commitment to plant, grow, and maintain trees to benefit its community.