PHOTO BY HENRI GENDREAU FOR THE ROANOKE RAMBLER. Want to see your photo in our Happenings events calendar? Send us your best ...

I was born in the Dutch Republic in the year of our Lord, 1654. My earliest memory is of gripping a rain-bitten wood rail and ...

not to change at all, or if so imperceptibly. Two dozen times if once I vowed to stop by the fence. I believed we’d both ...

The city failed to budget enough money for youth programs run by The Foundry, leading to discord and lost revenue, an audit ...

What are Ramblings? Ramblings are a collection of short items that have caught our attention for one reason or another.

Report For America has selected The Rambler as a 2025 host newsroom to bring a segregation reporter to Roanoke.

The final Sunday service was held at Trinity United Methodist Church Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023, in Roanoke. Transforming churches into residential properties is becoming a trend in Roanoke, where at least ...

Officer Jacob Underwood became the Roanoke Police Department's first LGBTQ liaison this spring. PHOTO BY LINDSEY HULL FOR THE ROANOKE RAMBLER As a child, Jacob Underwood would run around his house ...

An aerial view of the Roanoke Civic Center from ca. 1972. The home of Kathleen Ross, who was among a few residents who refused to move when the city took land in Northeast Roanoke, can be seen in the ...

Star City Compost co-owner Davey Stewards uses a front-end loader to transfer garden waste for composting at the company's facility in the Roanoke Centre for Industry & Technology off Orange Avenue.

A home in the 400 block of 8th St. SE, in Roanoke's Belmont-Fallon neighborhood, was transferred from the city's land bank, run by Total Action for Progress, to Habitat for Humanity for restoration.

The Harrison Museum of African American Culture, as seen above at Center in the Square, plans to leave its downtown home for the burgeoning Melrose Plaza in Northwest. PHOTO BY HENRI GENDREAU FOR THE ...