Half-way through 2023, Roanoke Valley home sales are lower in number than the year before — but the average sales price keeps rising. For the first five months of the year, the number of valley homes sold was down about 19% from 2022 while the average sales price rose about 5%. Realtors say while the…… Continue Reading
Updated on July 1st: The victim has been identified as Christopher Illes Csorba, 33 years old of Roanoke. The cause of death is still under investigation. Mr. Csorba was last seen alive in the area of Walnut Avenue in Roanoke. The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office encourages anyone with information on recent interactions with Mr. Csorba,…… Continue Reading
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court’s ruling last month about the admissions policy at an elite public high school in Virginia may provide a vehicle for the U.S. Supreme Court to flesh out the intended scope of its ruling Thursday banning affirmative action in college admissions. The Thomas Jefferson High School for…… Continue Reading
Hundreds of new laws take effect July 1, including House Bill 1702, the “Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act”, which requires landlords to give renters advance notice before raising the rent. WFIR’s Denise Allen Membreno reports. The post New law taking effect requires advance notice for rent hikes first appeared on News/Talk 960-AM & FM-107.3…… Continue Reading
Hundreds of new laws take effect July 1, including House Bill 1702, the “Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act”, which requires landlords to give renters advance notice before raising the rent. WFIR’s Denise Allen Membreno reports. The post New law to take effect requires advance notice for rent hikes first appeared on News/Talk 960-AM &…… Continue Reading
The death of a former Olympic medalist and track star last month who was expecting at the time has put the spotlight on the risks to expectant mothers caused by several conditions related to high blood pressure. A local OBG-YN physician and associate professor at the Virginia Tech-Carilion School of Medicine spoke this week with…… Continue Reading
Many workers in Virginia who lost their jobs after citing religious grounds in refusing COVID vaccines may now have stronger grounds to seek legal recourse, the result of a unanimously ruling Thursday from the U.S. Supreme Court. The case in question has nothing directly to do with COVID; the justices ruled in favor of a…… Continue Reading
The 6 to 3 majority conservative US Supreme Court has struck down the use of Affirmative Action in higher education as a way to gain admittance. The Supreme Court ruling today came after lawsuits filed by Asian students who felt they were being discriminated against on college admission policies due to Affirmative Action that gave…… Continue Reading
State health and environmental officials say all that smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to pose real health threats to many people across the Roanoke Valley. The air pollution levels often vary by the hour, but at times, they remain more than 10 times higher than World Health Organization standards for what is called particulate matter…… Continue Reading
A Roanoke city report says residents need to take quick action to stave off worst devastation from climate change. In conjunction with the online news source, The Roanoke Rambler, WFIR’s Taylor Sherrill has the story: Climate Action Plan WRAP 6-29 For more stories like this from the Roanoke Rambler CLICK HERE. The post Quick action needed…… Continue Reading