Roanoke
A city in Virginia, coextensive with its county-equivalent — population 99,058 as of 2020.
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20 hours agoGrooves & Grub Ep. 1: Bristol Rhythm & Roots Preview, Live Music and Late-Night Pizza
What do a 25th-anniversary music festival, a 50-acre nonprofit paradise and a giant slice of late-night pizza have in common? They are all setting the stage for Grooves and Grub, a brand-new Southwest Virginia culture podcast powered by Cardinal News! Join your host, Tad Dickens,…
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September 9Tech Briefs: Animatronics, AI and more at Virginia Tech’s Music + Technology Festival
Plus: Virginia Tech professors weigh in on Meta settlement ramifications. Roanoke College teams with Google to offer free AI training, career certificates.
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September 9Phillips: Tobacco commission investment, local leadership and Southern Virginia’s emerging economic success story
Earlier investments are paying big dividends, and the tobacco commission remains an important partner in building what comes next.
Local Business
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3 hours agoHow trout fishers in Virginia are using FOIA to beat the competition
The Department of Wildlife Resources receives approximately 700 public records requests related to stocking every year.
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4 hours ago350 years ago, Nathaniel Bacon held the Virginia legislature at gunpoint. Why do we honor him today?
This year marks the anniversary of a dark and complicated period in Virginia history: A civil war known as Bacon's Rebellion that was led by a man who advocated genocide of Native Americans.
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4 hours agoVirginia’s transportation agency says five years of data shows tow operators are getting the interstate flowing again more quickly after crashes involving commercial vehicles.
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Roanoke by the numbers
- Area
- 42.52 sq mi (110.13 km²), 0.33 sq mi water
- Median age
- 38.3
- Households
- 43,575
- Persons per household
- 2.2
- Median household income
- $55,378
- Median house value
- $190,500
- Office
- DIRECTOR OF PLANNING, BUILDING & DEVELOPMENT
- Address
- 215 CHURCH AVE SW, ROANOKE, VA 24011