Luke Weir

The lawsuit claims that negligence resulted in 30-year-old Amber Nolan's "premature death" two years ago.

A nationwide challenge to try a week without driving is meant as an exercise in empathy, advocates say.

Subcommittees are stalled and communication with the city council is lacking, said members of the advisory board during a meeting at Gainsboro Library.

Altogether, the total housing stock in Roanoke is valued at more than $7.3 billion, according to the most recent housing profile.

One of the two commission members who was absent on Monday said she might have voted yes to the proposed zoning amendments.

With a lawsuit filed by Medmont subdivision residents this week, Roanoke City Council is now being sued over two different zoning-related citizen complaints.

With two of its members absent on Monday, Roanoke’s planning commission flipped a previous vote by deciding 3-2 against recommending a set of proposed zoning amendments to the city council.

“The effects that we see project from this are going to be incremental, slow and very moderate,” said Acting Assistant City Manager Chris Chittum. “But over the long term, this will have benefits to Roanoke.”

Two members of Roanoke City Council who are campaigning against each other for mayor exchanged words about a grant-funded public awareness campaign.

The company that owns the salvage rights to the Titanic is undertaking its first expedition to the wreckage of the ship in 14 years, and those involved in the mission said they have both heavy hearts and lofty goals for the trip. RMS Titanic Inc., a Georgia-based firm, holds the legal rights to salvage the wreck of the ship, which sank in the Atlantic Ocean in 1912. The company’s first expedition to the site since 2010 launched from Providence, Rhode Island, on Friday.