Local Media

A complete list of all local Roanoke Valley media outlets, including television, radio, newspapers, magazines and tabloids.

Roanoke Valley Stats

From population data and local tax rates to where to call to get your TV and internet connected, here’s your number-by-number guide to the Roanoke Valley.

Tourism, The Natural Way

The Howard family: From left: Garrett, Ben, Dad Landon, Mom Lynne and Jaclyn.

Roanoke Valley’s new CVB Exec Landon Howard recently took his family out to discover the Blue Ridge Mountains. He’s determined to get millions of others to do the same.

Roanoke is a Great Place To…

Lauren and Whit Ellerman walk near their home on Jefferson Street with Gracie (white coat) and Atticus. Lauren Ellerman’s sentiment: “Family or no family, we are all welcome.”

A non-family-raising 30-something faces the hard questions: Is “great place to raise a family” actually true? And how about “great place to not raise a family”?

Newcomers Guide to Arts & Culture 2012

Cyrus Pace of the Jefferson Center (background) has high praise for area school Christmas programs: “Imagine the teacher who tries to figure out how to organize the whole school to do a holiday program.”

The arts scene in Roanoke is an eclectic one, ranging from quaint hole-in-the-wall galleries to the skyline-defining Taubman Museum of Art, and with lots in between.

Newcomers Guide to Education

Middle school teacher Samantha Von Hoene says Roanoke City Schools benefit from the diversity of its student population.

What makes the school systems in and around the Roanoke Valley great? Who better to ask than the people who have experienced the excellence first-hand?