Featured Slideshows

Illustration of blue and red abstract flowers with pink blooms beside text reading "Perimenopause: A Season of Change.

Perimenopause: A Season of Change

There is a moment women reach when something begins to feel different. They may find themselves wondering, “What is happening to me?”
Illustrated banner reading "Lessons in Legacy" beside a blue globe and a vintage photo of two smiling women in overalls.

Lessons In Legacy

Education is a calling for many, but for these Roanoke Valley families, it is a multigenerational legacy rooted in service and commitment to students.
Yellow banner reading "Inspiration, Perspiration, and Transformation" beside two photos of a woman with teal hair.

Inspiration, Perspiration, and Transformation

Four women share their stories of how they took control of their health and happiness with a gastric sleeve or bypass surgery.
A stethoscope lies on a glossy blue surface beside the bold text "Where Will the Patients Go?

Where Will the Patients Go?

Virginia hospitals and clinics are nervous with good reasons these days. Medicaid and Medicare are under fire.
The Roanoker Top Docs 2026

Top Docs 2026

We’re excited to present this year’s Top Doctors, recognized by the colleagues who know their work best.
The Roanoker May June 2026 Best Of Roanoke Editors Note

2026 Best Of Roanoke Winners

This year’s Best of Roanoke Readers’ Pollis officially our biggest and best yet!
It’s a Blue blue Christmas at the corner of Colony Court and Colony Lane.

Web Exclusive: More Photos from Our Christmas Lights Preview

Here’s a look at just a few spots to get you ready for the season. Think your holiday decorations are better? Send us your photos for a chance top have them featured online or in a future issue!
Locker room corridor with a lit VT logo on a stone wall, flanked by signs reading Trust, United, Loyalty.

Places You Never Go — Virginia Tech’s Locker Room (Circa 2012)

It is the inner sanctum of Virginia Tech Football. It’s where players contemplate. Coaches motivate. And, if it’s a good season we hope for, winners celebrate. Includes photos not seen in our September/October issue!
Husband and wife team John and Theresa Dorlini have taken a sturdy ranch with "good bones" and transformed it into a home distinctively their own.

“Good Bones” – Ranch Reborn Under Design Couple

John and Theresa Dorlini – architect and interior designer respectively – took a sturdy four-bedroom, three-bath, 1960s ranch and made it distinctively their own.
Adam Cohen and Steven Strauss of Structures.

Passivhaus National Groundbreakers are in Roanoke

Adam Cohen and Steven Strauss of Stuctures Design Build are not just near-evangelical about the “green” Passivhaus design, they are also actively putting up structures employing its tenets.

Departments

A young child with brown hair in a gray shirt and navy polka-dot skirt paints colorful swirls on a white wall, under the words "Living with Kid Art.
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Living with Kid Art

Get great tips on how to display your kids’ artwork at home.

Painted wood statue holding a teacup, a chandelier-lit dining room, and a wood-paneled sitting room.
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The House on the Hill

Stewardship of the signature structure on the city side of Mill Mountain is in the very conscientious hands of Drs.

Four-panel collage of downtown apartment interiors: unfinished room, empty living room, bathroom, and white kitchen.
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On the Rise

The renovations to create new living spaces continue unabated.