Protesters used a giant plywood duck to block the entrance to a construction area for the Mountain Valley Pipeline.
FICTION: An engaging mystery about a journalist who investigates the disappearance of a student activist in Hong Kong. "On Java Road" by Lawrence Osborne; Hogarth (256 pages, $27) ——— Lawrence Osborne's fiction tracks the checkered fortunes of strangers in strange lands. Some of his peripatetic protagonists are culture-shocked, others try to fit in, but all end up out of their depth. In the ...
As Virginian politicians declared their distaste or support for the Supreme Court ruling on Friday, about 200 protestors took to the streets in front of the Poff Federal Building in Roanoke.
JAMAICA, Va. — They arrived later than planned but when the convoy of big-rig trucks, RVs and cars turned into the parking lot of Virginia Motor Speedway off U.S. 17 early Sunday afternoon, they drew cheers, whoops and hollers from several hundred people who turned out to show their support for the “Freedom Convoy” movement bound for Washington, D.C.
The Saturday night shooting in Portland, Oregon, that left one woman dead and five people injured started with a confrontation between an armed homeowner and armed protesters, according to a Portland Police Bureau news release issued Sunday.
Police began arresting protesters Friday in a bid to break the three-week, traffic-snarling siege of Canada's capital by hundreds of truckers …
Sparked by a group of truckers who drove into the heart of Ottawa to protest new vaccine and testing rules, other protests sprouted over the weekend in major cities across Canada.
As the Capitol attack unfolded one year ago, nine AP photographers shot hundreds of photos that documented the shocking events. Here are 30 of those images.
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., left his home on Richmond's North Side early on Monday afternoon with a sense of urgency because of a meeting planned that evening at the U.S. Capitol on an issue that he cares about deeply - voting rights.
The violent 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville was a sickening and awful ordeal that no community should have to endure. The sight of neo-Nazis and white supremacists marching at the University of Virginia and clashing in the streets with counterprotesters won’t soon fade from memory. While no amount of money can bring back Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old woman killed that day, or ...
I usually find myself either near-totally agreeing or disagreeing with most op-eds. William Fizer’s Nov. 29 essay on voter apathy ("American a…
Nine protesters suing several Fredericksburg and Stafford County officials have agreed to an undisclosed monetary settlement.
Elizabeth Sines is one of nine plaintiffs alleging in a federal lawsuit that key organizers and participants of the rally conspired to come to Charlottesville and commit acts of racist violence.
The first gubernatorial debate between Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin Thursday was a combative standoff over political differences as much as personal jabs.
What was most surprising was how meekly Robert E. Lee surrendered.
Mountain Valley Pipeline has filed a subpoena with Facebook, asking it for the identities of the people who set up the Appalachians Against Pipelines page.
DAVID HUNGATE PHOTOS, SPECIAL TO THE ROANOKE TIMES Two protesters chained their arms together through the tracks of a bulldozer in protest of …
Held in eastern Montgomery County off U.S. 460, the protest was the largest of its kind to temporarily delay construction of the pipeline.
With civil unrest astir in the country from which they fled, some Cuban residents of Roanoke said they hope drastic change soon befalls their …
Using a 1999 Ford Crown Victoria painted with the words “Old Hills & Old Folks RESIST,” three protesters blocked access to a Mountain Vall…
By the end of the month, Virginia will no longer be under a state of emergency due to COVID-19, and as a result, a state law banning masks will go back into full effect.
By the end of the month, Virginia will no longer be under a state of emergency due to COVID-19, and as a result, a state law banning masks will go back into full effect.
We should have known this day was coming, because they knew this day was coming.
The original opponent of the Robert E. Lee statue issued a stern prophesy after the monument was erected in 1890.
Hundreds of people, including families, students and children, gathered at Richmond’s Monroe Park on Wednesday to march in solidarity with Palestinians.