Newport News City Council approved an ordinance Tuesday to deal with blight in the city.

It’s still picture perfect along the Virginia Beach Oceanfront, but officials say Hurricane Erin could change conditions in the coming days.

Congresswoman Jen Kiggans (R-Va. Beach) says she and the rest of the House delegation representing Hampton Roads will fight to maintain appropriated funds for NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility and Langley Research Center in the 2026 federal budget. https://www.wavy.com/news/kiggans-will-fight-to-maintain-wallops-langley-funding/

A former City of Suffolk attorney was arrested on child sex crime charges. https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/former-suffolk-attorney-arrested-on-child-sex-crime-charges/

Friday afternoon, Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew and Mayor Phillip Jones discussed gun violence in the city during a press conference.

More changes are coming to Norfolk International Airport as one of its runways permanently closed Friday.

East Carolina archaeologists uncovered the remains of four shipwrecks dating back to the 18th century off the coast of North Carolina.

Virginia Beach Police need your help. They want to find the person who went around slashing tires earlier this week. According to police, the crime happened on Aug. 11 in a parking lot at 544 Newtown Road. There were eight vehicles damaged.

Two men were arrested on Thursday after a search warrant led to a drug seizure in Mathews County.

Two people and one dog were displaced after a fire Thursday afternoon on Adams Circle in Hampton.

ne cat has not been accounted for following a house fire Thursday afternoon in York County.

Personnel from the York County Department of Fire and Life Safety were dispatched to the report of a residential structure fire around 4 p.m. in the 200 block of Heavens Way.

WAVY's Michael Rinker reports.

A man who became agitated, "unruly" and yelled racist slurs while on a Breeze Airways flight from Norfolk International Airport to Los Angeles Wednesday was removed from the plane after it was diverted to the Grand Junction Regional Airport in Colorado, according to police.

FBI officials told WAVY's Nexstar affiliate in Grand Junction, KREX, that David Leroy Carver Jr., 47, of Los Angeles, was arrested in connection to the incident, with the investigation into it ongoing. The U.S. Attorney's Office for Colorado said he has been charged with interfering with a flight crew.