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The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search Wednesday for a Virginia man who fell overboard early Monday morning while on a Carnival Cruise ship headed back to Norfolk.

An effort to legalize sports gambling in North Carolina has cleared what could be one of its last remaining legislative hurdles in the state Senate.

Family members, loved ones and members of the community came together at Neptune's Park in Virginia Beach, Va. on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 to remember the 12 people who lost their lives when a gunman opened fire in a municipal building on Friday, May 31, 2019. The family members and friends of the victims use the phrase “we fly together” as a way to stay strong and remember their loved ones and doves were released to represent each life lost.

The Veterans Band Aid Music Festival will be held Friday and Saturday at the Holiday Trav-L-Park. Tickets range from $35 to $65 for one and two-day general admission.

Jason Friedman, a Virginia Beach native and five other team members, started AdvisorFinder, an online marketplace for finding a financial adviser.

The Hampton Roads-based certified development company hit the $1 billion mark in total project financing and has assisted small businesses in creating or retaining 9,399 jobs.

Archive photos from The Virginian-Pilot coverage of Hurricane Isabel after it struck coastal Virginia and North Carolina in 2003.

Family members have been fighting for the passage of state legislation that will provide them and others affected by mass shootings with financial compensation. The city is preparing to spend millions of dollars to build a memorial park in honor of the 5/31 victims, while some relatives say they still need help dealing with the trauma.

“I’ve been trying forever but I’m never able to get it accomplished ,” Walker, 40, said earlier this month after the Norfolk housing waitlist closed again.

Police say preliminary investigation revealed the mother and child were at the self-checkout station when an unknown woman “walked up, took the child out of the cart and attempted to walk out of the store.”

Norfolk’s community-oriented approach to dealing with water management and flood control has earned the city a national award.

Teens were schooled on the dangers of distracted driving by spending time in a virtual reality-distracted and drunk driving simulator.

Around 700 people were in attendance at the first Memorial Day Parade hosted by the Larchmont Edgewater Civic League in Norfolk.

Over time, we’ve had those international offerings expand, including the number of Indian restaurants. In Chesapeake, food writer Patrick Evans-Hylton recently enjoyed Rasoi IV Authentic Indian Cuisine, located in Walmart Way Crossing shopping center.

Nothing seemed out of the ordinary when Matthew Harvey went to pick up his son at a Newport News bus stop on the afternoon of Sept. 30. But then he saw his son walking off the bus naked from the waist down.

Ross Brockwell, a Virginia Beach native, is one of four crew members selected to embark on the mission at Johnson Space Center in Houston.

A flicker, Canada goose, greater yellowlegs and a falcon were spotted in Hampton Roads.

Bring the family on Saturday, June 3, to Northwest River Park for a “Fireside Chat,” hosted by Chesapeake Parks, Recreation and Tourism.

City leaders say the proliferation of improperly placed temporary signs — particularly political ones — have become an issue that calls for more action, especially amidst a statewide election and ahead of next year’s national elections.

"Most of you reading this were not affected by the tornado because it’s in just one area of Virginia Beach. It’s just one small targeted area, which happens to be my whole world."

Suffolk is introducing automated traffic-enforcement cameras in an effort to improve safety on roads and around schools.

The Patriotic Festival at the Scope Arena this Memorial Day weekend brings together "a very patriotic community" in Hampton Roads.

Celebrate the military and their families at the USO Experience Virginia Beach on June 1 through June 5 at the oceanfront.

The Fred Heutte Center, which used to be a ticket house for the ferries coming into Norfolk where Waterside currently sits, is surrounded by the Botetourt Gardens. Members of the community are making an effort to restore and preserve the historic building and return the gardens to how Fred Heutte originally envisioned.

Gerald "Jerry" Gandy met with a Virginian-Pilot reporter and photographer in April at his Virginia Beach home. For nearly four hours, the 82-year-old Vietnam War veteran painstakingly recounted his wartime experiences — detailing the sights, sounds, smells and the bloodshed of his time in the jungle.