Holidays

Representations of Day of the Dead, a celebration in Mexico and Latin America, are popping up around Chicago. Here's the meaning behind them.

Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members, but it’s come to anchor the unofficial start of summer and a long weekend of discounts on anything from mattresses to lawn mowers.

A first-generation immigrant from Taiwan, Jensin decided early on she would attend the Naval Academy. She graduated in 1991 and pursued a 21-year Navy career, serving as a public affairs officer while raising two children alongside her husband, also a career Navy officer. Now her two children are following in her mighty footsteps.

Women who have lost their mothers say grief tends to resurface during life’s milestones. Those include getting married, having a baby or, of course, Mother’s Day.

Apparently, many of our peeps love to gamble. And go camping, make snarky remarks about the actions — or inaction — of local government, and have fun with international news. This year’s entries for the 2023 Peeps Show came from art and history students in high and middle school, children with the help of parents, adults with the help of children, and artists well into their sixth and seventh decades who referred to themselves “a child in an adult body.” We even received submissions from as far as Washington state. We have selected the most detailed and intricate dioramas to feature. Here — have a peep.

A crowd estimated at close to 60,000 people gathered Saturday to welcome back the beloved annual event after it was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and then in again in 2022 because of rain.

Residents who reserved spots by parking their cars in the median along the parade route had returned to find $50 tickets, prompting upset posts to social media.

St. Patrick's Day parades in U.S. cities have become a rite of spring, like the return of baseball and the blooming of early spring flowers, and a celebration by those who are Irish at least one a year. Here are the 25 biggest St. Patrick's Day parades in America.

When Robert Hitchings, archivist-historian at the Chesapeake Central Library, came across a collection of vintage Valentines in his grandmother’s trunk, he created a library display. Over the last seven years, dozens of donated Valentines have found their way into the archives.

Martin Luther King Jr. shared his wishes for his own eulogy during the conclusion of a public sermon just two months before his assassination. Those wishes help suggest how we should celebrate now.

The end of each year is a popular time for reflection and making plans for the year ahead. These plans often include resolutions to shed bad habits, achieve goals, get healthier.

Atticus Lee Moyer was the second baby to make his debut at a Sentara hospital in 2023, entering the world around two hours after Hampton Roads rang in the new year.

Travelers who are in the military are often on fixed schedules that make it challenging to roll with the punches of chaotic airline breakdowns.

Tuesday at Norfolk International Airport, 13 flights — seven arrivals and six departures — were cancelled, all of which were Southwest Airlines, according to Flight Aware. Monday saw 15 flights cancellations coming in and out of Norfolk International. Of those, 13 were Southwest Airlines flights.

The seven-day series features food historian Tonya Hopkins and a guest, getting together to prepare a dish that ties in to that day's principle — from umoja (unity) through ujima (collective work and responsibility) to imani (faith).

A strong gust of wind blew a 51-year-old steeple off the Cradock Baptist Church in Portsmouth Friday afternoon.

The real story of Santa Claus, however, stretches back to the 3rd century when a man — St. Nicholas — became the patron saint of children.

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through Hampton Roads, not a creature was stirring, not even inside Town Center’s snow globes.

The program, led by Diana Barrett, aims to make sure every child has a merry Christmas, no matter their living situation.

After receiving the call, a dispatcher described the scene to responding officers as "a male standing outside. He is naked. He has a robe covering part of his body. He is exposing himself, and he has a hose between his legs.”

Asheville’s Biltmore Estate will be the setting of a new Hallmark Christmas movie scheduled to premiere next year.

Fill your calendar with fundraisers, parties and bingo before 2022 ends.

Once again we have entered the time of the winter solstice — when daylight is scarce and the creeping darkness seems to whisper: Slow down. Turn inward. Fortify yourself against the long, cold night ahead.