The 15th annual Anthem GO Outside Festival kicks off today, offering three days of outdoor adventures, new activities, and economic benefits for the Roanoke region. 🚵

The season kicks off on May 29 and runs through August 28, 2025. Concerts will take place on Thursday evenings, with breaks scheduled for the week of July 3 and July 17.

The rain put a damper on Thursday’s party in downtown Roanoke.

Lace up your skates! Ice skating will return to Downtown Roanoke after it was canceled last year.

After a year off due to the pandemic, Party in Elmwood is back for the 2021 season. The 22-week festival is set to start on May 20 and happen every Thursday until Oct. 14. Concerts will happen from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and admission will be $5 per person. Officials said that masks, temperature checks, social distancing, extra space between people and an attendee limit of 1,000 people in the park will all be strictly enforced. Downtown Roanoke Inc. Marketing Communications Manager Jaimie Clark said as the state changes their guidelines, they will also adjust their protocols.

Flight 328 was flying from Denver to Honolulu when the incident occurred, the agency said. Aviation safety experts said the plane appeared to have suffered an uncontained and catastrophic engine failure. Former NTSB Chairman Jim Hall called the incident another example of “cracks in our culture in aviation safety (that) need to be addressed. The last fatality on a U.S. airline flight involved such an engine failure on a Southwest Airlines flight from New York to Dallas in April 2018. In 2010, a Qantas Airbus A380 suffered a frightening uncontained engine failure shortly after takeoff from Singapore.

ROANOKE, Va. – Looks like this classic winter activity won’t be happening in Roanoke this holiday season, and we only have this unanticipated year to blame. Elmwood on Ice, an annual ice-skating event, has been canceled as Downtown Roanoke focuses on other priorities for 2020. Officials said that finding a new location for Elmwood on Ice took a backseat to other downtown priorities, but they hope to bring the ice rink back for 2021. Downtown Roanoke also announced that Elmwood Park was chosen to highlight a new space, but did not say what it will be. Don’t worry though — The other Downtown Roanoke holiday tradition, Dickens of a Christmas will still happen this year on Dec. 4, 11, and 18.