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Mill Mountain Zoo welcomes new black bear Meet 10-year-old Hyde Tags:  ROANOKE, Va. – Mill Mountain Zoo made the big reveal today by introducing a new face, Hyde the black bear. Hyde was brought in from Wright Park Zoo in Dodge City, Kansas where she lived since she was three months old. She was born in captivity. At just 10 years old, Hyde weighs 350 pounds. From renovating her enclosure and the observation deck for her visitors, Hyde’s arrival is the zoo’s biggest project since the enclosure for Ruby, the tiger. It was a two-year process but now that she’s here the zoo plans to i...

Mill Mountain Zoo more than doubling its capacity on April 1 The zoo is now open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Published:  Tags:  Starting April 1, the Mill Mountain Zoo will now allow 120 guests per hour, rather than 50. The zoo has been operating under that limit since it reopened last June. This follows Gov. Ralph Northam’s announcement on March 23 that will allow outdoor entertainment venues to operate at 30% of their capacity with no numeric cap on attendance starting April 1. “Since the weather has been so nice, a lot of people have wanted to enjoy the outdoors,” sai...

Residents of the Roanoke Valley know that you don’t have to drive all the way to Blacksburg or Bent Mountain to see a vast difference in how some winter storms play out. A cold rain or non-sticking “white rain” snowfall downtown near the Market Square or the Roanoke River can be several inches of snow or tree-sagging ice on Peakwood Drive in South Roanoke or Hunting Hills in southwest Roanoke County or up by the Star on Mill Mountain. This happened repeatedly this winter, playing havoc with the local details of forecasts in a season featuring frequent borderline-temperature pre...

Brad Stephens stood in the kitchen of a newly renovated Southeast Roanoke house, sounding like a real estate agent trying to close a deal. “New cabinets,” he said, pointing to the island counter in the middle of the room and the cabinets along the walls. “New appliances. New windows. The backsplash will be finished next week. … It’s a really nice space.” The house stands atop a rise above the busy four-lane stretch where Jamison Avenue becomes Dale Avenue in the Belmont neighborhood. A brightly painted mural adorns a concrete wall that runs along the street just ...

Brad Stephens stood in the kitchen of a newly renovated Southeast Roanoke house, sounding like a real estate agent trying to close a deal. “New cabinets,” he said, pointing to the island counter in the middle of the room and the cabinets along the walls. “New appliances. New windows. The backsplash will be finished next week. … It’s a really nice space.” The house stands atop a rise above the busy four-lane stretch where Jamison Avenue becomes Dale Avenue in the Belmont neighborhood. A brightly painted mural adorns a concrete wall that runs along the street just ...