Roanoke County has some special visitors this week.

The records store opened in 1953 in Floyd.

Unlike other places around the country, we aren’t always guaranteed to see some snow here in our region.

Country music legends are coming to Roanoke later this year.

They're hosting the annual Valentines for Vets event from Jan 10 through Feb 9.

NEW YORK – Charley Pride, the son of sharecroppers in Mississippi who became one of country music’s biggest stars and the first Black member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, has died. Pride died Saturday in Dallas of complications from COVID-19, according to Jeremy Westby of the public relations firm 2911 Media. Pride, blessed with a rich baritone, released some 60 albums and sold more than 25 million records during a career that began in the mid-1960s. 1 hits and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000. The Smithsonian in Washington acquired memorabilia from Pride, including a pair of boots and one of his guitars, for the the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Honoree Kane Brown accepts an award onstage during the 2019 CMT Artist of the Year at Schermerhorn Symphony Center on Oct. 16, 2019 in Nashville. (CNN) - Country star Kane Brown choked back tears as he honored his late drummer, Kenny Dixon, as he accepted an award at the CMT Artists of the Year awards show just four days after Dixon's death. "I want to dedicate this to my drummer Kenny," Brown. Country singer Chris Young had presented Brown with the award and also had mentioned Dixon's tragic death. Brown also paid tribute to Dixon with an Instagram message on Sunday.

Two dentalium (tusk shell) necklaces from Bardi Jawi are among the aboriginal artifacts being returned to Australia from the U.S.SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois State Museum will be returning 42 aboriginal artifacts to Australia after 10 months of discussions. Members of the aboriginal groups will be traveling to Illinois in October to repatriate the artifacts. "Returning these items -- it's just the right thing to do," Illinois State Museum director Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko said in a statement. The museum is the first institution in the world to return aboriginal artifacts under the Australian Government's Return of Cultural Heritage Project, the museum said in the statement. That initiative is attempting to return over 95,000 artifacts of Australian Indigenous groups from over 200 institutions around the world.