Another Sheetz location is coming to the Roanoke Valley.

While some people try to struggle to stay cool in this extreme heat, some local businesses are booming.

While it seems increasingly unlikely the U.S. economy is headed for recession, small businesses still face headwinds like higher costs and difficulty retaining qualified workers.

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares believes local businesses can be part of the solution to addressing human trafficking in the Commonwealth.

Virginia Tech football hosts Syracuse tomorrow for a Thursday night showdown. 10 News spoke with one local shop about how Hokie Nation helps businesses.

August is recognized as National Black Business Month, a time to celebrate and support locally-owned businesses by people of color.

This is the 68th year of the Vinton Dogwood Festival.

The plan features better housing and improving infrastructure to help attract and retain businesses in the area

A major economic boost will help attract businesses and workers to Roanoke.

As the weather gets warmer, businesses near Smith Mountain Lake are preparing for a busy season.

Businesses in the New River Valley can soon get some financial help to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19.

Small businesses are struggling in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, facing days or weeks without power and Internet, storm damage and difficulty communicating with clients or customers.

Four sports are making their Olympic debut in Tokyo: skateboarding, sport climbing, karate, and surfing. Business owners in Lynchburg are hopeful that the games bring attention to those sports.

“Believe it or not, there’s still a lot of people that don’t know there’s a bike shop in Altavista,” said Pate. The Town of Altavista is launching the Distrx mobile app to bring attention to their downtown district. Jessica McKay, manager of Main Street Café and Coffee, believes this is another way to connect with consumers during COVID. Sandridge added any Main Street community across the country can set up the Distrx app, that way visitors receive notifications instantly. “So, if you’re living in Florida, but you visit here in Altavista; if you have the app, you’re going to get a notification the moment you come into the downtown district,” said Sandridge.

LYNCHBURG, Va. – Lynchburg business owners have more time to apply for a local CARES Act grant. The City of Lynchburg extended its deadline to Oct. 30. You could receive a grant up to $20,000 as long as your business has at least one employee. The city council allocated four million dollars to the program. So far, 250 businesses have applied.

U.S. businesses sharply reduced hiring last month suggesting that the resurgent viral outbreak this summer slowed the economic recovery as many states closed parts of their economies again and consumers remained cautious about spending. U.S. firms added just 167,000 jobs in July, payroll processor ADP said Wednesday, far below June's gain of 4.3 million and May's increase of 3.3 million. July's limited hiring means the economy still has 13 million fewer jobs than it did in February, according to ADP, before the viral outbreak intensified. Hiring collapsed among companies of all sizes and in nearly all industries. A category that mostly includes restaurants, bars and hotels added just 38,000 jobs last month, after gaining more than 3 million in May and June.

(AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)NEW YORK Small businesses can still get help from the governments coronavirus relief plan after Congress extended the Paycheck Protection Program until Aug. 8. The program that was set to expire Tuesday still has nearly $132 billion left after giving out more than 4.8 million loans since it began April 3. On Monday, the Small Business Administration, which oversees the program, disclosed the names of companies that received loans of more than $150,000. The program aims to motivate small businesses to retain their employees or, if they have laid them off, get them back to work. The SBA approved more than 4.8 million loans in less than three months, far more than the 58,000 it approved in 2019.