Mechelle Hankerson
News DirectorMechelle is News Director at WHRO. She helped launch the newsroom as a reporter in 2020. She's worked in newspapers and nonprofit news in her career. Mechelle lives in Virginia Beach, where she grew up.
Mechelle can be reached by email at mechelle.hankerson@whro.org or at 757-889-9466.
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Newport News Mayor Phil Jones won reelection with 70% of votes. While he has resources to go for a bigger office, he said he’s staying put for now. -
Lucas and six others were charged with racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to launder money and marijuana, wire fraud and more. -
Without a candidate, races in Virginia default to write-in campaigns. -
Gloucester County will elect a new Clerk of Court this November. Here’s what clerks do. -
Diane Jones created “Feminine Fusion” to highlight composers, instrumentalists and more in her new weekend music show. -
The FBI has not provided information about the raid of Lucas’s Portsmouth office and The Cannabis Outlet, which the senator owns. -
Most of Hampton Roads’ congressional districts would stay roughly the same in Democrats’ proposed redistricting. A Republican stronghold could change dramatically. -
Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney Andrew Rice and retired teacher Cheryl Smith are running to replace longtime Republican Del. Barry Knight in the House of Delegates.
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The Girl Scouts of the Colonial Coast recently held their annual Cookie Count ’n’ Go. The regional council wants to sell more than one million boxes of cookies this year. -
Hampton Roads residents gathered to mourn the death of Old Dominion University graduate Renee Nicole Good at the hands of an ICE agent in Minneapolis.
