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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The Virginia Aquarium is reaching the end of its usable life and Virginia Beach leaders already tried to sell the facility to private owners to deal with rising maintenance costs. -
Candidates for local offices in Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake and Newport News faced tough races to represent their political party in November’s general election. -
Norfolk school board members clashed over Sharon Byrdsong’s termination, with some claiming the decision is a result of internal disorganization of the board. -
Party contests for governor all the way down to sheriffs and clerks will be on ballots across Hampton Roads. -
The federal Institute of Museum and Library Services provided about $5 million to organizations in Hampton Roads in the last decade. Under a recent executive order, some of that could disappear. -
Health officials said rising syphilis rates in Virginia have been on the rise since the early 2000s. -
Dr. Victoria Crenshaw of Cannability Consulting told WHRO’s Another View older adults use cannabis products to sleep, treat chronic pain and even at the end of life. -
WHRO staff members with winter weather experience share their tips on staying safe and making it through snow days. -
Hodges was part of or on the fringes of major historical events, like the 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia’s Constitutional Convention and more. -
In 2018, WHRO’s Another View spoke with the author of “"Redemption: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Last 31 Hours,” a researched account of what happened leading up to King’s death.
