The first part of the plaza, Market on Melrose, is set to open at the end of this year.

A new addition at Mill Mountain Zoo is open for kids to enjoy.

A familiar face to Southwest Virginia will be on Virginia’s new Medical Advisory Team.

Total Action for Progres is kicking off its annual campaign with special recognition to two people in the community.

You know, we were making decisions without really information,” recalled President and CEO of Carilion Clinic Nancy Agee. “One of the biggest concerns we had was keeping our staff safe, keeping our community safe and obviously keeping our patients safe,” said Agee. Agee is inspired by her hardworking colleagues and now seeing COVID vaccine shots going into arms in Southwest Virginia. It’s going to take a while but we are going to get past it,’” Agee said. “COVID not only gave us a glimpse of our future, it gave us the roadmap,” Agee said.

ROANOKE, Va. – The world's best when it comes to technology are gathered in Las Vegas this week for the Consumer Electronics Show and one of the speakers came from Southwest Virginia. Carilion Clinic President and CEO Nancy Agee just got back from speaking at the famed conference that’s only recently started to include health care. She discussed how providers can create digital front door strategies to meet consumer expectations and what Carilion is doing to make that happen. "We're introducing something called mytonomy, very new concept and really meeting patients where they are in an open portal so that they can get information whenever, wherever they want, agnostic to any device and share that with their family and friends," Agee said. Agee said CES also gave her an opportunity to see how new technology in other sectors can be translated to health care.