The U.S. Postal Service will give customers additional time to collect mail that's been held by the Post Office during the COVID-19 crisis.

The reopening of businesses across Shelby County started out quiet and slow, with some stores not even taking advantage of the first day of the Back to Business plan.

Baptist and Methodist will be operating at up to 50% of usual elective surgery capacity.

Memphis area fitness centers were gearing up to reopen Monday with smaller class sizes, more space between people and equipment, senior citizen hours and a continued focus on virtual classes.

Parts of Memphis’ $3.5 billion a year tourism industry could make a comeback as soon as next week. The city will vet reopening plans on a case-by-case basis.

In Memphis, seniors can find resources at The Aging Commission of the Mid-South, Professional Network on Aging, MIFA and Meritan.

FedEx said an announced national job action against several companies in the e-commerce and shipping businesses had "no impact" on operations Friday.

The YMCA of Memphis & the Midsouth confirmed Saturday that it bought and will use as its resource center a 55,888-square-foot office building in Cordova's Goodlett Farms office park.

Not every business will be willing or prepared to reopen Monday even if allowed to under the Memphis and Shelby County "Back to Business" plan. 

The first 11 grants, totaling $62,500, were approved Friday, May 1, under the Economic Development Growth Engine's new program to aid small, inner-city businesses struggling because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A building permit application filed this week is part of a $20 million project to enlarge and upgrade St. Clair Foods, which makes potato salad and many other refrigerated or frozen side dishes and has an expanded deal with Sam's Club stores.

The new online convenience is part of a new approach, called "Develop901," to make it easier to proceed through the planning, construction and development process. 

The UrbanArt Commission and a public art committee of the Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority are scheduled to receive site-specific proposals for public art in the B Concourse in mid-June.

International Paper reported adjusted earnings of 57 cents a share for the quarter, with strong immediate demand for corrugated packaging and pulp offset by lower demand for printing paper.

The ranks of Tennesseans unemployed in the Memphis area grew by another 8,215 people last week, reaching 65,147 since the COVID-19 economic shutdown began in mid-March.

Christina Stevison looked to her mother, late magazine publisher and entrepreneur Tina Birchett, for inspiration in developing an online workshop with the look and feel of Memphis' annual Sisterhood Showcase expo.

With an assist from the Society of International Paediatric Oncology, the registry has been publicized around the world.

The chamber will be enlisting help from city and county officials and businesses, small and large, to set up a business response council “to deal not just with recovery, but resilience and reset,” Robertson told a Shelby County Commission committee Wednesday, April 29.

J. Paul Taylor's research linking molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases is lauded as "groundbreaking."

Memphis College of Art is closing and graduates its last class on May 9. The pandemic has made a difficult situation harder, forcing the college to substitute a prerecorded commencement video for the real graduation ritual.

The school of music is not the same without togetherness and non-digital interaction.

Memphis company has been supplying critical atmospheric gases to coronavirus field hospitals in Georgia, Florida and other parts of Tennessee.

The by-appointment-only bridal boutique shop started in Cooper-Young, moved to East Memphis, and now moves to the South Main District. 

Prospero Health quickly adapted to telemedicine and expanded its reach by 20 states.

Even though the stores are closed, Buff City Soap is finding new ways to connect with customers and provide hygiene during the pandemic.