New jobless claims continued to trickle in amid a phased reopening of the Memphis economy after devastating losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Downtown Memphis Commission staff recommends that grants for exterior improvements to South City businesses start covering 90% of the costs instead of 75%.

The soon-to-open "active adult rentals" development eliminates food and medical services but packs in resort-style amenities and programming. 

Graduate students in public health will begin tabulations and surveys next week. The grading would be an extension of “knowing where we are and where we want to get to,” according to Dr. Manoj Jain.

The Daily Memphian names an editor to oversee coverage of education as well as local neighborhoods and suburbs while also announcing new reporters for the Memphis Grizzlies and University of Memphis football.

Kroger and Prairie Farms targeted by Teamsters rallies seeking congressional action to protect America’s food supply chain and its workforce.

For decades, listeners could tune in to hear Drake Hall on the radio. Then suddenly, for the first time in a long time, they couldn’t. 

Two researchers from the College of Medicine are working together on the interdisciplinary project funded by NIH.

Chrissy Geibel has joined Dunavant as Senior Vice President of Domestic Logistics, where she will lead and grow the division while ensuring superior solutions and customer service across agriculture, chemical, food & beverage, automotive and retail sectors.

Digital convenience store delivery service goPuff launched in the Memphis market this week from a location on Park near the University of Memphis.

Memphis River Parks Partnership expects an October launch of the historic cobblestone landing restoration and November start on the first phase of Tom Lee Park's transformation.

Project plan is to convert upper floors of four, attached buildings into six apartments, and enlarge McEwen's restaurant.

The Downtown Memphis Commission has just unveiled a draft master plan that could guide Downtown development for the next decade. The DMC will seek public response through June.

The coronavirus reproduction rate has hovered at 1.2 during Phase 2 of the business reopening, which went into effect May 18.

The newest inspection station at 2355 Appling City Cove had been open only three years before the city closed them all seven years ago.

The pandemic gets the blame for putting a hard brake on home sales in the Memphis area. But the average price for homes continues to rise and the year-to-date sales volume is still ahead of 2019.

Church Health chief executive Dr. Scott Morris: "Do you now somebody who has lost their job, who has lost their health insurance?... This might be a time to consider making a donation to Church Health."

There are thousands of cradles graves at Elmwood. Slowly, in pockets and bunches, they are being planted by a troupe of volunteers finding particular solace tending a cemetery in a pandemic.

On June 19, event planner Cynthia Daniels is hosting an online market for African American makers to sell their wares, crafts and services.

The Church of the Holy Communion members have two reasons to celebrate: They finally get to see their renovated worship space, and each other.

The Baumers opened their first store in May 1999 in the then-new Trinity Place shopping center at Trinity Road and Germantown Parkway.

UTHSC students organized the event to focus attention on disparities in medical care along racial lines, drawing hundreds of medical workers and students to the rally in the Medical District. 

EDGE has approved $304,000 in NEED grants for 54 businesses, many of them minority and women-owned enterprises.

FedEx Express has been reorganized from six regions globally to three, and Richard W. Smith is overseeing a newly formed Americas region: the U.S., Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Patricia Myles, 49, was breathing on her own after being treated with the experimental drug, remdesivir. She was discharged from Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis, 21 days after the intravenous therapy started.