An $11.3 million initiative to reduce the rise in Hepatitis C infections tied to the opioid epidemic will fund local harm reduction efforts such as centers where users can exchange used needles for sterile ones. 

Ken Neill, the longtime CEO of Contemporary Media Inc., is leaving that post effective June 15. He will be succeeded by Anna Traverse, the company’s chief operating officer.

Back in 2008, residents in the neighborhoods around the railway had a lot of questions about the project that would become the Shelby Farms Greenline, and that’s where the New Memphis Fellows stepped in to help.

The design of FedEx Logistics' plans to transform the vacant Gibson Guitar Factory into its new Downtown Memphis headquarters is up for review. 

FedEx said Thursday its FedEx Ground unit will deliver seven days a week full-time starting next January. The company is also making moves to better handle oversized shipments by Ground.

The 22-lot Ellsworth Place faces the historic homes of the East Buntyn neighborhood and backs up to the large, mixed-use Highland Row development.

The New York-based owner of One Commerce Square and Southwind Business Center has acquired its third Memphis property, Thousand Oaks Business Center, for $14 million – well below its appraised property value.

Peabody Hotels & Resorts is moving forward with a hotel near the Texas Motor Speedway in North Texas.

Two proposed new multifamily infill projects in Midtown are requesting variances from the Board of Adjustment. 

The Memphis Zoo has promoted Matt Thompson to chief zoological officer, a role in which he manages the direction of all animal programs and leads all decisions about animal care.

A retailer that once catered mostly to cattle and crop farmers has adapted to a new breed of customers in and around a much more urban Collierville. 

The financing and the land acquisition for Union Row's first phase have been accomplished, the developer says.

After Saint Francis Hospital-Bartlett backed away from its plans to build a free-standing emergency department in Arlington, it has created a strategy to draw patients from surrounding areas based on service. 

Memphis International Airport will introduce a new gate management system as part of an effort to cope with growing traffic and limits on the number of gates available for aircraft.

FedEx said it regretted the inadvertent misrouting of shipments for Chinese telecom network equipment maker Huawei. Two of the packages wound up in Memphis rather than China earlier this month.

In her book, legal writer Emily Bazelon tells the story about District Attorney Amy Weirich and her prosecution of Noura Jackson, whose mother was killed in their East Memphis home. Jackson was tried and convicted of second-degree murder; in 2017, her conviction was overturned.

May isn't the strongest month for hotel occupancy in Memphis and Downtown, but it consistently generates the highest room rates, because of the Memphis in May International Festival, officials say.

Construction has started on Carvana's "car vending machine" along I-40 in Northeast Memphis.

We’re about to spend $50 million to fix something that’s not really broken, and throw chump change or nothing at all at opportunities for true transformation.

The Clipper towers will create significant shadows Downtown, but the neighbor with the most sunshine to lose is not concerned.

Boxing classes across the Mid-South are slowing and even reversing the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, a neurodegenerative disorder that results in the loss of hand-eye coordination, posture, reflexes and other motor skills. 

The co-founders unveiled the well-funded 275 Food Project, a comprehensive “social enterprise” to boost the local-food economy in Memphis as well as access to local food and the jobs it creates.

Galilee Memorial Gardens will reopen on weekends and holidays under a court-approved plan. The cemetery was closed in 2014 after its owner was arrested for mishandling bodies and theft.

The city council still has some difficult decisions to make. But past budget seasons show there is also still some compromise possible between what the mayor proposed and what the council decided last week.

A new cancer treatment is giving lymphoma patients who are not responsive to chemotherapy another option than hospice care.