“The sky’s the limit” is a recurring theme in conversations among students, faculty and administrators of a school for aircraft mechanics in the shadow of FedEx Express’ Memphis world hub.

The city of Olive Branch completed the purchase of Olive Branch Airport on Wednesday, Oct. 31, ending a 45-year run of private ownership of one of Mississippi’s busiest airports.

FedEx Corp. has announced that it will end a shipping discount alliance with the National Rifle Association, citing an inadequate volume of shipping to sustain the program.

About 110 FedEx volunteers gathered in Memphis Friday, Oct. 26, to package more than 3,600 hygiene kits to replenish the warehouses of Heart to Heart International following a deadly tropical storm season.

DeSoto County’s final section of Interstate 269 opened Friday, Oct. 26, with predictions of economic benefits, kudos to those who conceived and built it and prayers for safe travel.

The University of Memphis will receive $500,000 from a FedEx Express scholarship grant to support a newfound commercial aviation degree program.

For the third weekend in a row, Interstate 240 and Poplar are scheduled to be closed down for construction from 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26, to 6 a.m. Monday, Oct. 29.

XPO Logistics, employer of 4,000 warehouse and distribution workers in greater Memphis, is under fire again, the centerpiece of a New York Times story about treatment of pregnant workers in U.S. workplaces.

U.S. 72 in Mississippi is now four lanes from Tennessee to Alabama.

American Airlines is adding a fourth weekday nonstop between Memphis and Washington, starting Jan. 7.

Memphis International Airport has announced its 2019 lineup of free behind-the-scenes tours designed to familiarize the public with airport operations and economic impact.

FedEx on Thursday announced an agreement to buy Australian logistics services company Manton Air-Sea Pty Ltd.

American Airlines has beefed up Memphis-Miami service with a second daily nonstop that started Oct. 4.

Charles Baker Airport, the Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority’s facility for small planes in north Shelby County, is getting a renovation of four aircraft hangars.

A new master plan for the Port of Memphis calls for infrastructure upgrades to keep Presidents Island stable and a concerted push to maximize the potential of 2,300 undeveloped acres in nearby Frank C. Pidgeon Industrial Park.

Bridge lighting installation is scheduled to cause intermittent lane closures on Interstate 40 on the Hernando DeSoto Bridge 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Monday, Oct. 22, to Thursday, Oct. 25, weather permitting, the Tennessee Department of Transportation says.

Zombies didn’t take over a runway at Memphis International Airport Monday morning, but it sure looked like it. A mass-casualty disaster exercise featured 117 students, moaning, limping and generally pouring on the theatrics as they pretended to be victims of an airliner crash landing. The mock disaster, which closed Runway 36L/18R from 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday, began with explosions and fireballs around 10:30 a.m., attracting fire trucks and ambulances to the airfield southwest of the terminal.

FedEx isn’t worried about recruiting employees for the coming peak season despite Amazon’s move to a $15 minimum wage starting Nov. 1, a high-ranking official said Friday.

The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) has scheduled full weekend closures of Interstate 240 and Poplar in East Memphis for the next three weekends as part of a project to replace bridges over I-240.

FedEx will hire 3,800 people in the Memphis area for the holiday shipping season, out of 55,000 additional personnel systemwide.

DeSoto County’s last segment of Interstate 269 opens Oct. 26, completing a seamless four-lane expressway from Tunica to eastern Shelby County.

The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) is reviewing bids received Friday, Oct. 5, for the first section of Lamar Avenue’s long-awaited upgrade in southeast Shelby County.

Letter carrier Maurice Hill worries what would become of people on his Berclair postal route if U.S. mail were privatized and he didn’t go door to door each day.

Former Yahoo! and Autodesk chief executive officer Carol Bartz will speak in Memphis Thursday as part of Christian Brothers High School’s FedEx Speaker Series.

It would be hard to find a community service project more in FedEx’s wheelhouse than the assembly of holiday care packages for U.S. military personnel that took over the FedEx Event Center at Shelby Farms Thursday.