The pandemic is now layered onto the everyday statistics of depression and suicide, which counselor Grace McLaren called a dangerous brew.

Home sales and construction activity were among the brightest spots in economic activity in the Federal Reserve District that includes Memphis. 

A two-story commercial building at the seam of Central Gardens and the Medical District will soon become 18 units of luxury apartments.

Germantown has been charged for legal counsel expenses the Shelby County Election Commission incurred after John Barzizza contested mayoral election results.

If conditions improve, Rhodes is prepared to bring first-year students back to campus in the fall.

New delivery business is set to open its first fully automated grocery fulfillment center next year to serve customers across Memphis.

The players were forced to quarantine for a two-week period and test negative for COVID-19 before they were allowed to return. 

Tennessee parents who stay home with children for virtual education are eligible for unemployment and cash assistance, Gov. Bill Lee said this week. But the Department of Labor was unclear on the question.

Hotel occupancy rates nationally nearly doubled between early April and July 4, but industry is still hunkered down because of business travel shutdown and recent spikes in COVID-19 cases.

Five-star center Moussa Cisse has committed to Memphis. It's a huge win for Penny Hardaway — and a reason to believe that next season (if there is one) could be what last season was supposed to be. 

Cisse, while still raw offensively, is a game-changer on the defensive end. 

FedEx is promoting a dozen entrepreneurs, including Memphis' Phillip Ashley Chocolates, as part of its Big Days of Small promotion July 15-16.

The MassMutual Foundation grant will establish the Frayser Connect resource hub, an initiative that will match every $1 a Frayser family saves with $2, provide grants and loans for small businesses, and support other ideas created by a new resident advisory committee.

The former NBA standout and Memphis Tigers assistant will replace Charlie Leonard.

The area's overall positivity rate is at 9.1% with the new cases. 

The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency last week began delivering 298,000 masks to school districts for the state’s 66,000 public school teachers and other school staff.

The spending plan or budget was reconstructed several times in bargaining and changes in federal rules for how the grants could be used. Along the way, there was talk of animals moving out of the zoo and how to fund laptops and tablets for Shelby County Schools students.

A civil rights lawsuit has been filed against Collierville following a June 2019 officer-involved shooting that killed one person.

Gov. Bill Lee is not considering making a statewide mask mandate or shutting down parts of the economy again to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, even as cases surge.

Collierville’s Board of Mayor and Alderman is asking a developer to take another look at his mixed-use proposal before a final review.

A lawsuit seeking the release of medically vulnerable detainees from the Shelby County Jail because of COVID-19 has ended. Both sides now will wait to see how the court rules. 

Yet another seafood boil restaurant is coming to Memphis. The Hook & Reel will breathe new life into a building where an O'Charley's Restaurant closed recently.

MATA bus drivers, a trolley driver, dispatcher and other employees have tested positive for COVID-19

Harvard and MIT were the first to contest the policy, but at least seven other federal suits had been filed by universities and states opposing the rule.

There are a lot of hard choices to make during this pandemic, but postponing high school football shouldn't be one of them. It's time to move the season to the spring.