The hospital will open when numbers of COVID-19 patients make it necessary; they will arrive by ambulance in a drive-up bay off Beale Street.

Decisions about payment and future tests are among scores of questions and adjustments that all states are dealing with after the pandemic shuttered schools nationwide before testing season got underway.

The vice principal at Bartlett High School will take over the reins at the academy beginning July 1. 

Shelby County saw 42 new cases of coronavirus from only 688 tests reported Monday. The county's positivity rate overall is 7.2%.

The second phase of reopening the Memphis area economy began Monday, May 18. It will go for 21 days before a much more ambitious third and final phase of the reopening plan.

Shelby County Schools superintendent Joris Ray outlines the district’s long-term strategy for reopening schools.

FedEx and Microsoft have formed a strategic alliance that company leaders believe will "revolutionize" commerce by giving businesses more visibility into and control of inventories and supply chains.

The Shelby County Election Commission picked new voting machines earlier this month without the public knowing the name of the company or the price. But it has done little to settle the ongoing debate about changes to how Memphis voters exercise their right.

Even though Corinth was a small town of about 1,200, its location made it the key to controlling the western half of the Confederacy and its most important city, Memphis.

'Despite our financial soundness, everyone in Shelby County soon will be paying more in property taxes unless my colleagues on the County Commission embrace a serious reality check regarding the shortfall in the county’s general fund.'

Tennessee Department of Health reported 100 new cases of COVID-19 Sunday for a total of 17,388. Three new deaths were also confirmed.

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation confirmed there was shooting involving three officers in Germantown on Sunday.

Poets, artists and musicians historically have been able to speak the truth when the truth is hard to come by, and sometimes do more more to help people through the crises they face than so-called experts.

Finding a light when things are so dark is what scientists do, and this is how society will think (not just spend) our way out of this pandemic and all its consequences.

City hopes self-reporting figures continue to rise as the Census Bureau prepares to resume field activities on June 1. 

When state lawmakers return to Nashville to grapple with the state budget in a flagging COVID-19 economy, they'll have an incomplete picture of the state's economy because state revenue is trickling in and business tax collections have been delayed until July.

The bet against MJ did not go the way of former mayor Willie Herenton. More tales of basketball-star-turned-baseball-player's trips to Memphis.

Martin Luther King Jr. College Preparatory High School faculty hosted students for a lively celebration, where students and their families were able to accept their diplomas in drive-thru fashion.

The $2 million “Develop901” system was in the works before the COVID-19 pandemic. Planning and Development division Director John Zeanah talked about the extensive overhaul on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast and a slight drop in permits that may be cyclical and not pandemic-related.

Still short of the goal of 2,400 tests per day, a record-breaking week of tests finds continued decline in positivity.

Charlie Crunk takes over St. Benedict's volleyball program while Adam Smith will lead the baseball team.

As of Saturday morning, 2,375 people in Shelby County are considered as having recovered from COVID-19.

A geekfest on the new online system coming to take and track permits and other paperwork from development projects across the county. Our guest is planning and development director John Zeanah.

Both Methodist and Baptist hospital systems are coping with COVID-19 physically so far, but money is becoming a problem.

Safety appears to be the primary concern of large retailers that remain in no hurry to reopen all of their stores just yet.