After an agreement with China in 2003, giant pandas Le Le and Ya Ya have spent nearly two decades delighting visitors to the Memphis Zoo. In honor of National Giant Panda Day, the zoo threw a celebration all about their species.
Memphis is home to one of Tennessee's safety net hospitals, which will serve low-income residents in need of health care should they contract the COVID-19 virus.
For now, TNReady testing is on for grades 3-11. It’s scheduled to start as soon as April 13, though school districts have some leeway to decide exactly when.
Do we just pray for our environment? Or pray for children being separated from their parents? Or might the faith communities be called to engage in … dare I suggest it … politics?
This year’s home is in the new Kensington Manor subdivision off U.S. 70. Work is in full swing on the roughly 4,000-square-foot home that will be the grand prize.
The employee was exposed to the novel coronavirus by the individual who was the first confirmed case in Shelby County, the hospital system says.
Ned Canty of Opera Memphis talks about the Ramones, how opera became a "tool of social exclusion," and the evolution of opera globally and in Memphis.
Baptist has added a mobile testing unit outside the Emergency Room entrance at its East Memphis hospital.
The most common question I’m asked remains, “When can I get back to work?” Without work, no one gets paid, and without paychecks, kids don’t eat.
Art history professor Earnestine Jenkins describes Augusta Savage’s sculptures as a form of resistance to the way black subjects were represented in the last century.
The coronavirus has roiled the financial markets just as primary construction for Union Row and the Snuff District is about to start. Yet the developers are plowing ahead.
Tennessee’s political leaders are speeding up work on Gov. Bill Lee’s $40.9 billion budget proposal, which is expected to contain extra funding to deal with COVID-19 and tornadoes that struck the state amid a state of emergency.
Shelby County elections administrator Linda Phillips says her goal is still to have a new voting system in place when early voting begins July 17 in advance of the Aug. 6 election day.
Terrence Miller will have to dip into his savings to pay the bills now that events inside FedExForum are off. But he is one of the lucky ones.
The coronavirus has shut down most of the sports world and, as a consequence, sports books at Southland Casino and Racing and in Tunica are in for huge decreases in sports gaming revenue.
Tennessee's Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn appeared before the Senate Education Committee for a second straight week, where she was grilled about decisions last year involving the state textbook commission.
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris remains in constant contact with staff and health department officials while on “a very important trip to a very important place.”
State Rep. Antonio Parkinson is seeking more state funding for unemployment benefits and food stamps to help the working poor during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Coronavirus suspends most court activity, affects prison visitation.
A former Germantown High soccer star and member of the U.S. Women's team has reached the pinnacle of the United States Soccer Federation.
Friday, March 13, looked like a regular Friday morning at Memphis International Airport, not the spring break traffic jam that had been predicted before coronavirus began spreading in the U.S.
Lakeland is moving forward with plans for a new city park as part of its efforts to provide more recreational athletic offerings.
After canceling her "Here We Go Again" tour, following concern surrounding the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19, Cher's performance at FedExForum has been rescheduled.
The pharmaceutical-distribution company has closed one of its operations in Southeast Memphis even as its invests in other Memphis-area facilities.
Challenge is developing marketing and commercialization paths for local technology, then stepping up to the plate to sell it.