Shelby County Commissioner Mick Wright says even with recent changes in state laws this year, it’s unclear where the health department’s authority to issue mask mandates and require other measures ends and where decisions by elected officials begin.

As of 5 p.m. Aug. 4 there were 423 COVID-positive patients in area hospital beds.

Testing will begin Sept. 6 for Health Department staff.

Area’s mayors take a united stand against tax assessments, Lenny’s gets a new location and a new home feature no one wants. 

A proposed used-car lot in Raleigh has become symbolic of a much larger change in the council’s consideration of what development goes where and under what conditions.

Protests from suburban parents continued Tuesday, although gatherings were smaller than those that occurred Monday.

“Alvin Motley had a right to exist, pump gas and play his music because this is America, and nobody has the right to kill a young Black man for playing music,” says civil rights attorney.

The Shelby County Commission voted Monday, Aug. 9, to override the veto of a new ethics advisory panel the commission would appoint.

Tennessee’s two Republican U.S. Senators telegraphed their “no” votes well ahead of Tuesday’s vote, which was delayed over the weekend by Hagerty.

Hospital has nearly half the serious cases in the state.

Former Memphis Tiger and Grizzlies player Antonio Burks is charged with operating an illegal poker and gambling house.

Sherra Wright, the ex-wife of slain basketball star Lorenzen Wright, has withdrawn her request to overturn her guilty plea in the death.

The delay comes after all seven city mayors in Shelby County came out against the switch from a four-year reappraisal cycle to the two-year cycle approved earlier this year by the Shelby County Commission.

More employers are looking to vaccine mandates (while at least one may be regretting theirs), Dillon Brooks gave ESPN viewers a start, and a new proposal could change the very landscape of Memphis.

No decision yet at Baptist, the area’s largest system; 58% of its 19,000 employees are vaccinated.

The BDC Business Hub represents the nonprofit’s most significant job training and creation endeavor yet. The site will also house business tenants aligned with its mission and commitment toward offering more opportunities for Binghampton residents.

The veto override by the commission is the latest chapter in an ongoing dispute between County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. and Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris.

The delays to the Aug. 23 commission meeting followed a rancorous debate among commissioners and between commissioners and anti-maskers who taunted one commissioner online before Monday’s session.

Attorneys for pretrial detainees at the Shelby County Jail claim the county has not satisfied the requirements of a consent decree. 

While other districts struggle with trying to appease parents over whether students should wear masks, Bartlett City Schools will continue to follow the direction of the county Health Department.

Collierville will enforce masking at its schools. Students who do not mask will be sent home.

Parents in Collierville are divided on the Shelby County Health Department’s mandate and the district’s decision to align its guidelines accordingly. 

For the first time since March 2020, all Shelby County Schools students were expected to return to in-person classes amid rising COVID-19 cases. 

Gas stations and used-tire shops no longer fit within the long-range plans for 21 commercial districts across Memphis, according to a new recommendation from the Division of Planning & Development.