Poplar Healthcare identified 15 cases of UK variant in the first run of samples, and the University of Memphis has quarantined students to contain an outbreak there.

The City is taking a ‘calculated risk’ with 100 N. Main, a basketball championship game is headed to Collierville, and an Olive Branch manufacturing facility is looking at the future. 

Memphis consistently ranks among the worst metro areas in the nation for pedestrian safety, according to Smart Growth America, a nonprofit organization that focuses on livability issues.

MLGW resumed disconnecting customers for overdue bills this week. But there are so many, the utility has had to phase the cutoffs in, giving customers more time to work out payment plans over the next year. 

The four senior centers operated by the City of Memphis will reopen Monday, March 15, on a limited basis.

Outgoing Memphis Police Director Michael Rallings discussed his retirement, violent crime and the future of MPD Tuesday, March 9, as he prepares to retire next month. 

John Zeanah talks about the evolution of regional planning on this week’s episode of The Sidebar.

First-dose Pfizer appointments are available for Friday and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Chester Anderson Training Center.

The effort to remove the judge who ruled last year that the COVID-19 pandemic was a valid reason for Tennesseans to vote by mail failed Tuesday, March 9, in a House subcommittee.

Hall will serve up to 90 days and will also help conduct the search for new permanent director.

When state investigation is over, state Health Commissioner Dr. Lisa Piercey says she will report to the citizens of Shelby County. 

Bartlett’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen authorized Mayor Keith McDonald to enter an agreement with Lakeland and Arlington to open a joint vaccination location at its meeting Tuesday.

“This will allow us to get rid of a black eye that exists right in the heart of our Downtown,” said the DMC’s interim president.

To build capacity, the City of Memphis expects to run five or six fixed vaccination sites plus one or two pop-up locations in neighborhoods where access is an issue.

The Shelby County Health Department reported fewer than 50 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, March 9.

Shelby County Health Department reported fewer than 50 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday.

UTHSC plans a baby boon, Arlington’s future will be decided in court (not on the court) and why we can now go maskless. Maybe. 

Dr. Manoj Jain has spent decades tracking viral and bacterial killers in Memphis and around the world.

Wide-ranging discussion includes safety of vaccines that may have spoiled in the field.

Commission also approves a goal of giving locally-owned small businesses 20% of county government contracts and purchases.

State Health commissioner Lisa Piercey said she won’t have a completed report by Friday, March 12.

The bill in Nashville would outlaw partisan primary elections in Shelby and Davidson counties – the state’s two biggest concentrations of Democratic voters.

Demand for child care far exceeds supply in Tennessee, but a bill passed Monday, March 8, by the state Senate could give state employees more options.

A resolution with nearly unanimous House GOP support is calling for proceedings that could remove Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle.

The new CDC guidance does not include children.