Shelby County plans to invest more than $15 million total in purchasing and converting the facility into a juvenile detention center. 

Tourism executive estimates 35,000 industry-related workers in Memphis area have been temporarily laid off.

Immunocompromised individuals and their families must be extra careful as they are more susceptible to diseases and viruses. However, with limited information about the coronavirus, doctors are asking them to practice guidelines health officials already have in place.

Coronavirus has disrupted some of my friends’ lives far more than it’s unsettled mine. My senior friends won’t get to have graduation. And my international friends have a real dilemma: Should they stay in the States or go home?

A Shelby County Sheriff's employee has tested positive for the coronavirus. 

Here is everything you need to know to watch Tuesday's meeting of the Memphis City Council -- a rare online-only session of the city's legislative body during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Tuesday council session includes setting aside $2 million in the city budget for pandemic responses like reducing transit fees and better funding the Mid-South Food Bank.

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris said Monday he and municipal mayors are issuing Safer at Home orders and closing non-essential businesses.

None of the changes in vote totals affect the outcome of the Super Tuesday presidential primaries and countywide primaries for General Sessions Court Clerk in Shelby County. The meeting is one of the last in-person deliberations by a public body as elected bodies move to online or conference call public meetings.

FedEx Express worked over the weekend to set up a priority shipping network to expedite processing of coronavirus test specimens from more than 50 testing sites in 12 states.

In Memphis, hospitals are searching for new vendors, buying outside their purchasing organization lists.

The teachers at Bailey Station Elementary missed their students. So they threw a giant (no joking) coronavirus parade!

Memphis Tourism officials are encouraging visitors to take walking or bicycling tours of attractions like Big River Crossing and parks.

Coronavirus could pose further delays in the NCAA investigation of the Memphis basketball program.

YMCA is running 62 meal-distribution sites across Shelby County from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday. 

The order by Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland is the next step in a state of civil emergency he declared last week.

As we navigate through this difficult time of dealing with the coronavirus, it is important to capture those instances where Memphians are coming together for each other. 

As the number of COVID-19 cases in Shelby County continue to rise, Just City, a nonprofit criminal justice reform organization, is armed with $50,000 from the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization and another $25,000 from an anonymous donor with the intention of bailing out several Shelby County Jail inmates this week who are believed to be vulnerable to the virus.

Happy Monday, Memphis. It's March 23 and drive-thru testing is expected to begin at Tiger Lane today. We've also got weddings, virtual funerals, gun sales and other things related to this snow day times 10,000. 

The Tennessee Department of Health releases the latest numbers: 93 cases of coronavirus confirmed in Shelby County and 615 cases in Tennessee.

Whatever you think of his policy priorities, Strickland prides himself on being a data-driven executive, and his managerial seriousness has served him, and the city, well in this unprecedented moment. 

Typical Sunday attendance is about 70 at Trinity United Methodist Church, about 40 at Shiloh United Methodist in Fayette County. Their virtual worship service had 400 views on Trinity’s page and 322 on Shiloh’s page.

We will soon stop daily deliveries to protect both our clients and our volunteers and staff. That’s why we’re working now to get as many frozen and shelf-stable meals into seniors’ homes as we can, in case a day comes when we can’t deliver at all.

More than three dozen citizens have pulled qualifying petitions for the Senate seat now held by Lamar Alexander. That includes four Memphians. A week and a half from the filing deadline, 16 have filed.

Realtors say they intend to tell potential homebuyers to remain in their cars if too many of them show up to open houses at the same time.