A sense of community built over six years at the coffee shop will leave lasting memories for customers and those who worked there.

The diversity of masks and their origins would be charming if it wasn’t yet another sign of official dysfunction in our collective approach to controlling a pandemic. 

New exchange will give buyers and sellers real-time data to enhance efficiencies within the food supply chain.

Three days into the first round of local business reopenings, there are lots of questions about the specific safeguards businesses are to take.

The recent data will likely serve as a of baseline when it comes to making future decisions on evaluating whether or not Shelby County’s cases have stabilized or shown a downward trend over a 14-day period.

The health department reported an additional death due to the virus, with the total now at 58. Shelby County has 2,948 confirmed cases of COVID-19, an increase of 26 cases from the day prior. That’s the lowest single-day total in a month.

Today is Wednesday, May 6, and the Memphis Zoo has a plan to reopen, a local company comes clean with new COVID-19 supplies, and Memphians know how to put the fun in funeral. 

Friends and family are remembering longtime yoga studio owner Sarla Nichols, who passed away over the Memorial Day weekend.

Highline Aftermarket found solutions to take back a little control over the virus while helping maintain its workforce and producing needed products. 

My family of five popped into our hairdresser’s backyard for a quarantine cut. We got good cuts over good conversation, muffled slightly by our masks.

The Memphis Zoo awaits word from the city on when it can reopen with limits on crowds and social distancing requirements enforced.

James D. "Jimmy" Edwards died on Oct. 23, 2018. This week, a $1,200 stimulus check arrived in the mail for the late Memphian.

I planned five hours of my work week at Shelby Farms, waking up bright and early, packing up lunch, protective gear, my 7-year-old and heading from my Downtown home to the park. Before long I ordered a hammock from Amazon and found us a spot near Beaver Lake. 

Frayser Community Schools recently launched its “Family Wellness Check” program. The goal is for staff to remain in touch with students and families weekly and help connect those families to resources such as food.

The council moved $354 million in bonds closer to a summer issuance. But the bonds took a back seat to more maneuvering in the question of whether MLGW should continue its 80-year relationship with TVA. And in the process, it looks like one rival to TVA may have been ruled out.

A proposed city ordinance that would require people to wear a face mask or some face covering in public places within the city cleared the first of three readings Tuesday, May 5, before the Memphis City Council.

Strickland says the city's $113.6 million federal CARES Act grant cannot be used to make up for revenue losses to the city as things stand now, causing a $40 million dip into the city's $78 million reserve fund without raising taxes, laying off employees or raising salaries for city employees.

Laird Veatch and the Memphis Athletic Department are working to adjust to new realities brought about by the coronavirus. 

Wells, whose journalistic roots were formed in the Memphis area, was honored by the Pulitzer Prize committee “For her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching.”

The Davidson County chancellor who ruled the state’s voucher law is unconstitutional is allowing the state to expedite a challenge before the Court of Appeals. And the Governor's Office and state Sen. Brian Kelsey are ready to go to the state Supreme Court if necessary.

In an online press conference Tuesday, Cohen also talked about offering mail-in absentee voting as an option to all in the November presidential general election.

Tuesday's total was the lowest single day total in six days, and the first time in that span the number of new tests fell below 1,200, much less 1,000.

The state has been working with the Tennessee Board of Dentistry to allow dentists to open starting Wednesday, the governor said. Small recreational facilities such as bowling alleys and putt-putt golf can reopen Friday.

Today is both Cinco de Mayo and Giving Tuesday Now. Yesterday, we reopened Shelby County's economy, the governor saw his private school voucher program run into a problem and local hair stylists got a surprise. 

FDA cracks down on testing process, says "flexibility never meant we would allow fraud."