The Health Department announced Friday that it will mandate masks in public.

According to a written COVID task force update, the daily positivity rate continues to climb.

The Lee Administration is paying an accounting firm $250,000 to help it properly spend more than $7 billion in federal funds by Dec. 30, the deadline for using CARES Act money connected to COVID-19 expenses.

The ordinance to be discussed is aimed at cases in which police leadership have moved to fire officers they found had used excessive force or deadly force improperly only to have those officers reinstated on appeal. The appeal is part of the city's civil service system.

Gov. Bill Lee announced Thursday, July 2, plans for a partnership with various agencies to enhance officer training and increase police training.

The endowment from the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis is the largest in LeMoyne-Owen College’s history.

Those 394 new cases come from 3,164 tests, a positivity rate of 12.5%.

South of Beale is heading east, a new, interactive COVID map could help guide your travels, and a former big box is getting turned into a one-stop shop. 

Shelby County ranks No. 4 on the 14 highest-risk counties for Tennessee, behind Macon, Davidson and Sevier counties.

Southwest Tennessee Community College plans to convert the closed Office Depot building near Downtown for its performing arts programs, for an array of student services, for a bit of retail to serve students and for a more prominent presence along busy Union Avenue.

U.S. District Judge Sheryl Lipman says the case isn't about her ordering changes at Shelby County Jail, but about whether vulnerable prisoners should be ordered released.

Governor signed an executive order providing legal cover for health care providers in the COVID-19 pandemic and said his administration is looking at the legal authority for local governments to mandate face masks.

The Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis is working to reduce poverty in the 38126 ZIP code, one of the poorest in the city. Booker T. Washington High School is at the center of the initiative.

On “Behind The Headlines,” the first-term council member said the proposals to come will push further on changing the Memphis Police Department beyond nonbinding resolutions approved last month. 

Gov. Bill Lee said Wednesday, July 1, he will address the Capitol Commission about removing the Nathan Bedford Forrest bust from the State Capitol’s second floor, but he didn’t say whether he would make a recommendation to the panel when it meets July 9.

During that span, Shelby County recorded its four highest single-day increases in new cases and exceeded a 10% daily positivity rate in 10 of the past 14 days. 

As of 5 p.m. June 29, more than 80% of ICU hospital beds in Shelby County were in use, overall. 

Memphis police began arresting protesters outside City Hall Wednesday morning, July 1, as they stood their ground and refused to leave.

It's Wednesday, July 1, and we're talking about SCS' new plan to reopen schools in the fall (both online and IRL), the Metal Museum getting a little Rust-y and how we might get more restrictions even without moving back to Phase 1. 

Starting in August, Shelby County Schools plans to offer both online and in-person instruction for students — and parents can choose which option they want.

Memphis police Tuesday evening, June 30, told protesters who have occupied the plaza outside City Hall for more than two weeks they need to move the encampment because of construction slated to begin on the building Wednesday morning.

An independent inspection of the jail at 201 Poplar was ordered by the court in an ongoing lawsuit to get medically vulnerable inmates released from the jail. 

Speaking to an online meeting of the Memphis Rotary Club, the U.S. senator from Tennessee said efforts to take down the statue of Andrew Jackson in Washington D.C. show "a terrible misunderstanding of history." Alexander also said the lawsuit seeking to do away with the Affordable Care Act is "flimsy."

U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn announced the shutdown of the University of Memphis Confucius Institute, saying students of Chinese culture and language at U.S. colleges should be “alarmed that the Chinese government has infiltrated their institutions.”

Mayor Jim Strickland will consider the committee's recommendation that the Metal Museum be Rust Hall's future occupant. If he accepts it, the City Council would have final say.