Rates of HPV vaccination dropped 75% early in pandemic; experts say the lull leaves adolescents vulnerable to future cancers.

Acting Federal Highway Administrator Stephanie Pollock was in Memphis Thursday, May 20, to talk with local leaders and officials about repairs to the bridge.

While 51 pieces from local high school students will hang in the airport, six were given special recognition. The 14th annual High School Visual Arts and Photography Competition is part of Memphis International Airport’s Art in the Airport program.

Seeking children at high risk for severe COVID disease. 

The EDGE Board on Wednesday, May 19, approved tax incentives for Walgreens’ high-tech distribution center, Ampro’s expansion in Frayser and the renovation of an old shopping center in the Heights.

Millington is no stranger to solar farms; this newest one should come online in late 2023. 

A new Downtown Memphis report tackles this awkward time when gas-powered vehicles still dominate but when the age of electric vehicles is just beyond the horizon. 

The InStride network includes the U of M and four U.S. Carnegie Level 1 Research universities, plus campuses on three other continents.

Planet Fitness will not move into the former Bed Bath & Beyond space in Germantown Plaza. However, a men’s hair shop will open on the north side of the property soon.

Chef Sobie Johnson of Flying Sobie’s Gourmet Kitchen will provide the food at the second Ghost River location.

Rhodes’ vice president for academic affairs cited a lack of interest among students for the decision to end its academic major in theater. 

Officials from Tennessee and Arkansas said they are working “around the clock” to repair the Hernando DeSoto Bridge, but it could take “several months easily.” 

LBOE on Madison will end its seven-year run next month, and a small local chain will open in its space.

Artists Kong Wee Pang and Jay Crum will turn one of The Ravine’s 60-foot-tall silos into public art. The artist for the linear park’s second silo has not been announced yet.

The first tenants of the 160-acre mixed-use development in Lakeland should begin moving in toward the end of the year, some of them in Phase 1 available for holiday shoppers.

Officials with the Tennessee Department of Transportation have come up with a plan to repair the Hernando DeSoto Bridge, but there’s no timetable yet for when the bridge might reopen.

Unemployment benefits will soon be dropping in Tennessee. Employers are hoping that will help convince more people to return to work as the economy improves.

Many in Memphis have thought the river bluff provides some protection against tornadoes, but is that really the case? 

It specializes now in high-dollar chemotherapy drugs, which it ships for free to people who qualify.

Semmes Murphey neurosurgeon Kevin Foley helped develop the system the FDA approved in March. On March 22, he completed his first surgery using it. 

Most of the 6,700 Defense Department personnel who work throughout Shelby County are employed at Naval Support Activity Mid-South in Millington.

Some businesses, churches and other organizations feel paralyzed with how to provide a safe, potentially mask-less environment without knowing people’s vaccination status.

Circuit Court Judge Felicia Corbin Johnson has decided to make a ruling on whether a private oil pipeline company can legally seize access to land through eminent domain proceedings, even though the original lawsuits initiating those proceedings have been withdrawn.

River traffic has resumed along the Mississippi River, averting a potential economic catastrophe, but there’s no relief yet for motorists who want to use the Hernando DeSoto Bridge to cross the river.

Drone footage shows the Hernando DeSoto Bridge may have been damaged since 2019.