There are 219 article(s) tagged Shelby County:

• April 2019

  • Budget process begins for Shelby County

    Shelby County is holding a budget retreat Saturday to allow newly and returning county officials to discuss the current budget as well as next steps for the upcoming budget cycle.

    By Omer Yusuf April 06, 2019

  • Shelby County adds a third grand jury to reduce case backlog, jail wait times

    Shelby County has added a third grand jury in hopes of reducing the length of time defendants wait in jail while also whittling down the case backlog.

    By Omer Yusuf and Yolanda Jones April 03, 2019

  • Construction begins on new Shelby County Health Department headquarters

    Construction has begun on a new $25 million Shelby County Health Department headquarters. 

    By Omer Yusuf April 02, 2019

  • Collierville wrestling with how to proceed on Quinn Ridge project

    Collierville is wrestling with what to do about a large-scale project proposed in the town's annexation reserve area by developer John Porter.

    By Abigail Warren April 02, 2019

• March 2019

  • County Commission internship program to host more than 300 students this summer

    More than 300 students in Shelby County will have the opportunity to intern at the County Commission’s internship program this summer.

    By Omer Yusuf March 13, 2019

  • Power & Tel planning world headquarters at edge of Collierville

    Power & Tel plans to move its headquarters from Binghampton to the edge of Collierville. 

    By Abigail Warren March 12, 2019

• February 2019

  • Harris calls for focus to switch from tax breaks to more workforce investments

    County Mayor Lee Harris gave his first State of the County address Friday, calling for a new direction in the economic development discussion. 

    By Omer Yusuf February 15, 2019

• January 2019

  • Activists outraged after man in paper jumpsuit released into frigid temperatures

    A man in a paper jumpsuit outside 201 Poplar is raising questions in the minds of social justice advocates.

    By Yolanda Jones January 31, 2019

  • Shelby County searching for new historian

    The Shelby County Commission is expected to appoint a new county historian at its Feb. 11 meeting. 

    By Omer Yusuf January 29, 2019

  • Shelby County sued over minority contractor program

    A Memphis mechanical contractors association has filed a federal lawsuit seeking $500,000 in compensatory damages from Shelby County, claiming reverse discrimination.

    By Yolanda Jones and Omer Yusuf January 25, 2019

  • County announces $19 million utility assistance program

    A new utility assistance program, "Keep the Lights on," is now available to help those struggling to pay their utility bills in Shelby County.

    By Natalie Pilgrim January 22, 2019

  • Airbnb says Shelby hosts pocketed 53 percent more in 2018

    Airbnb said Shelby County hosts in 2018 served 51 percent more guests and took in 53 percent more in revenues.

    By Wayne Risher January 08, 2019

• December 2018

  • Criminal Court Clerk Heidi Kuhn calls for forensic audit of her office

    After finding checks stuffed in desks, no payments to agencies since 2016 and other issues, Shelby County Criminal Court Clerk Heidi Kuhn calls for an audit of her office.

    By Yolanda Jones December 26, 2018

• November 2018

  • Memphis and Shelby County homicide victims remembered with ceremony

    Jaylon Cohen was out with friends enjoying Fourth of July fireworks when he was shot in the parking lot of a Taco Bell in Bartlett.

    By Yolanda Jones November 27, 2018

  • Nelson: Is Big Shelby back?

    Memphians of a certain vintage may recall a time when the rest of Tennessee disparaged us as Big Shelby. It was a backhanded way of expressing East and Middle Tennessee’s resentment of – and, truth be told, our own vaulting pride in – the power wielded by Memphis and Shelby County in the state’s politics and government.

    By Michael Nelson November 01, 2018

• October 2018

  • Justice Department ends federal oversight of Juvenile Court

    The Department of Justice said Friday it has ended its six-year federal oversight of Shelby County Juvenile Court.

    By Omer Yusuf October 20, 2018

  • Trial set for August 2019 for mother charged in deaths of 4 children

    Shanynthia Gardner, charged with killing her four young children at her Shelby County apartment in 2016, will go to trial next summer, but whether it will be heard by a jury or the judge has not been decided.

    By Yolanda Jones October 18, 2018

  • Dale Lane, Shelby County Office of Preparedness director, announces retirement

    Shelby County Office of Preparedness director Dale Lane has announced his retirement, according to a news release sent Thursday.

    By Omer Yusuf October 12, 2018

• September 2018

  • Fire Chief Dennis Wolf provides updated status of new Lakeland Fire Department

    Dennis Wolf, Lakeland’s future fire chief, expects the suburb’s new fire department will begin answering calls in July, 2019, becoming the last government entity in Shelby County to operate its own fire service. Wolf, former fire chief in Germantown, provided insight on the new department for officials and residents at a Lakeland Town Hall meeting on Tuesday, Sept.18.

    By Natalie Pilgrim September 23, 2018