The jump in electric bills is directly tied to customers using much more electricity during the September “heat dome” that hovered over Memphis and Shelby County for days. 

The Memphis City Council will vote on a nonbinding resolution calling for the removal of ICE and National Guard personnel from the Memphis Safe Task Force.

State Rep. and Congressional candidate Justin J. Pearson held a press conference endorsing a data center moratorium ahead of a possible City Council vote.

In 2025, an official said the data center project would create more than 250 jobs with an investment of more than $500 million.

The Republican congressman said Tuesday in Collierville that the bill could pass Congress this year, possibly as part of a larger package.

If Bluff City Pickleball moves into Liberty Park, it could save the city up to $280,000 a year in operating costs.

Four Kroger stores will now carry pork and beef products from the Como, Mississippi-based farm. 

MLGW CEO Doug McGowen told the Memphis City Council that the utility’s electric distribution system has enough capacity to accommodate nearly double the residential customers.

Admission for the festival is free.

The soul and funk banded founded by Memphian Maurice White will be making a stop in the area on its 2027 tour.

It’s one of two payment-in-lieu-of-taxes applications the Downtown Memphis Commission’s Center City Revenue Finance Corp. will hear at their Oct. 13 meeting.

How the oversight board determines what “ready” means could revive early criticisms from MSCS that the appointees lacked necessary structures to assume power over the school system.

Ahead of Wednesday’s showdown with rival Houton, the Dragons are first in Tennessee and third in the nation. Not that they would know.

Mayor Paul Young also talked about the return of trolleys, work toward a new Memphis Grizzlies lease at FedExForum as well as the status of the convention center hotel the city bought and other topics.