Also, a college adds new faculty, an architecture firm grows, a top real estate agent joins a storied firm and a local grocer adds to its leadership.

U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker has announced millions in federal funding for road improvements in DeSoto County.

Jeff Dawson, operating as Nacks Properties LLC, bought the Poplar Avenue building currently home to Miestro, a home theater systems store, for $750,000.

Chattanooga and Nashville — but not Memphis — sued to stop the state from taking over metro airport boards, allowing them to be replaced with mostly state-appointed officials.

The giant, blue building was bought by a retailer.

Residents had mixed feelings about both selling their home to SpaceXAI and the noise its power plant creates.

Assessor Javier Bailey Sr. says empty Downtown office towers and lost tourism spending are shrinking the county’s tax base. He is planning a November summit to build a five-year strategy.

The City of Millington is partnering with Alliance Healthcare to address mental health issues, a problem that has risen after several teen suicides at the city’s high school.

FedEx flew 6-year-old Ping Ping and 5-year-old female Fu Shuang nearly 8,000 miles to their new home at Zoo Atlanta.

The winning artwork will appear on the 2027-28 Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp. Sadly, no readers met Geoff Calkins' challenge to predict the winner.

Latasha Peeples, raised in a motel by a grandmother who gave what she could, started a donation drive in 2022 that now gives equipment to up to 100 kids a year. This year’s drive is Oct. 3.

For Adam Queen, growing plants is both a hobby and a career.

The building, owned by the same family since 1918, will have three boxcar-style kitchens, a bar, a stage and a planned video game room.

Duncan watched his father survive prostate cancer and saw a close friend lose his dad to it. Then came his own diagnosis in January.

“Take a honky-tonk, sweep up all the sawdust, replace a couple of shots with a couple of glasses of wine, with some cool Memphis music and Western memorabilia,” said one of the three owners. 

SpaceXAI offers to buy real estate from some Southaven residents if they pledge not to join a class-action lawsuit filed in June over the company’s North Mississippi power plant.

Two women are teaming up on an affordable-housing development in North Memphis, another move in the momentum to bring more new homes to the city.

“Because of the energy infrastructure that (Elon Musk is) getting, not just from Tennessee but also from Mississippi, you could see the greatest boom since FedEx in this town. You need to double down here.”

Starbucks is planning to close about 1% of its 18,000 North America locations. 

A Texas-based company alleges SpaceXAI contractors never paid for its services, marking the third lien against the artificial intelligence company this year.

A new Academy Sports in Millington is part of a stream of businesses coming to the North Shelby County suburb.

Two law firms filed a federal class action lawsuit against SpaceXAI over noise and vibration from its Whitehaven and Southaven facilities.

The second oldest church in Memphis, First Presbyterian Church has been at the corner of Poplar Avenue and B.B. King Boulevard since 1832. After 194 years, its flock is searching for a new home. 

Memphis Tourism announced that Shelby County drew 10.3 million visitors in 2025 — less than 2024 — but industry experts share a positive outlook for the years to come.

Leaders said gas‑driven freight costs hurt results but expect conditions to ease in the new fiscal year.