Winners of the Hamilton Eye Institute Race for Sight 5K at Shelby Farms. 

Ford now needs to secure an environmental permit before moving forward with site work at its planned $5.6 billion electric vehicle plant in West Tennessee.

Dr. Michelle Taylor, Shelby County Health Department director, said the decision to end the regularly scheduled meetings is a result of improvement over the last few weeks. 

“I think it’s really important to memorialize these events because human nature is to try to cover up painful parts of our history,” Lynching Sites Project of Memphis board member Laura Faith Kebede tells Eric Barnes. 

This week, PXLS covers video game music at Crosstown Arts, Stax opens an exhibition of 1970s nightclub photography and Alton Brown Live stops at the Orpheum Theatre.

The Grizzlies know that the shooting must improve to win in the playoffs. “Maybe there are some things schematic-wise and spacing that I can work with,” Coach Taylor Jenkins said. 

The East Memphis dining area will get its first brewery and taproom when Hook Point Brewing Co. opens there this summer.

The fanfare is back for the 47th Annual Silky Sullivan St. Patrick’s Parade on Saturday, March 12. 

Rizzo’s is the second popular restaurant in the past week to announce it’s closing; recovery from COVID is taking a toll.

The Midtown restaurant will be closed for about six months during its renovation and expansion. 

The porch festival returns, offering an unconventional way to enjoy a wide range of music, including metal, bluegrass, Americana and country. 

As it fights to save its Memphis power contract, the Tennessee Valley Authority is irritating critics by an alleged lack of transparency that includes withholding the salary of its West Region vice president Mark Yates.

We also give some insight on which seniors might be coming back, and a friendship between two Memphians.

Shaquille O’Neal said he told Ja Morant that he’s the best player in the NBA, and the point guard believes his team is getting close to being playoff ready. 

Barksdale served as sheriff from 1976 to 1986.

“This couldn’t be a more transformative project,” says Aaron Stewart. “The suppliers are already looking. ...”

Social activist Rev. William J. Barber II joined The Starbucks 7 and local activists Wednesday, March 9, in a march to protest what they say was a local attempt at union-busting by the Seattle-based coffee chain. 

The Election Commission’s decision not to open early-voting sites at churches during the Easter weekend is renewing charges of voter suppression.

Penny Hardaway wasn’t named AAC Coach of the Year Wednesday. But no coach in the country has done more in the past two months.

Plant Based Heat is one of 28 local Black-owned restaurants participating in Memphis Black Restaurant Week.

Alindsey Long leads Tigers with 17 points.

Kontji Anthony, evening co-anchor at WMC-TV Action News 5, announced in a letter dated March 7 that she will not seek to remain in her position when her contract expires in April.

Even after the energizing regular-season finale win over Houston, the Tigers want to eliminate any doubts about NCAA.

Desserts have been everywhere lately, and they’ve been hard to resist.

“This business depends on the walking traffic,” said owner Rida AbuZaineh. “It’s like walking on the beach, where there is ice cream.”