Take a walk down memory lane with our collection of 2022 photos from The Daily Memphian.

Billions of dollars in expansions and renovations are planned for several local hospitals in 2023.

Southland Greyhound Park opened in 1956 and catered to locals, but with expanded gaming, a new hotel and mobile sports books, the facility is now its parent company’s most lucrative. 

Ford began the first phases of construction at BlueOval City during the past year, and the automaker has continued to expand its presence in West Tennessee. 

“Our resolve is not to get ahead of ourselves, beyond the moment we are currently living in. We resolve to be in each moment fully and bring our kindest, most generous self to that situation.”

Coming to a stage near you this month: A veteran acoustic guitarist, a rock opera that stars its writer and the return of GloRilla.

It takes a village to defend Zion Williamson, and the Grizzlies again had the right mix. 

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One of the most beloved players of the 2000s is joining the current Tigers staff in a voluntary role, a source close to the situation told The Daily Memphian.

The forecast includes good news for Tigers basketball, Ryan Silverfield, the Grizzlies and Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium. But John Martin says the future may be less rosy for the Showboats and those who want to replace the coliseum with a soccer stadium.

“I pray that all of us can live in the moment and that we can get some of the best moments we can out of life” in 2023, host Eric Brinson said.

Led by Jalen Cook, Tulane is a clear-cut better team than USF on paper. So, it’ll be especially important for the Tigers are alert after their scare versus the Bulls.

Some of us are pumped about the new year, but let’s take a sec to check out some pics from the final week of 2022, which brought outages, worship amid outages, and a disgruntled fan at a record-breaking bowl game.

BlueCross members will lose access to Methodist hospitals unless an agreement is reached by Sunday, Jan. 1.

After the struggles of 2020 and 2021, the restaurant scene in Memphis showed promise of recovery in 2022.

The FTC’s Contact Lens Rule requires prescribers to provide copies of prescriptions automatically — that is, the patient shouldn’t have to ask for it — and at no extra charge.

Carpenter Art Garden adds Jazmin Miller as executive director.

Here’s a quick and easy New Year’s Day meal that gives you all the luck and prosperity without the guilt: This is full of flavor and good-for-you vegetables.

“During the storm, we used text alerts to communicate to 86,940 of our customers,” an MLGW press release said.

The last Memphis City Council Scorecard of 2022 finds the 13-member body unanimous on Klondike revitalization and a tourism surcharge for the city’s convention center hotel. A negotiated settlement of the damage deposit for Memphis In May’s use of the redesigned Tom Lee Park is another matter for another year.

New Memphis assistant coach comes from UAB and is a former starting quarterback at Vanderbilt.

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The U of M spring semester starts Jan. 17 but campus reopens for business Jan. 3. It is the second local university to announce damages from the recent winter weather.

Local contractors are seeing and saying similar things: They’re all busy, and they’re all working as quickly as they can.

Gov. Bill Lee granted Oscar Smith a reprieve after finding TDOC failed to properly test lethal injection chemicals, then retained a former federal prosecutor to investigate why it happened.

A suspect is in critical condition after a struggle and shootout with Memphis Police Department officers Friday, Dec. 30.