Klondike-Smokey City project will use an incentive first applied for the Binghampton Gateway Center. 

ESPN bracketologist Joe Lunardi is bullish on how far Memphis basketball can rise in NCAA Tournament seeding.

“Blue Oval City is really what changed my mind entirely, because that’s a real make-or-break for the future of Bartlett,” said alderman Kevin Quinn. 

A woman working in the hub at FedEx was killed early Friday morning, according to the Memphis Police Department.

Inside the barbershop and at the basketball games, the people of Dalzell, S.C., laugh about just how similar Ja Morant and his father are.

After an 18-month apartment moratorium, Boyle Investment Co. revised its plan for Viridian and resubmitted the project to Germantown. The project is one of the first in the Forest Hill Heights area.

Bartlett’s Side Porch Steakhouse is back, saved by a group of regulars who’ve made this neighborhood hangout even more of the neighborhood. 

A bill by state Rep. London Lamar would require data sharing between police departments and the state health department, and would require TDH to produce an annual report on the public health impacts of gun violence.

Trojans take away Fayette Academy’s offensive rebounding in semifinal victory.

Douglass forward Tyler Johnson and Houston forward Anna Lee Avery as this week’s Daily Memphian basketball players of the week. The boys voting was the closest of the season.

The Safe Community Action Plan is aiming for a reduction in violent crime and property crime over the next five years.

“I built those houses,” said Henry Turley. “There’s nothing wrong with those houses that should cause the residents to have to move out.”

At the noon Thursday, Feb. 17, filing deadline to get on the county primary ballot, there was only one contested Republican primary. But every incumbent Democratic official holding countywide office had challengers in the May primaries.

Speaking Thursday, Feb. 17, at the Frayser Exchange Club, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said the city’s chronic power outages during frequent storms is mostly about the trees that dominate the city’s landscape. Strickland says any solution to the continuing outages will be expensive.

The University of Memphis will kick off the football season Sept. 3 against Mississippi State. North Texas and North Alabama are the only teams it is playing this year that were not on last year’s schedule. 

The series will both examine “the ruthless intersection of sports, music and street culture” in Memphis.

The Grizzlies are ready to bring Memphis to Cleveland. 

This week, Collage Dance Collective is back on stage after a two-year hiatus, artists from the University of Memphis’ student-run record label perform at Crosstown Arts, and prog-metal band Coheed and Cambria is at Graceland.

Senior standout Chandler Jackson leads the way in a pair of region victories as CBHS remains undefeated.

Tipton-Rosemark players end the regular season at the head of the class.

A third man accused in connection with Young Dolph’s death has been released from an Indiana jail, and local authorities have issued an arrest warrant for him. 

“Everybody who knows me knows that I’m always going to mention where I’m from with everything that I do, because everything that I do is for the place that I’m from.”

Ja Morant had 44 points and Desmond Bane scored 30 in the last game before the All-Star break. 

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He’s the latest Tiger to secure an NIL partnership.

The former vocational high school at 1212 Vollintine Ave. will become a multi-use space for vocational skills training, workforce development, multifamily housing, health care services, performing arts and more.