A year since the presidential executive order that created the Memphis Safe Task Force was announced in the Oval Office, its impact and future are still being debated, touted and condemned.

You have a chance this week to watch “The Matrix” on the big screen — the really big screen — at the Pink Palace, take a parking spot over as a pocket park and get your ballet on, very quickly. 

Flipping through “Knowledge Bowl” back pages, sorting through a mayoral social media spat and taking attendance at Memphis-Shelby County Schools. 

“The new MATA board reveals a glaring disconnect. With one exception, they are almost entirely corporate executives and administrators who likely do not use the system they oversee.”

Not all high school competition takes place on the gridiron or hardwood. For nearly four decades, a lot of it has taken place under the bright lights of a TV studio down by the river.

The family of a worker who died after a fall in 2025 at SpaceXAI’s Colossus II Campus is seeking $30 million in damages. 

Shelby County residents preparing to participate in the upcoming Nov. 3 election must complete their voter-registration applications by Monday, Oct. 5.

Some were 8 in the 1960s, and some were 8 in the 2010s. And while many of us are from Memphis, we also hail from West Palm, Buffalo, Tacoma and beyond.

The heat dome over Tennessee the Washington Post said was the strongest on the planet is a pot of scalding water, and we are the crawfish.

As residents weigh in online, debates over SpaceXAI, the Safe Task Force and city leadership collide in one highly public exchange.

Kyler Gilkey’s second bid for public office this year was shut down by the Tennessee Secretary of State’s Office because it was his second attempt at a state House of Representatives seat, albeit a different one.

It’ll be a new school with a fresh look and state-of-the-art technology.

SpaceXAI is moving full steam ahead while Memphis City Council wants to pump the brakes on data center expansion.

The former Hamilton High football coach drew the loudest response as nine members of the Class of 2026 — including John Calipari, Stephen Gostkowski and Larry Kenon — celebrated Memphis sports and the power of community.

The state is pouring $9 million this year into a TBI task force given wide-reaching authority across the state, including working with the Memphis Safe Task Force.

MSCS continues to lose students year over year, with over 2,000 fewer enrolled in the district compared to last August.

Former Kid University workers appear in court, protesters want ICE out of the airport and we share the chain restaurants we’d love to see.

The Memphis Zoo recently began a project focused on the wildlife of West Tennessee.

Local “Bird Watchers” brought their issues with how ICE agents are treating detainees at Wilson Air Center to the Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority. 

Beverly Turnage, a 43-year-old woman, was transported to Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis in critical condition. 

Kyler Gilkey was declared ineligible at Monday’s deadline for write-in candidates in the Nov. 3 election. It’s the latest wrinkle in a complex political puzzle. Meanwhile, five other contenders did qualify.

Mississippi Department of Transportation Northern Commissioner John Caldwell will not seek reelection, he said in a recent video announcement.

Three former daycare workers pleaded not guilty to involvement in the death of 6-year-old Winter Jones.

City Council may ask the Task Force to leave, 201 Poplar inmates sue over jail conditions and croissants are coming to Cooper-Young.

Former Landers Center Executive Director Todd Mastry claims he was fired because members of the DeSoto County Board of Supervisors wanted him to stop booking Black artists. New court filings now reveal additional details.