Here are the basics you need to know for the early voting period that opens Friday and continues through Sept. 28 - and a few informal tips on what to expect at the 18 voting sites.

Memphis voters begin deciding the winner and losers of the 2019 city elections Friday as early voting opens in advance of the Oct. 3 election day.

In Part Two of our series: U of M and UTHSC scientists use non-invasive "brain training" to treat developmental trauma.

With the Southern Heritage Classic and Cooper-Young Fest occupying neighboring districts on the same day, Memphis Police say they have a plan for traffic and safety this weekend.

State Rep. Bill Dunn, the Knoxville Republican who sponsored Tennessee’s voucher legislation affecting Shelby County and Metro Nashville school systems, will not run for re-election in 2020.

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris was honored with three others in Washington this week by the Memorial Foundation, the organization that raised the money and installed the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial.

Memphis-based IMC Companies has added a ninth company that offers logistics services in the Seattle and Tacoma markets.

The two-week voting period in advance of the Oct. 3 Memphis election day opens Sept. 13 at 18 sites across the city. At stake are 18 races for city offices featuring 78 candidates and one ballot question.

A federal judge Thursday blocked the state’s new voter registration law, a reaction to a large number of applications filed in Shelby County in 2018. 

Christ Community Health Services has received a New Access Point grant from the Bureau of Primary Health Care to extend health care services to East Jackson, Tennessee. 

Suit alleges Concorde said program would be accredited by the time students graduated. Students from unaccredited schools may not take national exam needed for employment.

For alumni of Jackson State University and Tennessee State University, the Southern Heritage Classic is like a family reunion. 

In Part One of our three-part series: Pediatricians and nurses at LeBonheur and psychologists at UTHSC screen children for poverty and trauma, and prescribe social services to help them.

The Tennessee Registry of Election Finance dismissed a penalty against 2018 House candidate Torrey Harris and gave Democratic Senate candidate Gabby Salinas a clean bill of health after a campaign account audit.

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris has appointed a chief of staff and human resources administrator. 

Olliette Murry-Drobot was executive director of the Family Safety Center of Memphis and Shelby County for nearly a decade. She left her job as head of the nonprofit this week, but she will remain in a consultant capacity as the organization searches for its next leader. 

More than 800 attorneys participated in the ranking of candidates as best qualified for the judicial races. In the race for city court clerk, the largest response to the field of nine contenders was "no opinion."

The University of Memphis will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Memphis State Eight at a commemorative event Sept. 18.

The "Pledge for Progress" is a promise on the priorities five council contenders would have if elected to the body, including a possible change to 13 single-member districts. Meanwhile, council Chairman Kemp Conrad and county commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. are the first public opponents of the sales tax hike ballot question on the Oct. 3 ballot.

Carnes Elementary and Northside High could be reborn as a charter school and a small business incubator, respectively, pending approval of the Shelby County Schools board.

The eight-acre site in Binghampton was one of the first blight emergencies faced by the administration of Mayor Jim Strickland, sitting vacant for three years. Once the brick single-story units are demolished, Elmington Capital of Nashville will build new, affordable housing.

Two days before Nashville's mayoral runoff election, new House Speaker Cameron Sexton has injected himself into local politics by criticizing Mayor David Briley over his recent actions related to immigration. Sexton's threat of withholding state money from the city is the same threat applied earlier this year to Shelby County by Tennessee’s lieutenant governor over immigration issues.

Debate over student growth versus proficiency has been ongoing for decades. Tennessee's William Sanders came up with the nation’s first system for evaluating teachers based on student growth, and the state was an early adopter of the model.

Volunteer Memphis is honoring the lives of those affected by 9/11 with a slate of service activities aimed at giving back to local first responders. The day's events include the dedication of plaques, free meals and military park cleanup projects.

For the first time ever, U.S. News & World Report has ranked Memphis among the nation's top public universities. That didn't happen by accident.