MLGW ready for winter weather, Doug McGowen says
Memphis Light, Gas and Water CEO Doug McGowen said the utility has been working to insulate key equipment during the cold.
Memphis Light, Gas and Water CEO Doug McGowen said the utility has been working to insulate key equipment during the cold.
The Shelby County Board of Commissioners is moving toward creating a “governance plan,” which would set goals for both the elected school board and Memphis-Shelby County Schools Superintendent Marie Feagins.
The utility’s outage map showed about 33 outages and more than 10,000 customers without power within the Interstate-240 loop.
Marchers remember Tyre Nichols, the Landers Center head is fired and owners of a Cooper-Young sober home file a lawsuit.
Groups huddled in the cold in view of the police Skycam that caught much of the grisly action on Castlegate Lane in Southeast Memphis on Jan. 7, 2023.
None of the provisions can take effect until or unless state laws are changed to permit the provisions in the ordinance.
The operators have been trying to open a recovery home in Cooper-Young since last summer.
An independent arbitrator ruled the restaurant owes Ja Morant money for breaching a deal it had with the basketball star.
“It is a physics problem, not a political problem, on how much energy can be provided here,” MLGW CEO Doug McGowen told the Memphis City Council on Tuesday.
Nick Walker has been the head of Memphis Parks since 2019.
Beale Street has safety measures in case of attack, the City Council takes up gun reform again and Zach Edey’s haters may be eating their words.
In the wake of the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans that killed 14 people, questions about Beale Street security are the latest concerns for those who try to plan for the worst.
Memphis-Shelby County Schools Superintendent Marie Feagins “will not resign” from her post, she wrote to school board Chair Joyce Dorse Coleman, firing back against efforts to remove her as the city’s top education leader.
A group of Memphians opposed to the gates, including a Golden Globe-nominated actress, has retained Alex Wharton of the Wharton Law Firm to look into potential First Amendment issues associated with the proposed barriers.
The ordinance, which is up for the first of three votes, would make a set of gun-ownership limits a part of the city code of ordinances.
DOJ report will play into Nichols suit, a “kooky” eatery has closed in Cordova and we’ve got a look at Memphis running clubs.
More police spending does not always equate to lower crime rates. Memphis and Atlanta spend almost the same on police per person per year but have seen vastly different results.
Also happening this week: Graceland celebrates what would have been Elvis Presley’s 90th birthday.
Runners can rack up the miles with like-minded friends on trails, through scavenger hunts or with a beer at the end.
The Daily Memphian reviewed claims about overtime pay, a check donation and a grant application, and compiled what is known about them.
The Mid-South will experience weather whiplash in the next 24 hours as a significant cold front ushers in the coldest air of the season this week.
Violent crime and efforts to battle it were among the top stories of the year as discussed in a reporters’ roundtable on “Behind The Headlines.”
Judge Mark Norris made the ruling after attorneys for Tyre Nichols’ estate and his mother argued the DOJ investigation into the Memphis Police Department contained further evidence for the civil rights lawsuit.
A connected resolution would also hold up funding for the new Frayser school project for three months and urges school leaders to work through a mediator.
U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee talked with reporters online after taking the oath of office Friday, Jan. 3, to begin her second six-year term in the upper chamber.