Harris offers new ‘healthyShelby 19’ plan to improve health outcomes
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris’ “healthyShelby 19” inititative to promote physical, dietary and mental fitness is set to kick off.
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris’ “healthyShelby 19” inititative to promote physical, dietary and mental fitness is set to kick off.
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said on New Year's Eve the city is making progress on poverty, but there are remaining challenges as he called for the improving local economy to include all Memphians.
Criminal justice reform promises to be a recurring theme in the 111th General Assembly in 2019, along with medical marijuana and possibly an immigration issue affecting in-state tuition.
Shelby County Commission Chairman Van Turner said he wants to make more changes to the MWBE ordinance in 2019.
Some issues county government would like to address in education in 2019 are pre-K initiatives, workforce development and school facilities.
A planned Memphis Sports Hall of Fame at AutoZone Park is picking up momentum with a project manager on board, an exhibit designer being recruited and fundraising coming in 2019.
City Hall is looking for mandatory jail time for road-rage convictions in the 2019 session of the Tennessee Legislature and a sports book on Beale Street as well as making it easier to get title to tax-delinquent property for tax sales.
There were more than votes to count in the 2018 local elections. There were voters, early voting locations and lawsuits – six of them – against the Shelby County Election Commission.
Memphis-based Sunshine Enterprise has announced funeral service details for four executives killed when a private plane crashed Dec. 20 in northwest Atlanta.
The Shelby County Commission will hold a comprehensive discussion on Juvenile Court at its next committee meeting in January.
County commissioner Tami Sawyer and activist Josh Spickler discuss flaws in the juvenile justice system and the roles a new assessment center and new juvenile detention center might play in reforming the system.
The Shelby County Schools board is facing some important decisions as it mulls outgoing superintendent Dorsey Hopson's latest school consolidation plan and welcomes an interim leader.
Tennessee's tax-credit liability of nearly $1 billion is raising questions about economic development incentives and transparency for taxpayers.
After finding checks stuffed in desks, no payments to agencies since 2016 and other issues, Shelby County Criminal Court Clerk Heidi Kuhn calls for an audit of her office.
Both sides in federal lawsuit over Memphis police surveillance request a year to work out differences outside of court ruling.