While Halbert is now cooperating, County Commission Chair Shante Avant said she may call a special meeting of the body if the cooperation stops. 

With no more scheduled meetings and winter break rapidly approaching, it looks like around 35 Memphis schools will go without cleaning starting Jan. 1, 2026.

When or if three former Memphis police officers convicted federally in the death of Tyré Nichols will receive a new trial remains up in the air. So where does that leave the two who pleaded guilty? 

Former bank CEO Robert “Bob” Hartheimer will plead guilty to a series of child pornography charges.

Crime keeps dropping. Police say major offenses fell again in November, reaching their lowest level in nearly three years.

At a hearing that displayed a clash of environmental activism and the city’s business establishment, the Air Pollution Control Board said the controversial air emissions permit will stand. But it may come with a policy change.

A replacement has not yet been named.

It’s the last full, holiday-free week of the year and time to get business done.

East Memphis liquor store gives license another shot, sheriff’s deputies will train under ICE and the cobblestones are finally restored.

The Memphis Trousers Affair: One night in 1986, a former Australian prime minister endured his worst day in the Bluff City.

The city needs sales-tax growth at Liberty Park to pay bonds at the Memphis Sports and Events Center. To generate that tax growth, it needs hotel and apartments to become something more than hypothetical. 

Also happening this week: MSCS holds a meeting on the possible closure of Georgian Hills Elementary School.

The commission votes on a resolution that asks County Clerk Wanda Halbert to cooperate with the regular audit of county finances. Auditors say Halbert isn’t cooperating as a Dec. 31 state law nears.

The present St. Patrick Catholic Church was built in 1905 but the congregation dates back to 1866 on the same property south of FedExForum.

As far as anyone knew, the greater chestnut weevil was long gone, a victim of the same blight that has killed an estimated 4 billion chestnut trees in the U.S. in less than a century.

As he’s sworn in as West Tennessee’s top federal prosecutor, Michael Dunavant touts the achievements his office has made since his return in October.

The owner of The Station, a proposed high-end liquor store in East Memphis, will appear before the city’s Alcohol Commission next week to ask for a permit.

Beginning late Saturday night, temperatures in Memphis will free fall.

Memphis’ historic cobblestone landing formally opened Friday after at least 19 years of bureaucracy, red tape and the rise and fall of the Mississippi River.

Local community organizers gathered Friday to discuss a conversation with Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner about participating in an ICE training program, and urged him to back out of the agreement.

A future cloud computing hub — at the site of a another development that never panned out — is among the topics on “Behind The Headlines” a reporters’ roundtable.

Zach Edey is injured, the old 616 could see new life and Midtown is getting a salad spot. 

This weekend is awash in holiday parades — and you can even see Daily Memphian newsletter editor Bianca Phillips in person, during a Downtown parade. 

After years of planning, renovations and security-equipment purchases, Memphis-Shelby County Schools debuted its “Real Time Safety Center” on Thursday. “We know seconds matter” during threats, the district’s interim safety and security chief said.

Some said that Michael Lightman, who contributed to the real estate landscape of Memphis, had the “Midas touch.”