Polls are open across Shelby County from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Tuesday, May 5. Here’s some helpful info if you are voting today.

A special session of the Tennessee General Assembly starts today — the same day as the Shelby County primary. 

Shelby County will back an MSCS lawsuit, the Chamber looks for a new leader and a taproom is ghosting Beale.

Here’s what is at stake and what to look for in the vote totals Tuesday evening.

Shelby County commissioners voted to take money from county reserve funds to pay the possible cost of suing the state over a pending state takeover of Memphis-Shelby County Schools.

St. Mary’s officially has a replacement for when current head Albert Throckmorton retires. 

All three Arlington school board incumbents on Tuesday’s ballot are unopposed in the Republican Primary. With no Democrats running for the offices, the trio are set for another term.

The FBI probe of Rep. Torrey Harris centers on suspicions of an improper political action committee.

My mother, along with a handful of other Black Panola County residents, registered to vote during one of the most precarious times for Black people in the South. It came just six days after the bodies of three Civil Rights workers were discovered in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Mississippi.

The beginning of May brings us a whole week of Memphis art and fashion, plus an election day and the NBA draft lottery. 

Protesters block xAI, and you can buy a recording studio and a record store with everything in it.

The state invested more than $300 million for UTHSC. Here’s how it will help bring in “top-notch students” and address the critical nursing and physician shortage in Tennessee.

Here’s everything you need to know about voting in Shelby County on the May 5 election day and a look at what is at stake in this election along with some trends in voter turnout.

A bill passed by the state legislature will create an eight-member board to oversee Tennessee Bureau of Investigation operations in Memphis.

A few decades ago, stars like Tom Cruise, Matt Damon and Reese Witherspoon were shooting movies in Memphis. Longtime local film commissioner Linn Sitler discusses what’s changed and why there’s hope for the future. 

Also happening this week: It’s Memphis Art & Fashion Week, and Germantown wants residents to help plan for its future.

The House Democratic Caucus chair is calling for the late G.A. Hardaway’s seat in the Tennessee House of Representatives to be filled before the special session on Tuesday. 

While Lausanne is growing its physical campus, adding nontraditional learning environments, officials say the East Memphis private school isn’t looking to increase enrollment.

A new research project done by the University of Memphis scientists could save West Tennessee farmers by helping identify when a disease outbreak threatens their peach crop. 

The political roundup connects the dots on the call to redraw U.S. House district lines ahead of August Congressional primaries to the broader call by Republicans for more state control of the city.

Stories of Stones event guides guests through historic Elmwood Cemetery, where many burial markers provide much more than names and dates.

A landmark Supreme Court ruling has put the boundaries for Tennessee’s nine congressional districts in play, especially the Memphis-centric district now represented by Democratic U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen.

The commission will try again on a resolution to provide county funding for a legal challenge of the state’s pending takeover of Memphis-Shelby County Schools.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has called a special session of the Tennessee Legislature to consider redrawing the lines of the state’s nine Congressional districts in a bid to turn the state’s largest and only blue district red in this year’s midterm elections.