Leadership change comes as the Federal Highway Administration releases its assessment of Arkansas’ bridge inspection program, providing a list of 18 recommendations that hint at a variety of shortcomings.

With a respectful, patriotic nod, local Veterans Day events recognized the commitment of those who served in the military.

Last week, the area hit a milestone of more than one million COVID-19 vaccines administered. 

The hotel at Elvis Presley Boulevard would be One Stop Housing’s third property in Memphis. 

As a TennCare audit raises questions and the county commission considers raises, we’re following the money. 

TennCare could owe the federal government hundreds of millions of dollars, according to an audit. But at a budget hearing last week, neither Gov. Bill Lee nor any members of his panel asked about it.

Memphis criminal justice leaders discuss violent crime at crime forum. 

If approved on three votes, the raises would apply to the next term of office that begins Sept. 1, 2022, after next year’s county primaries and general elections. Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris says he doesn’t support it.

People can either have walk-in tests or make appointments in advance.

The Peabody prepares for its next 30 years Downtown, a longtime family business is sold, “Lil Buck” and other Memphis dancers are going on a nationwide tour and the Tigers are absolutely thrilling. 

The City of Memphis is using $1 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding over the next three years to increase the incentives for employers hiring those coming out of prison.

Tennessee stands to get billions of dollars to repair roads and bridges, build public transit and broadband and provide clean water after the U.S. House passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill Nov. 5.

The parking garage for St. Jude and ALSAC employees would be built on a 3.25-acre plot of land consisting of seven vacant parcels on A.W. Willis between North 3rd and North 4th streets. 

The last 330 miles of the gas line was beneath North McLean Boulevard in front of Compass Community Schools’ Midtown campus.

The newly elected president is a first-generation high school graduate from rural Arkansas. His unconventional path is one that many of the board members admired in their remarks last week. 

Two pop-up events this weekend will offer parents a chance to have their children ages 5 to 11 vaccinated against COVID-19.

A pitch for new fields includes Germantown’s horse show, Grizzlies game goes into overtime by a long shot and Bartlett could get into a TIF. 

The redistricting map approved Monday keeps a new Cordova-based district, restores the Collierville 7 precinct to District 2 and Germantown 4 to District 4. It also separates two incumbents expected to run again.

Earlier this year, the organization received a $300,000 donation from the creators of Pokemon Go. It was the largest donation in the nonprofit’s history. 

Tigers football and soccer get big wins over the weekend, people come out for the Greensward and Kellogg’s workers and the highway patrol looks at putting more troopers in Memphis.

Rev. Kathryn Kimmel will lead the Midtown Memphis congregation, which first met in 1839 in a log cabin near the Mississippi River.

The Monday, Nov. 8, special meeting of the Shelby County Commission comes after a party-line 8-5 vote a week ago to approve a plan that creates a Cordova district.

ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection system, has been in Memphis for eight months and has alerted police to 2,093 instances of gunfire. Is the system deterring gun crime? It’s too early to tell, police say. 

At a week of budget hearings, Gov. Bill Lee’s cabinet officials said they can’t compete in the labor market.

More Tennessee Highway Patrol officers are on the way to Shelby County as Memphis seeks to turn over patrols of the city’s interstate system to the state, including combatting gun violence.