Memphis-Shelby County Schools Superintendent Marie Feagins also addressed her recent proposal to have all overtime be approved by her or someone she designates, with no exceptions for emergencies.

Four affordable homes planned for a vacant lot in Orange Mound are part of the drive in the city’s competition between owned and rented single-family homes.

A Germantown-based real estate agent plans to seek the Board of Education seat Amy Eoff has held since her election in 2016.

The renovation of the Legacy Building and the adjacent Founders Park will provide an opportunity to tell the post-1968 story, according to the museum’s chief marketing and development officer. 

MSCS school cops walk out, Racquet Club redevelopment plan expands and contracts and new owners plan to save a Cooper-Young coffee institution.

Dr. Jon McCullers, who helped lead Memphis through the COVID-19 pandemic, is leaving for a new job in Houston. Here are his thoughts on how Memphis handled school closings, vaccinations, football games and Black Lives Matter protests.

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MSCS security resource officers walked out of an introductory meeting with the district’s new safety director Monday morning, according to two MSCS board members. Another walkout could come at the upcoming football jamboree games.

If approved by the commission in two more votes, the referendum would join five other ballots questions put on the same ballot for Memphis voters by the Memphis City Council.

An officer reported shots fired by several suspects in a white Ford sedan at an EZ Shop, 2380 Frayser Blvd., around 4:15 p.m.

MSCS board chair Althea Greene’s announcement of the coming vote on restoring $2.3 million in funding came as the Shelby County Commission weighed putting up the money Monday, Aug. 12. The commission delayed the vote to see if the school board follows through.

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“We ... didn’t want to see an outside developer come in, tear it down and just (build some) white brick condos,” one of the new owners said.

Frayser landfill expansion fight isn’t over, New Wing Order closes and we weigh the pros and cons of joining the Big 12 or ACC.

In a program announced Aug. 9, the Uptown community center will have offices for several county government services, including offices and meeting places.

There are 400 or so members of the Memphis Area Beekeepers Association who devote time to hundreds of thousands of honeybees that live across the city.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools began the 2024-25 year with 478 teacher vacancies, according to documents obtained by The Daily Memphian. 

Also happening this week: MATA hosts public meetings to reimagine transit, and xAI should be fully operational.

The proposed budget amendment comes less than two months after the start of the new county government fiscal year.

Rafiah Muhammad-McCormick hopes an expansion of the state’s Criminal Injuries Compensation Act will make the process easier for victims and their families. But she and other advocates are working to clear another hurdle: awareness.

Democrats have a goal of flipping seven to eight state House seats through the 2028 elections to bring Republicans down to just a simple majority there.

The meeting hosted by MLGW alongside Memphis City Council member Pearl Walker came after months of community worry about the project, which promises to add the electrical equivalent of several thousand homes to the utility’s distribution system. 

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Environmental activists have raised concerns about emissions from the site as well as impact on the region’s drinking water. 

The Land Use Control Board sided with a recommendation to reject the landfill’s expansion in Frayser, a relief for the advocates who opposed it. But the landfill’s owners will now seek approval from the City Council.

Tony Ludlow started a Marine Corps boot camp-themed workout class in 1999. The boot camp still meets today at Christ Church Memphis near Laurelwood. 

After more than 30 years with Memphis Police Department, a deputy chief is leaving to become top cop in a local suburb.

According to a preliminary report from the Tennessee Highway Patrol, no one involved in the crash was wearing a seat belt.