State Rep. G.A. Hardaway says he will ask the Comptroller's Office to review the Education Department budget amid questions about a transfer of Career Ladder funds to hire a Florida contractor to run the new Education Savings Account program.
The city's response to a backlog in picking up leaves reveals just how politically volatile the city's most basic service can be -- and has been -- for decades.
As the Iowa presidential caucuses get underway Monday, it also marks the last day to register to vote in the March 3 Tennessee presidential primaries and the first day for candidates in the August state and federal primaries to pull and file their paperwork to get on the ballot.
Junior Achievement of Memphis is asking groups to knock down pins at two local alleys and raise funds for the organization's programming.
Germantown Education Foundation named a former Germantown Municipal School District teacher who also taught in legacy Shelby County Schools as its next executive director.
The recent formal opening of the local U.S. Census office came as new immigration restrictions are finding a place in presidential campaign rhetoric.
A Lausanne Collegiate School eighth grader will represent Shelby County at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in May.
The Shelby County commissioners chairing the ad hoc committee sorting out county funding for city buses talked on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast about eliminating some of the bells and whistles that have emerged to get to the funding.
Republican lawmakers are pushing legislation to take away the governor’s authority to keep Tennessee in the federal refugee resettlement program by claiming he is illegally "obligating" state funds.
NAACP Memphis Branch board president Van Turner and concerned citizens call for an end to violence, financial support to bury three children killed this month in drive-by shootings.
Happy Friday! Today we know which way Sen. Lamar Alexander will vote in the president's impeachment trial, AutoZone is committed to Downtown and two of our Memphis Grizz are out for the night.
The Shelby County sheriff is suggesting a more specific residency requirement, with limits, than the one that failed on first reading Monday before the Shelby County Commission.
U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee revealed his decision Thursday night on calling witnesses as part of the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
"I first met him in the interrogation room when I was arrested for accessory after the fact – first-degree murder,’’ Bridgett Stafford told investigators.
Opponents of Gov. Bill Lee’s federal block grant request for Medicaid funds say the proposal will be "dead on arrival" in Washington, but the governor's administration says it is "encouraged" by a Thursday policy announcement by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Plastic container manufacturer Ring Container Technologies has joined How2Recycle.
Rhodes has 110 fountains on campus; all were tested.
It's Thursday, Jan. 30, and we're staring down history with a Grizz win, a flu outbreak and vintage rock 'n' roll memorabilia for the opening of a Coliseum archive.
A team from the Memphis Public Libraries has digitized some of the trove of files they found last year in the mothballed Mid-South Coliseum.
Carnival Memphis this year will honor four titans of Memphis commercial real estate as well as eight development companies that have made a lasting mark in the industry and community.
One Memphis lawmaker contends Tennessee is setting up public education to fail by underfunding it then turning it over to charter operators and private schools.
"Operation Safe Travel 2" MPD's latest initiative to handle interstate shootings, kicked off Tuesday.
This will be Shelby County radiologist George Flinn's sixth campaign for Congress in the past decade.
The decision by the Shelby County School board means about 2,800 students will not have to find another school to attend in the fall.
The group is regional authority for accrediting colleges, universities in the South.