Memphis Area Transit Authority will receive a $12 million federal grant for a rapid transit line from Downtown Memphis to the University of Memphis.

The University of Memphis is hosting a lecture by writer and illustrator Brian Selznick and world-renowned Walt Whitman scholar, Karen Karbiener.

A new interactive city website offers a deeper dive into city government data.

The retention policy takes effect during the 2021-22 school year. This year’s kindergarten students will be the first class of second graders impacted by the new policy, which could hold back students with lagging literacy skills.

City council members got their first look at not only the MLGW budget that includes rate hikes but the efficiency study that is being used to leaven the impact of the rate hikes. The council reviews all of it again in two weeks and could also vote at the Nov. 19 council session.

Tennessee's former lieutenant governor, Ron Ramsey, said Tuesday he was interviewed by an FBI agent in a short phone call this year about state Sen. Brian's Kelsey's finances.

Germantown Municipal School District students got the day off Tuesday while their teachers participated in training designed to prevent bullying. 

With three meetings left in the four-year term of office of city council members, and at least four new council members coming January, the council is lining up several items for action by the end of 2019. 

Collierville Public Services crews are narrowing access to Frank Road Tuesday to repair a broken waterline.

Tennessee’s Economic and Community Development commissioner is not requesting funds in fiscal 2020-21 for the Memphis Regional Megasite, saying the state is awaiting court action on wastewater lines easements before it will embark on the rest of the project.

The City Council gets its first detailed look Tuesday at a Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division rate hike proposal and talks with Mayor Jim Strickland about next steps in restoring benefits to police and firefighters. 

The Shelby County Commission passed a no-confidence vote Monday against Anthony Alexander, the corrections division director who is accused of living outside Shelby County.

The University of Memphis will receive $1 million from Shelby County government under a resolution approved by the County Commission Monday that does not include any mandates for when it will pay all university employees $15 an hour.

The only countywide elected office on the ballot in 2020 will be a race without an incumbent if Shelby County General Sessions Court Clerk Ed Stanton does not seek re-election.

Republican Gov. Bill Lee says he nixed spending from a $4 million rural grant fund because he said legislators didn’t understand how the money was to be used.

The officer-involved shooting death of 40-year-old Jason Matthew Hill has been ruled justified by the Shelby County Dist. Atty. Amy Weirich. No charges will be filed against the deputies, who have not been identified. 

Construction on the third phase of Foote Park at South City on the west side of Danny Thomas Boulevard is to be completed by June 2021. 

Leon Blackmon, a former analyst with Housing and Community Development, allegedly steered $1.6 million in contracts to mow vacant lots to family and friends over a seven-year period. Half of the lots were being mowed by the city or next-door neighbors.

Public school students finished with an overall average of 20 on a scale of 36, down from 20.2 last year and mirroring a national slump on ACT results.

The state's first rainbow crosswalk has been unveiled in Cooper-Young.

The race for mayor in particular highlighted different kinds of change at work in the city's politics, from cutting edge to much more gradual changes begun 12 years ago. With the winners and losers decided, the different kinds of change remain in play.

The Howl at the Moon fundraiser hopes to top last year's $160,000 total at the annual event on Nov. 9. 

State Rep. Mark White and other leaders urged Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn to slow-walk revisions in accountability measures it took lawmakers years to win, but Gov. Bill Lee backs her efforts to change the status quo.

The plan goes to a tough audience of City Council members Tuesday for a first look. The council has twice in the past two years rejected such rate hike requests from MLGW after debating the right balance between rate hikes in a poor city and the need to update the utility's infrastructure for one of the city's most basic services.

Shelby County Commissioner Mick Wright had hopes of unifying the county through a redesigned flag, but that won't happen right away.