The $10 million sought over several years by Epicenter didn't have enough support on the city council despite a guaranteed return. The pitch is part of a "movement" to encourage more sources of local capital for made-in-Memphis ventures. But the use of pension money hit a barrier with many on the council.
Dr. Lou Magnotti sees patients in the busy, often unpredictable Elvis Presley Trauma Center at Regional One Health with his “collection.”
With more than 40 years in the homebuilding industry, Magnolia Homes is celebrating 15 years of its Showcase of Homes event, held the weekends of Sept. 19-21 and Sept. 26-28 in four of its communities.
A proposed $20 wheel tax increase for MATA funding wasn't voted on Monday by the Shelby County Commission, which will revisit the resolution next week in committee.
The Tennessee Department of Correction received a four-year extension Monday despite accusations of corruption and a harsh audit showing it misclassified homicides.
Three-day competition will give participants a look inside the design industry while learning about teamwork and giving to charitable causes.
The utility expected all power to be restored to customers by midnight Monday. Presidents Island had the most sustained damage, with numerous power poles broken or uprooted by straight-line winds.
Likely to lead the 2020 agenda will be proposals to improve students’ reading skills and increase teacher compensation, two needs that most every lawmaker can agree on.
Commissioner Willie Brooks, a sponsor of the wheel-tax resolution, said he's willing to find other ways to fund MATA.
Financial Federal Bank has joined a lender network to help expand the Memphis-based bank’s presence nationwide.
Tests are for students who miss blood-testing in their schools.
The lowest-paid workers at the University of Memphis are to get two raises this year, bringing them to $13 an hour.
Welcome to the week! Today is Monday, Jan. 13, and the wheel tax, a land swap and a ban on stand-alone apartment buildings are all up for discussion.
The Daily Memphian City Council Scorecard is updated to include Tuesday, Jan. 21, votes on the MLGW rate hike and a vote on approving Mayor Jim Strickland’s slate of second-term directors.
Children transferred from juvenile court to adult court is on the rise. Last year, 90 children were charged as adults and almost all are African American.
Germantown aldermen will revisit the city's ban on standalone, single-use apartments, and also look at potential land swap to acquire property for a water tower.
Republican Charlotte Bergmann, who is seeking to once again challenge Democratic Cong. Steven Cohen this election year, kicked off her campaign this weekend at a gun-shooting range. Other contenders in other primary races on the August 6 ballot are making their moves as well.
House Minority Leader Karen Camper is seeking a different outcome on Medicaid expansion and the Education Savings Account program as the 111th General Assembly reconvenes this week.
Chauncy Black, a Memphis teen for whom a viral fundraiser brought in nearly $350,000 to help Black's struggling family in 2016, has been charged with murder four years later.
Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division representatives say they hope to have all power restored by the end of Monday after storms Saturday knocked out power for many across the city and county.
Chase Carlisle, one of six new City Council members, talked on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast about the differences of opinion at the first council session of the new term.
House Minority Leader Karen Camper believes a legislative oversight committee needs to be renewed amid another poor audit for Tennessee's prisons.
City council member Chase Carlisle talks about the start of the new council’s four-year term of office and the Downtown-Midtown development boom and what that could mean for areas of disinvestment.
Meteorologists have issued a wind advisory and flash flood watch for the Memphis Metro Area.
State Rep. Mark White says charter schools in the Achievement School District should be under the charter commission, but state Rep. Antonio Parkinson says all 30 schools should return to local districts in Memphis and Nashville.