The Shelby County Commission has approved on third and final reading an ordinance to grow the Uptown TIF district to include more communities in North Memphis.

Shelby County Commission Chairman Mark Billingsley has asked the county attorney for an opinion on a plan for the county to get its "fair share" of the city's newly approved sales tax increase. Meanwhile, Commissioner Edmund Ford now has questions for Memphis city government.

Calling on Democrats to drop political attacks, Vice President Mike Pence pushed Monday for passage of the United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement at a Tyson Foods plant in Goodlettsville.

The Division of TennCare will hold a Medicaid block grant hearing Oct. 15 at the University of Memphis, adding the event to three already held across the state.

State Rep. John DeBerry took shots at teachers and their union – but said it’s also important to bring them into the fold – in an American Enterprise Institute event in Washington focusing on federal “education freedom scholarship” legislation.

Suffragettes, Larry Finch, the Memphis Underworld of a century ago, an Orange Mound teenager named Elton Hayes, Georgia Tann's child trafficking organization and Jimmy Lunceford's syncopation are featured in the second installment of the Memphis 200.

Members of eight faith groups in the Memphis area gathered at the Health Sciences Park Saturday morning and invited people to ask questions and have conversations.

ALCO Management Inc., Memphis-based provider of government-subsidized rental housing in nine states, is expanding and updating Downtown offices and preparing for the July 2020 retirement of founder Frank Jemison.

The slaying of his Bolton High School teaching colleague in 2006 spurred state Rep. Jim Coley to focus much of his legislative career on toughening laws for domestic violence and then human trafficking.

Shelby County Election Commissioner Bennie Smith says hand-marked paper ballots are a better alternative than the paper audit trail systems the commission explored a year ago. He also talked about low voter turnout on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast.

Incumbent City Councilman Berlin Boyd and Michalyn Easter-Thomas are preparing for a runoff to decide the city council's District 7 seat. 

Students from 21 Shelby County Schools visited 15 companies for National Manufacturing Day Friday as part of an annual program designed to show students opportunities in the local manufacturing industry.

Gov. Bill Lee says he will call the Capitol Commission together for discussion on the Nathan Bedford Forrest bust, a point of contention in the State Capitol.

Fire and police union leaders are preparing to meet to work out details of implementing the half-cent sales tax increase approved by voters Thursday to restore health and pension benefits. 

Republican Gov. Bill Lee again confirmed a Medicaid block grant hearing will be held in Memphis but said Thursday people raising opposition are "misinformed" or haven't taken the time to to "understand" the “hybrid” proposal.

Judge to consider unsealing records from closed-door session on Memphis police surveillance case. 

Red Roof Inn, a northeast Memphis motel closed as a public nuisance, will reopen after the owners agreed to hire security guards and install surveillance cameras. 

The public and police department employees are asked to submit comments to an accreditation group as the Memphis Police Department seeks re-accreditation. 

Breyer delivered the Constitution Day lecture at Rhodes College.

Memphis voters approved raising the sales tax rate to restore health care benefits and pensions for first responders. 

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland easily won re-election Thursday over former Mayor Willie Herenton, County Commissioner Tami Sawyer and six other challengers. 

Check here throughout the day to see how balloting is going around the city, and into the evening as ballot tabulation begins. 

Crosstown parents and students were told principal Alexis Gwin-Miller was no longer employed at the school. It’s not clear if Gwin-Miller resigned or was fired. 

As Memphis voters put to rest another season of campaigns for a place at City Hall, there are several last-minute dramas unfolding in a city where election night is the same night as Memphis Madness.

One of the National Science Foundation grants is designed to improve science, technology, engineering and math instruction in high-need public schools.