The City Council could also Tuesday revisit its decision two weeks ago to reject a solid waste fee hike. Mayor Jim Strickland said no fee hike could lead to laying off sanitation workers and scaling back garbage pickups of curbside trash. The combination with the MLGW rate hike proposal could cause the council to do either/or but not both.
Department of Veterans Services Commissioner Courtney Rogers is considering “rare exceptions” for burying soldiers on weekends, a situation stemming from the state's refusal to hold services for Maj. Trevor Joseph of Collierville on a weekend when more family and friends could attend.
The proposal would raise teachers' starting salary to $45,000. Those with master’s degrees ultimately could make a salary as high as $74,000, and teachers with doctorates almost $84,000.
Horn Lake man identified through rape kits to six sexual assaults in Memphis over a seven year period.
Gov. Bill Lee and the Department of Environment and Conservation are lending the City of Memphis $48 million to improve its water system infrastructure.
Good morning; it’s Monday, Dec. 16. Today, a community program will graduate its first class of real estate developers, and the Grizz take on the Heat at the FedExForum.
Funding is in place for a short-term fix for Shelby County's records "catastrophe" and Register of Deeds Shelandra Ford has plans for a long-term solution.
Lawmakers will try to derail Gov. Bill Lee’s education savings account law in 2020 amid “suspicions” about whether some lawmakers were offered perks for supporting it.
The fourth part of our series marking the bicentennial of the city's founding takes us to some of the more complex chapters of Memphis history, a few sports legends, artists, corporate innovators and two years of profound change.
The Saturday gathering at the AFSCME union hall Downtown drew a group of 60 supporters. It follows a similar gathering Tuesday for those supporting rival Democratic contender and former Vice President Joe Biden.
There have been 15 child homicide victims this year in Memphis, an increase over the 13 children killed all of last year.
Toys for Tots and Alpha Phi Alphi Fraternity, Inc., staged two events for holiday giving that took place just blocks apart in Whitehaven.
Aspire Public Schools superintendent Nick Manning talked on The Daily Memphian Podcast about the move of the charter organization in Memphis for the last seven years to a local board in the new school year.
With questions surfacing about whether state Rep. David Byrd will run for re-election in 2020, state Rep. G.A. Hardaway is renewing his request for a House investigation into allegations of misconduct against the Waynesboro Republican as a high school girls basketball coach 30 years ago.
The Memphis Zoo's waddle of penguins grows with two new babies.
Lakeland commissioners Thursday night, Dec. 12, approved a contract with Allen & Hoshall to begin designing the Oliver Creek Sanitary Sewer Interceptor project, which city officials expect to be completed within five years.
Lakeland commissioners Thursday night, Dec. 12, approved on first reading a zoning ordinance change that would pave the way for Delta Blues Winery to sell hard cider.
Good morning, it’s Friday, Dec. 13, and today, Gov. Bill Lee will be in town to make an economic development announcement.
Three Memphis schools joined a list of buildings with water sources that contain unsafe lead levels. Many schools in the district have yet to be tested.
The tiny Deaderick family cemetery in Orange Mound was once much bigger. And this week, an archaeological effort by the city and several Orange Mound groups found evidence of more graves beyond the wrought iron fence of the cemetery along Park Avenue.
Shelby County Commission Chairman Mark Billingsley thinks the full commission will be able to vote on revised county residency rules for workers by late January.
A total of 16 contenders, 12 Democrats and 4 Republicans, filed by a Thursday, Dec. 12, noon deadline to run in the March 3 countywide primary for General Sessions Court Clerk.
Gov. Bill Lee is set to announce Friday, Dec. 13, that a new company is coming to Memphis and creating hundreds of jobs in Shelby County.
Corey Johnson was placed on suspension with pay last month and fired on Dec. 3, according to Ricky Wilkins, the charter school network’s lawyer.