The new initiative is a strategic plan to increase student enrollment.

Rev. Ayanna Watkins, executive director and lead organizer of MICAH (Memphis Interfaith Coalition for Action and Hope) talks about the organization's work on equity in a city election year.

Germantown residents who experienced flood damage due to heavy rain overnight are asked to call (901) 757-7200.

The “Wear Orange” anti-gun violence rally will be held at Orange Mound Community Center because of rainy weather.

The world’s largest and oldest testing company, Pearson will become the third vendor in five years to administer TNReady in the state’s messy transition to computer-based testing.

A $4.5 million building permit application was filed for one of Southwest Tennessee Community College’s main campuses.

Memphis-based Fogelman Properties, one of the nation’s largest privately owned multifamily investment and property management companies, has made its third acquisition of 2019.

With six weeks left to file qualifying petitions, the number of likely candidates in Memphis elections is on par with four years ago, with a dozen contenders having pulled petitions for the city mayor's race so far.

Dr. Michael Steuer, president and medical director at MidSouth Pain Center, has opened a clinic in Beverly Hills that uses ketamine, traditionally used for anesthesia, to treat depression, PTSD and other psychiatric disorders. 

Both local Saint Francis Healthcare hospitals are leading a community effort to provide area children and adults struggling with hunger with a healthy breakfast during the summer.

In an effort to increase the hourly wage for its lowest-paid employees, the University of Memphis board of trustees has approved an across-the-board pay raise for all faculty and staff. 

Yolanda Dandridge is leaving for charter operator Memphis Scholars. She will take charge of the Memphis-based charter organization’s Caldwell Guthrie Elementary School. She’s been at Georgian Hills as a teacher, assistant principal and principal since 2013. 

Shelby County Schools Superintendent Joris Ray says the district needs to listen more before deciding whether to implement his predecessor's plan to consolidate 28 schools into 10 new ones.

There is no immediate move to sell Confederate monuments removed from two Memphis parks until all appeals by Sons of Confederate Veterans, which is contesting the sale of the parks and the statues' removal, are exhausted. 

Shelby County House Republicans say Speaker Glen Casada is wearing out his welcome with an Aug. 2 resignation date, with two contending he should step down immediately as caucus leaders push for an earlier time frame for a special session to replace him.

Vatterott Career College’s shuttered culinary school in Cordova will reopen this summer as an extension of the University of Memphis Kemmons Wilson School of Hospitality & Resort Management.

Saint Francis Healthcare announced Wednesday it recently earned the Advanced Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center certification from The Joint Commission.

The legal challenge to the Memphis 3.0 plan has been dismissed in Memphis Federal Court.

The City Council stuck with a compromise 4% pay raise for police and firefighters and kept the city property tax rate at $3.19, but also extended a controversial cover charge for Beale Street on summer weekends. 

Tennessee Shakespeare Company has been awarded two grants through the National Endowment for the Arts’ Shakespeare in American Communities program, including one to spread the initiative to the juvenile justice system.

The Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled the Sons of Confederate Veterans organization has no case to preserve two Memphis parks and the Confederate monuments removed from them in 2017.

Two mayoral contenders are among those confirmed for the South Memphis gathering built around a platform and endorsements in some, if not all, of the races on the Oct. 3 Memphis ballot.

House Speaker Glen Casada released a letter saying he will step down on Aug. 2 and asked the governor to call a special session, as Democrats and some Republicans urged him to resign immediately on Tuesday.

Supporters of legalizing medical cannabis in Tennessee believe the legislation stalled in the General Assembly this year mainly because of Speaker Glen Casada’s decision to appoint an opponent of the measure as chairman of a Health subcommittee.

ASD chief Sharon Griffin wants to play a bigger role in the day-to-day operations of charter schools than past leaders have. She wants charter and school leaders to improve test scores, to bolster teacher recruitment and training. But school leaders say they were promised autonomy to run their charter schools as they see fit.