Allowing sports betting on Beale Street and better implementation of the state’s standardized TNReady test are two of the Shelby County Commission's latest requests to the Tennessee General Assembly.

Local organizations getting funds for technology enhancements, personnel training through Coummnuity Foundation grants.

Cedrick Gray will start his new role as director of education in January if the County Commission approves his appointment. 

Memphis City Council members have rejected gas, water and electric rate hikes proposed by Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division. On three separate 3-7 votes Tuesday, the council voted down the rate hikes to take effect in 2019 and again in 2021 across all three divisions of the publicly owned utility.

Memphis City Council members say there were some indications of discord before the rift over filling three vacant council seats. But when the rift settled in for the rest of the year it was a surprising turn.

A developer is looking to turn the former Sigma Alpha Epsilon house near the University of Memphis campus into a privately owned and operated dormitory.

The Tennessee Valley Authority has extended the deadline for Memphians to comment on the future of coal ash at the Allen Fossil Plant in southwest Memphis.

The Knowledge Quest students helping with the reimagining of the Memphis riverfront and Tom Lee Park spent this past summer engaged in a Stanford University-style design thinking lab.

Both sides in federal lawsuit over Memphis police surveillance request a year to work out differences outside of court ruling.

Memphis businessman Wei Chen was remembered Friday as an ardent booster of his adopted hometown, which was on full display in his 2011 flight around the world.

A twin-engine jet registered to company owned by a Memphis businessman crashed Thursday in Atlanta, killing all four aboard.

The Shelby County Commission voted to authorize a 30-year, $100 million tax increment financing district for phase I of the $950 million Union Row development Monday, despite a request from Mayor Lee Harris and two county commissioners to delay the vote. 

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland won’t officially announce his re-election bid until next month.

Memphis City Council members Patrice Robinson and Worth Morgan join us to talk about the council's three vacant seats. Plus: Union Row gets a thumbs-up from the County Commission and sports betting could be coming to Tennessee.

One year to the day that Confederate monuments were removed from two city parks, the anniversary revealed the controversy still has some unexpected life left in it among those pursuing the removal of the monuments by different methods.

Sara Kyle says constituents have been encouraging her to consider running even before U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander announced he would not seek re-election.

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris presses the case for funding of a new juvenile detention center ahead of a key County Commission vote next month.

A Tennessee Attorney General’s opinion saying sports betting could be legalized without amending the Constitution could make it easier for Sen. Brian Kelsey to pass legislation allowing gambling on athletic events.

Memphis City Council members put off filling three empty seats on the council Tuesday at their last meeting of the year.

For 10 days during the holiday season, prisoners in Shelby County jails will get free five-minute phone calls to family and friends.

In one of her final acts as Tennessee education commissioner, Candice McQueen has identified nearly 20 schools that could require the most drastic state interventions — including possibly state takeover in 2020 — if their test scores don’t increase dramatically, according to documents obtained by Chalkbeat.

There are plans to make two more Hallmark movies in Memphis next year, according to the managing partner of Graceland Holdings LLC.

Memphis legislators say a court ruling striking at the heart of the Affordable Care Act should spur the Legislature to protect health insurance coverage for Tennesseans.

The city’s long-range development plan for the next 20 years begins with what is already there, gauges the market and public sentiment and builds from there. A draft of the Memphis 3.0 plan debuted Wednesday on a city website, www.memphis3point0.com.

Four Shelby County Commissioners wrote a letter to Gov. Bill Haslam urging him to grant clemency for 30-year-old Cyntoia Brown, who is currently serving a 51-year prison sentence for killing a man when she was 16.