The nonbinding resolution approved at a tense and standing-room-only council session is similar to a resolution the council voted down in September 2025.

The Democratic contender for U.S. Senate in Mississippi spoke to supporters in Southaven, urging more regulation and transparency around data centers.

A Lakeland candidates forum turned into questions exclusively for incumbent mayor Josh Roman after his opponent chose not to attend.

“People power can win, even when City Hall has six attorneys ... trying to silence dissent against data centers and the billionaires who are popping them up all across our country,” State Rep. Justin J. Pearson said.

The museum’s free Trick or Vote event is designed for families to come trick-or-treat and leave with a voting plan. 

The Memphis City Council’s proposed data center regulations have sparked debate among Daily Memphian readers.

The data-center moratorium vote is back, and council member Yolanda Cooper-Sutton is suspended from some duties.

There are more than 6,500 ambulatory surgery centers operating in the United States.

Memphis City Council Chairwoman Jana Swearengen-Washington suspended Council member Yolanda Cooper-Sutton from her committee-leadership duties for 30 days after her conduct during an Oct. 6 council meeting.

Five ordinances and a resolution — all on data centers — top the Tuesday council agenda including a call for a moratorium on new data centers.

More than 550 arts funders from across the country are in Memphis this week for a national conference examining how investments into local artists and organizations can strengthen communities.

Hatley admonished the state’s ballooning budget and opposed deploying the Memphis Safe Task Force, saying the real issue plaguing Memphis was an underfunded police department.

Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch has cleared a Senatobia police officer of wrongdoing in a fatal June shooting of a 1-year-old. 

Tennessee’s takeover of Memphis-Shelby County Schools has been paused again.

The appointment appointed is the latest in a series of recent judicial shakeups.

This week sees the Memphis City Council return for two three-hour sessions on what a possible data center moratorium could look like. 

The Memphis Safe Task Force is a hot political topic, and we’ve got recs for ribs and fall coffees. 

Also in the roundup: Commissioner Rhonda O’Dell’s second letter about Edmund Ford Jr., “Souls to the Polls” rallies worked to boost the early vote turnout Saturday and Pearson and Molder make appeals beyond party lines. 

Memphis game designer Reuben Brunson debuts his second concept, a new, fast-paced card game called Litter Box, which he thinks may just be a big hit.

With early voting underway in Shelby County, federal officials touted the Memphis Safe Task Force while Democratic congressional nominees vowed to scrutinize the operation.

Also happening this week: The Memphis Tigers basketball team plays their first exhibition game.

“A public meeting belongs to the whole community. Being loud does not make you right, being angry does not make you righteous, and neither gives you the right to silence everyone else.”

The candidates for the three Bartlett alderman races on the November ballot, made their case for election during a forum Friday night.

Rene Lassauzet has been ALSAC’s senior vice president of brand creative for about a year-and-a-half. During that time, he’s immersed himself in the world of St. Jude, fulfilled his longtime dream of becoming an American citizen and settled into a community he has no plans to leave.

SpaceXAI continues to grow in Southaven as do its debts. Another lien has been filed against the AI giant.