Bellevue Tennis Center would also get renovation funds.

Can an African elephant make the correct call on a contest between Bearcats and Midshipmen?

Before the vote on Tuesday, multiple council members raised the city’s fiscal condition. 

The letter apologized for the contentious nature of the debate over a raise for firefighters, but also said the raise would not matter much. 

Crime keeps dropping. Police say major offenses fell again in November, reaching their lowest level in nearly three years.

The city needs sales-tax growth at Liberty Park to pay bonds at the Memphis Sports and Events Center. To generate that tax growth, it needs hotel and apartments to become something more than hypothetical. 

The owner of The Station, a proposed high-end liquor store in East Memphis, will appear before the city’s Alcohol Commission next week to ask for a permit.

Memphis’ historic cobblestone landing formally opened Friday after at least 19 years of bureaucracy, red tape and the rise and fall of the Mississippi River.

Housing and Urban Development grants could reach an estimated 100 to 120 senior citizen homeowners.

Also in this roundup, the first forum among contenders for Shelby County sheriff and the race to succeed Wanda Halbert is filling up.

The “debt cliff” refers to how much city bond payments are expected to decline in the future — essentially, the city’s annual payment on its never-ending mortgage.

The Memphis City Council addressed its YouTube stream not showing the entirety of the body’s Dec. 2 meeting where a council member compared a proposed firefighter pay raise to rape.

MATA’s trustee said rider numbers are up. In other action, council members took steps to stop dumping in the Wolf River Bottoms, but balked at some strong limits suggested for city contracts to manage city parks.

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The comments came as the City Council debated an additional 2% raise for the Memphis Fire Fighters Association.

The move from being appointed to becoming civil servants would change library employees’ status.

The council also gets an update on the Memphis Area Transit Authority’s three-month, no-fare experiment.

Sometimes a La Nina winter can produce a decent snow event, but Monday’s forecast calls for a mix of sleet and rain. 

The two sides have fought in court since early 2024.

“There’s so many people in this world who didn’t know we touched their lives because it didn’t happen to them,” Karolina Duda said of potential crime victims. The Daily Memphian rode along with Supervisory Deputy Duda to observe the on-the-ground work of the Memphis Safe Task Force.

The Tennessee House speaker, who attended U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s news conference Monday, Nov. 24, was asked what the state’s appetite was for funding a replacement to 201 Poplar. 

“The numbers tell the story themselves. They are undeniable,” said U.S. Attorney General Bondi, who traveled to Memphis on Monday, Nov. 24.

Memphis found a new deputy chief financial officer. Now, the city must find a new leader for its library division as Keenon McCloy retires after 18 years. 

The Memphis City Council voted to change the minimum salary for City of Memphis workers.

The Memphis City Council delayed voting on the 2% raise during an occasionally fractious committee hearing.

Memphis Police Chief C.J. Davis presented the latest crime numbers for the first full month of the Memphis Safe Task Force. She also talked about the MPD’s relationship with the task force including on immigration arrests.