A Thursday "job fair on steroids" at the Fairgrounds includes 71 employers and a dozen training programs as well as such basics as a business headshot and resume advice.

The Memphis City Council, among other items, will discuss Tuesday spending $15,000 to hire a consultant to review the financial impact of the Memphis 3.0 land use and development study.

Mayoral contender Tami Sawyer and incumbent Mayor Jim Strickland differ greatly on how they believe the Memphis Police Department should be set up to fight the city's violent crime issues. 

The historic Woodruff-Fontaine House in Victorian Village opened a new exhibit Thursday to a group of children from Whitehaven, Hickory Hill and Frayser. The group that operates the home for the city is seeking to broaden the reach of the mansion to a broader history of Memphis in the Victorian era.

Some contenders with qualifying petitions out are deciding whether they should run. Still others are deciding what they should run for. The deadline for filing to get on the Oct. 3 ballot is in a week.

Former Memphis mayor Willie Herenton has a campaign war chest of $62,037 as of July, according to his campaign finance report filed Wednesday.

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland talks about his re-election bid, the sales tax referendum and crime as we review early campaign finance reports.

The ruling for advocates of instant-runoff voting comes as part of a third review of IRV's use in Memphis elections by the state election coordinator. It also probably comes too late to have an impact on the Oct. 3 Memphis elections.

Memphis mayoral contender and Shelby County Commissioner Tami Sawyer is calling for a neighborhood council to brings concerns of communities to City Hall as well as an immigrant support services office for city government and an action plan to combat infant mortality.

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland’s campaign war chest stands at more than $1 million in a second-quarter campaign finance report to be filed with the Shelby County Election Commission by Wednesday.

Mud Island's Gulf of Mexico replica is drawing waders looking for relief, as well as a few swimmers, even though the large body of water hasn't been a pool for several decades. Meanwhile, the island's south end is pulling in bigger crowds than last summer with plans for more activities and a crop of sunflowers.

Before rejecting plans this week to reconfigure the Waste Connections facility in Whitehaven, several Memphis City Council members said the decision is probably not the best outcome for area homeowners.

The owner of 115 Union and The Pocket bar will develop city land south of Clayborn Temple. Elmington Capital of Nashville will develop the Tillman Cove apartment complex land in Binghampton.

Three of the 13 council members are term-limited. The other 10 each face potential challengers in the summer campaigns on their way to the Oct. 3 election day.

The debut of instant-runoff or ranked-choice voting in Memphis probably won’t happen with the 2019 Memphis elections.

The provisions put to rest nearly five months of changing terms, distrust and behind the scenes bargaining around an $80 million expansion of Graceland.

The first Memphis City Council meeting of the new fiscal year Tuesday will feature some high dollar amounts and a couple of nonfiscal items lingering from the old fiscal year.

The environmental group among those urging Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division to look at possible changes to the utility’s relationship with the Tennessee Valley Authority is pushing a $250 million, five-year weatherization program for Memphis. Friends of the Earth launched the “Memphis Save Energy, Save Dollars” program with a rally Saturday.

Robert “Prince Mongo” Hodges is back as a candidate for mayor of Memphis. The candidate, who claims to be from the planet Zambodia, has been running for office since the late 1970s. He joins a field of 15 potential contenders.

Although they are running for different council seats on the October Memphis ballot, Sherman Greer and Craig Littles represent a new push by candidates for city office to move city priorities more toward youth programs. Greer and Littles are basing their push on their experiences as children in similar programs.

Downtown Memphis has more than adequate parking, but access to the lots, signage and condition of facilities are often so unsavory, many users believe parking in the city core is frustrating at best, dangerous at worst.

Video shows a Jeep motoring through the new Highland Strip crosswalk, and striking and hurling a schoolteacher through the air. Police did not charge the driver, raising questions about how serious the city takes pedestrian safety. 

The founder of Operation HOPE was in Memphis Thursday to keynote the closing day of city government's symposium on minority business. Bryant also outlined his goals for sustaining the nonprofit that works with financial institutions and some of the world's biggest corporate names.

The South's first black millionaire was remembered Tuesday, on what would have been his 180th birthday, with a Beale Street parade where the heart of his business empire once stood.

Mayor Jim Strickland talks about improving MATA as former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young discusses how a mass transit system was built there beginning in the 1970's.