City Council Budget Committee chairman Martavius Jones discusses the mayor’s Memphis 3.0 executive order, finding $6 million more for pay raises, and the city budget process.

The $11 million renovation of a Frayser apartment complex owned by The Works, a South Memphis community development corporation, is an indication that the coordinated fight against blight in the city has moved beyond one single-family home at a time.

Representatives from cities ranging from Pittsburgh to Little Rock are in Memphis this week to learn how local stakeholders came together to equip code enforcement with the power of the law to take down blighted properties. 

Jeff Lyash spoke Thursday at the second meeting of an advisory group to Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division on the question of ending or changing the utility's 80-year relationship with the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Memphis River Parks Partnership plans to begin making changes to Tom Lee Park in the fall. The fall construction appears to steer clear of most, if not all, of the park used by the Memphis In May International Festival.

Mayor Jim Strickland signed an executive order implementing the Memphis 3.0 plan Tuesday at a South Memphis CDC, a week before the Memphis City Council takes the first of three votes on the plan.

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland plans to sign an executive order Tuesday that will put into effect the Memphis 3.0 land use and development guidelines currently pending before the Memphis City Council.

Memphis Botanic Garden hosted mothers and families for a picnic in the park on Mother's Day. The event changed its brunch-style event for the first time in more than 20 years.

The Cooper-Young Garden Club hosts the Cooper-Young Garden Walk 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 18-19.

Here is a look at how the 18 races on the Oct. 3 Memphis ballot shape up a week before candidates are able to pull qualifying petitions signalling their official entry into a race.

On "Behind The Headlines," Mayor Jim Strickland said North Memphis critics of the Memphis 3.0 proposed land use and development plan want the city to turn over the former Firestone plant site to them for uses other than manufacturing.

The mansion that Berry Brooks built atop a hill in Raleigh is coming down along with the hill for a new subdivision of affordable houses.

Eight Memphis-area college students will complete a 10-month fellowship program with the Apex Institute to create solutions to a chronic problem of civic injustice in the community.

The Memphis City Council Tuesday delayed a vote on the Memphis 3.0 plan after a vocal critic filed a lawsuit against the council in federal court. The council also delayed for fourth time a vote on a Graceland expansion agreement.

A city council decision to return to a Beale Street cover charge for the remainder of May reignited a long-running debate. It follows two crowd "surges" and a shooting after two sold-out nights at the nearby Beale Street Music Festival last weekend.

A fire damaged the Gibson Guitar factory Downtown Tuesday afternoon. Authorities said one construction worker was taken to the hospital with smoke inhalation. 

Look for the river at Memphis to go just above flood stage of 34 feet this weekend.

Memphis City Council members begin scrutinizing the budget proposal for the coming fiscal year. 

The Memphis City Council returns to action Tuesday with Memphis 3.0, a Graceland expansion and $150 million in bonds for Memphis International Airport on the agenda, among other items.

Steve Montgomery helped create a better community and stronger church, other faith leaders say of the retiring pastor of Idlewild Presbyterian Church.

Memphis Friendship Foundation honors actor and author Daryl Davis as first Friendship Award winner.

U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen of Memphis reacted to Attorney General William Barr's no-show before the House Judiciary Committee Thursday by bringing a ceramic chicken and a bucket of KFC. The reaction of the city's Republican representatives in Washington has been decidedly different.

The nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Thursday called for a disciplinary review of a Memphis judge under fire for controversial social media postings.

The president and CEO of MLGW outlines the Integrated Resources Plan that will play a large part in any recommendation from MLGW and what would happen if TVA tried to make a deal with the utility.

Two contenders for Memphis mayor called for change in the city's leadership during a lunch hour rally outside City Hall that featured competition from a rain storm and an active shooter scare.