The plan goes to a tough audience of City Council members Tuesday for a first look. The council has twice in the past two years rejected such rate hike requests from MLGW after debating the right balance between rate hikes in a poor city and the need to update the utility's infrastructure for one of the city's most basic services.

On "Behind The Headlines," Jim Strickland says the city should be able to fund the restoration of benefits with the recently approved half cent sales tax hike for several years. Beyond that, expenses will probably exceed revenues, which is something he and the city council will discuss Tuesday. 

Residents of the Cottonwood Apartments were hit hard by the Oct. 21 tornado. Many of the apartments are uninhabitable and residents were told they had to leave by Friday because of the damage, including mold in some units. 

The embargo limits Memphis Public Libraries to buying only one copy of a new Macmillan title for the first eight weeks the book is out. MPL director Keenon McCloy says the policy by one of the nation's big five publishers limits access and in turn the reach of such books.

Two Memphis city council members say they have doubts about restoring city pension and health benefits to police officers and firefighters with a half-cent sales tax hike approved by city voters earlier this month.

Ibram X. Kendi, the author of "How to be an Antiracist," says it's harder to prove intent and consciousness in racism and that's why politicians have defined racism that way for generations. The concept came into play in the recent race for Memphis mayor. Kendi didn't comment on that controversy but says the idea has become part of the nation's political discourse.

Power restoration and other cleanup and repair efforts continued Wednesday, two days after an EF-1 tornado touched down in Southeast Memphis as part of a Monday morning storm system.

The new scooters that debuted Wednesday in Crosstown with seats and bigger tires use a network of Bike Share stations around the city and are part of the move to keep more scooters in bike lanes and off sidewalks.

Former Congressman Harold Ford Jr. returned to his hometown and the city he represented for a decade in Washington to talk about national politics, President Trump  and the city’s edge.

None of the new vote totals in the certified and audited count changed the outcome of any races for 18 offices and a sales tax hike referendum. Most of the additional votes appeared to be the result of provisional ballots counted after the Oct. 3 election night.

Hundreds of homeless Memphians attended Project Homeless Connect 2019 Thursday at the Fairgrounds' Pipkin Building, seeking assistance from 40 city agencies, community partners and service providers.

Memphis City Council chairman Kemp Conrad says the Memphis in May International Festival should focus on honoring a rotating set of countries instead of the broad range of countries the festival has honored over more than 40 years.

Trump supporters who oppose the House impeachment inquiry gathered in the Civic Center Plaza Thursday in what organizer Charlotte Bergmann said is the first of several rallies attempting to change the county’s identity as a Democratic stronghold.

There is no dispute about the results of who won and who lost in the Oct. 3 city elections. The direction the city takes from the election and what voters were saying about stark differences on issues between some of the contenders are still being sorted out. Meanwhile, four new council members are getting their first up-close look at how City Hall does business.

Memphis City Council members appear divided on the idea of hiring police officers and firefighters from outside Shelby County.

At their first session since the Oct. 3 city election day, city council members take up a familiar issue -- residency requirements. A new proposal would allow police and fire brass to hire outside Shelby County if voters approve it in a November 2020 referendum. It would be the third residency referendum in 16 years.

Council members discuss the "two-hour drive" proposal during Tuesday committee sessions. Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland says he backs the measure.

Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. says, according to one legal opinion, a referendum for county government to claim half the city revenue from the half-cent sales tax increase would be a vote among citizens in unincorporated Shelby County. 

The Memphis Area Association of Realtors Commercial Council on Tuesday presented a discussion of the investor potential of Opportunity Zones and how federal tax law might benefit distressed neighborhoods.

The 60-year-old Allen Fossil plant is scheduled for demolition  in 2022, Tennessee Valley Authority President and CEO Jeff Lyash said Tuesday as leaders got a look at possible future uses for the 500-acre site.

Patricia Ange is seeking $350,000 in damages against Memphis Academy of Health Sciences High School, which enrolled about 400 students last year.

Bigger crowds on Mud Island's south end during a hot summer made keeping people out of the Gulf of Mexico replica hard work. The Memphis River Parks Partnership will use the fall and winter to rethink how the Gulf should be used.

The Memphis schools have shown enough improvement to be eligible to leave the Tennessee Achievement School district next school year. Since that's never happened before, no one knows how that should work.

Incumbent Sherman Greer and contender Rhonda Logan will face off in the District 1 runoff election scheduled for Nov. 14. 

The Division of TennCare will hold a Medicaid block grant hearing Oct. 15 at the University of Memphis, adding the event to three already held across the state.