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  • Downtown

    Riverside Drive will remain closed for a few months

    A stretch of Riverside Drive will be closed to allow for the construction of what it is calling a road-diet conversion.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff May 22, 2025
  • Real Estate

    EDGE allocates $200K for South Memphis

    The Memphis and Shelby County Economic Development Growth Engine committed the money to build an economic development plan for South Memphis neighborhoods. 

    By Dima Amro May 21, 2025
  • City of Memphis

    Clayborn Temple fire was arson, MFD says

    The fire that destroyed the Clayborn Temple last month was set intentionally, the Memphis Fire Department said in an X post Wednesday afternoon.

    By Aarron Fleming May 21, 2025
  • Public Safety

    DOJ dropping MPD investigation ‘does not change anything,’ mayor says

    The U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday, May 21, that it was dropping the civil rights investigation into the Memphis Police Department and retracting its previous findings into MPD. 

    By Samuel Hardiman May 22, 2025
  • City of Memphis

    City Council clears agenda for budget season

    The council also decided Tuesday, May 20, an appeal of a two-lot subdivision planned by one of its members in East Memphis and rejected a truck lot at Shelby Drive and Tchulahoma Road.

    By Bill Dries May 20, 2025
  • City of Memphis

    Memphis employees could see raises, but city needs to find $39M

    In a surprise move, the Memphis City Council suspended its rules and voted on raises for solid waste employees, machinists and police officers. But the mayor has warned it could mean cutting 550 positions. 

    By Samuel Hardiman May 21, 2025
  • City of Memphis

    City Council pushes to install public toilets Downtown

    The Memphis City Council expressed frustration about the state of Downtown, also pushing to move 201 Poplar and change the state of Beale Street.

    By Samuel Hardiman May 20, 2025
  • City of Memphis

    What Elon Musk said about xAI’s second Memphis data center

    Elon Musk confirmed in an X post how much electricity xAI’s second Memphis data center, Colossus 2, could use. 

    By Samuel Hardiman May 20, 2025
  • City of Memphis

    City Council takes final vote on blight fee, first votes on new city division

    The Tuesday council day at City Hall also features a full briefing on a 120-year old brick culvert beneath the fire department’s maintenance shop that is at risk of “catastrophic failure.”

    By Bill Dries May 19, 2025
  • City of Memphis

    Paul Chandler named Memphis River Parks Partnership CEO

    Chandler announced last week that he was leaving his position as executive director of the Germantown Performing Arts Center.

    By Bill Dries May 19, 2025
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    Here’s how much water xAI is using to cool its supercomputer

    Progress on xAI’s water-recycling facility has slowed to a bureaucratic trickle, but construction could come like a flood in a matter of weeks. 

    By Samuel Hardiman May 19, 2025
  • City of Memphis

    This Week in Memphis: School’s out for summer; Bartlett talks Union Depot

    Also happening this week: The city’s new arts office wants to hear from local artists about how it can help them thrive.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff May 19, 2025
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    Hill: Nike EYBL shows what Memphis Sports and Events Center can do

    Nike’s Elite Youth Basketball League session is expected to bring more than 400 basketball coaches and scouts to the Memphis area and fill more than 8,000 hotel rooms across the city.

    By Drew Hill May 18, 2025
  • City of Memphis

    Both barbecue festivals are back on

    With sunny skies and temperatures in the 80s, both the Memphis in May and SmokeSlam barbecue festivals are back to their regular schedules Saturday, officials said.

    By Jody Callahan May 17, 2025
  • South Memphis

    Southwest Twin Drive-In redevelopment breaks ground

    The old drive-in movie site in Southwest Memphis will have a police precinct and a public library with plans for private development modeled on the 5-year-old Raleigh Springs Town Centre.

    By Bill Dries May 16, 2025
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    XAI partnership looking at Southaven natural gas plant

    Earlier this month, MLGW said xAI could need more power than the Tennessee Valley Authority, the region’s energy provider, can supply. 

    By Samuel Hardiman May 16, 2025
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    Appeals court sides with city in suit brought by Cleotha Abston victim

    The state appeals court affirmed that the city is protected from suit over claims that Memphis police allegedly failed to properly investigate when Cleotha Abston raped a woman in 2021.

    By Aarron Fleming May 15, 2025
  • City of Memphis

    National Response Team investigating Clayborn fire

    The Memphis Fire Department said it and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have been conducting “extensive off-site work, including detailed witness interviews and thorough video analysis.”

    By Bill Dries May 15, 2025
  • Public Safety

    DA’s office, MPD shut down site of year’s first homicide

    The Shelby County District Attorney’s Office and the Memphis Police Department temporarily shut down a business that has been the site of multiple homicides this year.

    By Aarron Fleming May 14, 2025
  • City of Memphis

    City wants court to sanction Tyre Nichols family’s attorneys

    The City of Memphis moved for sanctions Tuesday, May 13, in response to a Monday statement from RowVaughn Wells’ legal team that said any discussion of the civil case bankrupting the city is fearmongering.

    By Samuel Hardiman May 14, 2025
  • Public Safety

    ‘Let’s get this case moving:’ Judge pushes for Edmund Ford Jr. trial date

    A trial date is forthcoming in the federal criminal case against Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. 

    By Aarron Fleming May 13, 2025
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    Architect tapped for $550 million FedExForum renovations

    The firm has done work on stadium renovations around the country, including the Gainbridge Fieldhouse, home of the Indianapolis Pacers.

    By Samuel Hardiman May 12, 2025
  • City of Memphis

    This Week in Memphis: BBQ fest wars are back and MSCS graduations begin

    Also happening this week: Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris brings his budget to County Commission, and a new Pilates studio opens.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff May 11, 2025
  • City of Memphis

    Chamber: xAI does not plan to use turbines at Whitehaven site

    Documents show artificial intelligence company xAI considered using dozens of natural-gas turbines to power the second data center. However, the Greater Memphis Chamber said the company is “is demobilizing turbines in Shelby County.”

    By Samuel Hardiman May 16, 2025
  • Premium City of Memphis

    This Memphis budget season is all about ‘sacred cows’

    “Over the next 24 months, I don’t know if there will be a more critical time to set the city up for success or failure,” Memphis City Council Budget Chair Chase Carlisle said.

    By Samuel Hardiman May 08, 2025

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