TVA officials outlined remediation plans that include trucking treated coal residue to a private landfill near Memphis International Airport.

The long awaited permit clears the way for the park’s redesign to begin moving dirt and creating new features in Tom Lee Park after a three-year planning process that has seen the plans change over time. 

The council also takes up the vote delayed two weeks ago on the sale of the old Union Avenue police station in Midtown, a car lot in Raleigh and takes the first of three votes on restrictions of future oil pipelines within the city.

A new monument on Beale Street honors the 19th century school teacher, journalist and anti-lynching figure. The recognition comes 130 years after Wells left the city just ahead of a mob that ransacked her newspaper office.

After gaining its moment in the spotlight with the Byhalia Connection Pipeline project, MCAP is now looking ahead and figuring out how to face future battles. 

The council’s discussion last week about a car lot in Raleigh could be about some larger changes in zoning. Normally the representative of a district gets final say on the zoning, but that’s not how this is going.

The city’s list of those allowed in City Hall only with a police escort grew to 81 in a wave of protests in 2016 and 2017.

Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division began the process Monday, July 12, of soliciting proposals for possibly cutting ties to the Tennessee Valley Authority, its electric power provider for the past 80 years.

Each silhouette in a new public art installation in the Heights represents a Memphis pedestrian killed by a vehicle in 2020.

An attorney for Plains All American Pipeline told City Council members Tuesday the proposals are “anti-industry” and will be overturned if approved by the council and County Commission.

Funding includes $2.5 million to buy the 17-acre site and the rest for conversion of space to Liberty Bowl parking spaces and city maintenance facilities.

Council members had questions about the land sale coming in below the $6 million appraised value of the property.

Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis briefs City Council members on the opening weekend of the new law.

Also on the council’s agenda Tuesday is a first look at the “Union Station” development on Union Avenue east of McLean, buying the Coke bottling plant property by the Fairgrounds and votes on two historic overlay districts in Crosstown and Vollintine-Evergreen.

The National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report detailing the moments before the airplane crash that claimed the life of civic leader George Cates. 

The announcement comes ahead of the end of a two-month truce on the controversial project as well as efforts by local leaders to slow it down and stop it.

Chauncey Foster and Noah Mertz are traveling the country to feed those in need, pick up litter and connect with people. They stopped in Memphis Thursday. 

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland kicked off the city’s $200 million slate of capital projects over the next three years Tuesday, June 29, in a southwest Memphis park.

Marcia E. Lewis is retiring as the CEO of the Memphis Housing Authority effective Aug. 28.

The Hospitality Hub undertaking Downtown, on land donated by the city and funded by private donors along with the city and county governments, is next to the Hub’s intake area for the homeless.

The scorecard tracks the key votes that closed out the city’s budget season, including cutting off a proposed property tax hike before it got to the floor.

EDGE awarded a $100,000 grant focusing on Whitehaven as part of a large effort to work with local economic development partners throughout the county.

The current Frayser library, located at 3712 Argonne Street, has been a community staple for more than 50 years. While it’s been important for allowing children and adults alike for book access and computer use, it’s also a vital community space for the neighborhood.

A move for a 31-cent tax hike never got to a vote, with a council majority voting down a rule suspension to consider going up on the tax rate. That and other votes Tuesday, June 15, closed out the city’s budget season.

Douglas Emhoff was just in the city last month to push the Biden administration’s infrastructure plan.