MICAH is rallying behind a Shelby County Commission resolution to raise the wheel tax by $20 to increase funding for the Memphis Area Transit Authority.

Commission committees will be asked to consider raising the wheel tax by $20 to fund MATA.

In a letter to the U.S. Department of State, Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris notified federal officials that the county will continue to welcome refugees.

A five-year, $5 million study of potential threats to Memphis’ drinking water supply has been slowed by protracted contract negotiations between MLGW and a University of Memphis research unit. 

The Shelby County Sheriff's Office will begin the New Year patrolling areas that have been de-annexed from Memphis. 

Bobby Lanier, former Germantown alderman and county mayoral aide, died Saturday. He was 90 years old.

MATA now has free Wi-Fi for riders on buses, MATAplus and the trolleys.

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris wants to help the state reinstate driver’s licenses, a huge criminal justice issue for about 100,000 county residents.

Testing has begun at the 39 Shelby County Schools where high levels of lead were found in various water sources.

Funding is in place for a short-term fix for Shelby County's records "catastrophe" and Register of Deeds Shelandra Ford has plans for a long-term solution.

Shelby County Commission Chairman Mark Billingsley thinks the full commission will be able to vote on revised county residency rules for workers by late January.

Nearly two months after Shelby County Register of Deeds Shelandra Ford threatened to stop overseeing the management of documents for other elected officials, she left the County Commission meeting Monday, Dec. 9, with the money she said she needed.

A new policy approved by the Shelby County Commission will make it easier for suburban school systems to tap into capital improvement funds.

Shelby County Commission Chairman Mark Billingsley will establish an ad hoc committee to clarify the county's residency requirements for county employees.

MICAH officials on Wednesday offered the Shelby County Commission alternatives that would raise all of the $30 million needed to fully fund the Memphis Area Transit Authority.

An ad hoc committee will dig down into residency requirements for Shelby County employees, ahead of any discussions about ending the requirement entirely. 

The Shelby County Commission's general government committee will discuss ways to tighten employee residency requirements or getting rid of them all together on Wednesday.

The various Shelby County law enforcement agencies will oversee implementation of a new security camera program for the county, according to a resolution approved Monday by the County Commission to establish program guidelines.

The Shelby County Commission voted Monday to transfer $80,000 to the Health Department to cover the cost to test potentially 19,000 students at 35 schools where excessive levels of lead were found in water sources.

The full Shelby County Commission is set to vote on the Raleigh TIF district Nov. 18 and Memphis City Council must also approve it before it goes into effect. 

A former EPA official told Shelby County commissioners Wednesday the county can fight pollution by investing in public transportation.

Shelby County Schools officials Wednesday assured county commissioners that the 60 water sources in schools with high lead levels are being addressed, while county health department officials say risk to students is minimal.

Shelby County officials have completed an investigation into where Anthony Alexander, corrections division director, lives and found he is in compliance with residency requirements.

A Shelby County Commission committee has agreed on the process of buying security cameras for all 13 commission districts.

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris will bring in local health department officials and a national environmental advocate to help make the case to county commissioners Wednesday to invest in transit to aid the environment.