Reginald Williams was set to retire as principal of a Memphis charter school at the end of the school year. Instead, he was fired just days into the new school year, shortly after state test results showed the school’s scores had plummeted.

Two new crosswalks on Cooper Street at the corners of Felix and Oliver avenues wrap up the first phase of an effort by area businesses to make the Cooper-Young neighborhood safer for pedestrians.

The closure of Target’s Cordova store could affect up to 173 employees, according to a WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) Act notice filed with the state of Tennessee.

Tennessee Valley Authority’s leader told the Memphis City Council Tuesday that the cost of activating the Bellefonte nuclear plant in Alabama as a source of electricity for Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division would be “incomprehensible” and come with significant risks.

Andre Jones and Curtis Jones, partners in Jones Urban Development Co., are seeking a 15-year PILOT incentive to build Malone Park Commons, a 25-unit, ground-up rental development on 0.8 acres in the Malone Park section of Uptown.

An area of Nutbush that is often used for illegal dumping could become a full-time landfill operation.

Gibson’s Donuts is about to expand for the second time in less than three years.

The developers of a multifamily project in South City filed a $10 million building-permit application with construction code officials Friday, Nov. 2.

Downtown Memphis was flooded with pink tutus, pink wigs and pink feathered boas as more than 6,000 runners turned out for the annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018. 

In a sanctuary once desolate, hope floats. More than 200 visitors from across the city attended an open house at Clayborn Temple, where they listened and learned what could be next for the historic Downtown landmark.

Melrose High School’s homecoming on Friday, Oct.19, drew a sea of maroon and gold to Melrose Stadium in Orange Mound.

The city’s largest emergency shelter for the homeless holds a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday for the first phase of a $34 million project replacing its outdated facilities Downtown with a 52,875-square-foot complex.

When Trinette Johnson-Williams was 7 years old, she built a go-kart inspired by “The Little Rascals.”

Lucas Trautman and Kristin Fox-Trautman are redefining family business. 

The Memphis Center for Independent Living has just moved from its street-level headquarters in Midtown to the eighth floor of the 34-story Clark Tower in East Memphis.

Students interested in a career as an embalmer or funeral director will no longer have to drive outside of Shelby County to pursue a degree.

The Na-Jack Market at 1457 National St., which takes its name from its location sandwiched between National and Jackson Avenue near where they converge, may look like just another convenience store – a place to grab a drink and a snack, some cigarettes, maybe a lottery ticket – but once, somewhere between where the stacks of unrefrigerated sodas and the storeroom are now, music history was made here. 

A group of Venezuelan-American businessmen, who manage a local network of pharmacies and medical clinics, are turning a vacated building on the Main Street Mall into a “lifestyle hub.”

Construction contractors get a detailed look Friday, Oct. 5, at changes to the $175 million renovation of the Memphis Cook Convention Center.

Keith and Amy Watson, a couple in Rockford, Illinois, have combined their love of travel, design and history into a side business – Bygone Brand, a retro apparel company.

It’s lunchtime at Treadwell Elementary and the school’s new optional program coordinator, Darlene May, is heading to the cafeteria. Along the way, she’s met by a dozen students shouting, “Hola!” through beaming smiles.

With a vision to repurpose an older building into a boutique hotel, Jay Kumar and Snay Patel immediately fell in love with the charm of the former Press-Scimitar building, located at the corner of Madison Avenue and B.B. King Boulevard.

Instead of waiting to schedule a doctor’s appointment until a health concern comes along, a new clinic in Midtown is taking a more proactive approach to health care.

A shopping center in the heart of East Memphis will soon undergo a renovation.

More feet on the street has long been a mantra in the Downtown Memphis Commission’s effort to attract development and improve quality of life Downtown.