The 2026 Cooper-Young Fest takes place from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, in the Midtown neighborhood.

Crews are demolishing the First Horizon building, and developers are building a restaurant in the former Houston’s site.

MATA plans to resume trolley service Downtown in the fall with four trolleys, according to the trustee of the city-owned bus system. Plus, an update on the city’s recently revamped Group Violence Intervention Program from City Council coverage.

A new level of exclusivity is coming to Downtown Memphis’ Peabody hotel.

After canceling plans for a Downtown location, The Ginger’s Bread & Co. will open a second spot in Midtown.

M.J. Edwards Riverdale Life Celebration Center continues legacy while expanding offerings to include weddings and other events.

New York City-based Urban Dove, a charter school organization, won approval to open two campuses in Memphis. Tennessee’s new ‘opportunity’ charter schools seek to reshape what education can look like for students who have fallen behind because of attendance, academics or behavior.

A real estate company is looking into building something big on undeveloped land near SpaceXAI’s Colossus data center.

Jo Ann Street devoted much of her life to ensuring that those in her North Memphis neighborhood — particularly the children — had access to beautiful, safe green spaces to swim, play or just take a quiet moment to think.

On Friday, July 31, Morgan Powers retired after working at the Memphis Zoo for more than half a century. Here’s a look at his long and exciting career. 

The Nineteenth Century Cub building at 1433 Union Ave., which was built as a private home in 1909, is on the market for $3.8 million.

Memphis Library’s secondhand bookstore at its Central location will reopen Friday, but other book sales remain paused.

Coffee potheads have a new place to go in Midtown. And so do the matcha lovers in Downtown.

What started as a routine Saturday patrol turned into a three-hour race against time as Memphis Police Department officers worked alongside emergency-communications personnel to rescue a man trapped in the currents of Cypress Creek.

The breakfast and lunch diner has a new weekday morning special, “Grumpy Hour,” offering customers any menu entree, except the steak and eggs, plus drip coffee for only $10 from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

The number of people visiting Downtown is holding at about 85% of pre-COVID numbers, according to the Downtown Memphis Commission.

Also in this edition of Inked: American Deli may be taking over a former Wendy’s restaurant in the Wolfchase area, and an HVAC company bought a Southeast Memphis building.

County Commissioner Charlie Caswell Jr. says the ShelbyCares health hub, a partnership between UTHSC and county government, will help “break that generational curse” in North Memphis.

The Pasadena, California-based hot chicken chain will occupy one of the five suites in the former 15,000-square-foot corner space that housed Spin Street before it closed in 2017.

Grant & Co. pulled construction permits for The Levee, an estimated $40 million development with 300 units spread across 11 buildings.

The estimated $7 million renovation became possible as part of a $60 million federal grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to help areas affected by the 2011 floods.

MSCS leaders ramped up chronic absenteeism interventions this past year, aiming to reduce chronic absenteeism rates for the first time since 2017.

Renovations have been approved for the “Old” Daisy Theater on Beale Street after a June 2025 electrical fire.

Charles Phillips takes a break at Mud Island Marina from the Huck Finn journey that’s been exciting, enlightening, and on occasion terrifying.

Ballet Memphis holds an open house to showcase all it offers to the community. Besides dance for adults and kids, there’s Pilates and classes for Parkinson’s patients.