The sale price is $800,000 and includes numerous upgrades and a hint of famous DNA that still hangs in the air.

Each neighborhood’s event will feature local vendors and pop-up shops, local performers and temporary street and space activations. The upcoming Alcy-Ball event is set to feature 45 vendors.

However, it could take years for the proposed regulations, which would govern emissions of a cancer-causing chemical, to be finalized and enforced. 

Whiskey-flavored caramel corn gains national attention, taking Kenny and Penny Mickey’s socially conscious business straight to the Barclays Small Business Big Wins contest.

College students from nearly a dozen universities removed 75,000 pounds of trash from McKellar Lake in the past three weeks, intercepting it before it entered the Mississippi River. 

“I’m excited for people to drive by and say, ‘There is Merit in Memphis’” said Lakenna Booker, Memphis Merit Academy’s founder and head of school. 

BallHoggerz BBQ is the real deal. You can get a smoked turkey leg sandwich at lunch for $8, or even go with smoked sausage for $5.

The County Commission vote approves a nonbinding piece of legislation, but it’s a show of support for residents and groups such as Memphis Community Against Pollution. 

Memphis will spend $42 million to replace all 77,000 of its high-pressure sodium streetlights by the end of the year — a move that is equivalent to taking about 10,000 cars off the road. 

Priscilla Presley is challenging a document that would make her granddaughter, 33-year-old actress Riley Keough, the sole trustee to what’s left of the family’s stake in Elvis’ empire. 

The pilot program is starting in the two areas that experience the most frequent and longest power outages: Orange Mound and Sherwood Forest. 

A small, but patient, group of South Memphis residents concerned about a cancer-causing pollutant in their neighborhood waited five hours to address the Shelby County Board of Commissioners yesterday. 

Better Than Ezra will headline a grand opening show as BankPlus Amphitheater christens its new season and renovated venue in April. The number of seats has more than doubled for a total of 9,800.

Shelby County received $60 million for climate resilience projects in 2016 and work is ongoing in Raleigh, Frayser and Millington. A project along South Cypress Creek is just beginning. 

The new facility replaces the Davis YMCA and marks the return of swimming lessons and classes that have seen generations. 

The protests of proposed state laws that would outlaw drag various forms of drag shows came as Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee attended the Wednesday, March 1, opening of the Whitehaven YMCA.

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Talibah Safiya is the first artist to release an album on the University of Memphis’ High Water Records label in almost 20 years. She’s an artist-in-residence at the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music, an entrepreneur and, with her husband, the founder of the Hood Homestead. 

A juvenile and an adult are indicted on first-degree murder, first-degree murder in perpetration of a robbery and especially aggravated robbery. 

Julius Freeman and Ladarius Marion, now both out on bond, are suspects in the shootings at and near Live Lounge on Sunday, Feb. 19.

Ladarius Marion, 21, is charged with second-degree murder, five counts of attempted second-degree murder, and five counts of employment of a weapon during a dangerous felony.

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Eleven people were shot, one who died, at two separate scenes in Whitehaven early Sunday morning, the Memphis Police Department said.

In a General Assembly dominated by Republicans, an incident over the dress code was the first test of how freely Pearson can express his values — without antagonizing colleagues whose help he’ll need to pass legislation.

Members of the reform group Stop Poverty with Policy have been riding MATA bus routes in recent months to understand how transit issues affect passengers’ everyday lives.

The Southern Environmental Law Center said that EtO pollution in Memphis justifies the use of the Shelby County health officer’s emergency powers. The health department disagreed. 

By looking at the cumulative lifetime cancer risk from individual pollutants scientists can glean how much one chemical is contributing to overall risk.