With early voting starting this week, the lobbying for Germantown voters to decide if they want to go the full-time mayor’s route has increased.

“We need to change our form of government. We need to ensure our city has the full-time leadership needed to meet the demands of today and the expectations of the future.”

A Lakeland citizens advisory group thinks the suburbs’ elected officials deserve a bump in salary and have recommended raises for them — a decision that still have several steps to clear before enacted.

With the nearby courthouse and law offices circling the DeSoto County square in Hernando, The Docket seemed like a valid name for a new restaurant, even though the owners have a medical background.

In late January, sleet, snow and then more sleet fell in Germantown. Now, the city is doubling down on its winter weather response.

He did so after being encouraged by his mother’s best friend Jeannine Paul, a then-94-year-old Memphis artist.

One Shelby County suburb is putting restrictions on vaping at 21-and-up venues. How are other suburbs handling vaping and smoke shops?

When a local group missed out on Topgolf coming to DeSoto County, they decided to switch to pickleball with the same recipe -- the sport to go with meeting rooms, restaurant and a trio of bars.

City Hall Cheesecake owner Kim Daly used to be frustrated that ex-offenders weren’t given second chances. Then she decided she could do something about it by buying a bakery.

Dutch Bros Coffee is joining several other coffee outlets along U.S. 64 in Lakeland, while the business is also spreading into Bartlett. 

A recycling drive at the Tanger Outlets in Southaven will take donated sneakers and transform them into things like soft play surfaces.

Suburban representation on the MLGW board is a long-standing debate tied to a bunch of intertwined issues. But about a third of the customers who live outside of Memphis have no voting voice on that body.

Singer-songwriter and bassist Mark Edgar Stuart opens the spring series on May 7.

Last month, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Permit Board approved an xAI subsidiary’s application to erect 41 natural gas turbines.

Matthew Ramsey is managing the Artemis II mission, but his roots are in DeSoto County where he played sports and learned from STEM programs at Hernando High.

About 30% of the MLGW’s customers live outside the city limits, and new legislation in Nashville could give them a say on the board. 

With Cajun delicacies from crawfish to shrimp, the second-annual Bayou Bash is slated for Saturday in Bartlett with hopes for better weather than the rainy first year.

At least four pairs of specialty eyeglasses for viewing eclipses traveled from Bartlett to the moon as part of NASA’s manned Artemis II mission to fly by the moon.

DeSoto County District Attorney Matthew Barton highlighted lower crime statistics in his State of the County address.

The Memphis Light, Gas and Water community office in Millington will be closed several months for renovations.

AutoZone is looking at another Collierville location, which could add more activity to an already bustling Houston Levee Road. 

Burlington is looking to fill an empty retail space in Germantown. It would be the brand’s sixth store in Shelby County.

Germantown has about $27 million planned in improvements as part of the 2026-27 budget.

While proponents tout the benefits of solar energy, some residents in north Shelby County think those developments are encroaching on their rural lifestyle.

In DeSoto County, joining the local Search and Rescue unit means logging thousands of training hours, swimming miles in open water and responding to traumatic scenes at a moment’s notice.