Crepe myrtle branches have grown over the Velsicol sign on Jackson Avenue near Warford Street. The company’s chemical plant ...

Karanja Ajanaku worked as a journalist in Memphis for much of his life. Photo via Facebook. Photo illustration by Andrea ...

The city is asking community members how it should spend the tax money Mayor Paul Young wants set aside for neighborhoods within a five-mile radius of ...

One of Kerrie Washington’s children runs down the hall (right) while at home in Grahamwood Place Apartments (left). Like some of her neighbors, Washington ...

Jessica James had to get up and down that ramp. Her job at FedEx’s World Hub was to help ensure the trucks in her area were loaded and unloaded on time.

A community rallied, organized, wrangled support, filed and fought lawsuits. National media took notice. Now the Byhalia Pipeline project is no more.

Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto has no psychiatric unit, so it sends patients elsewhere for mental health treatment. When publicly funded facilities are full, some patients go to jail to wait for ...

For South Memphis residents, the announcement that SST will relocate from the almost all-Black neighborhood was a relief.

Former Vice President Al Gore claps while at a rally organized by the Memphis Community Against the Pipeline at Alonzo Weaver Park on Sunday afternoon. Gore and his organization Climate Reality have ...

Across the country, housing construction nose-dived during the Great Recession and has been slow to recover. But while that recovery is almost complete for the U.S. as a whole, Memphis-area builders ...