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Memphis football comes home Saturday, Sept. 5 at 6 p.m. against Arkansas State, and the building waiting on the crowd is not the one that closed out last season. Saturday is the first game since the completion of the Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium renovation that started in 2024. The most obvious change is the new…

A Memphis headquartered bank is about to show up on the front of Tennessee jerseys. First Horizon has extended its partnership with Tennessee Athletics and will become the program’s first ever jersey patch sponsor, a reported $120 million agreement over 10 years according to the Memphis Business Journal. The patch spans football plus volleyball, soccer,…

Something new is rolling onto the streets of Memphis. The Memphis Area Transit Authority has welcomed a new fleet of buses, 12 to start, the first visible piece of an effort of nearly $50 million to modernize public transportation across the city. Interim CEO Rodrick Holmes says the investment was a long time coming. “We…

Blog 4 Preview – Grizzlies Prep Grizzlies Prep has officially opened the doors on its new campus in South Memphis, giving the growing charter school more room to expand its STEM programming. The school, which carries the Memphis Grizzlies name and mission into the classroom, has built its reputation around pairing rigorous academics with the…

Blog 3 Preview – Food Aid Memphis Cares, a partnership between the city, Memphis City Council, and United Way of the Mid South, is putting up to $100,000 toward food assistance for residents hit hardest by last weekend’s severe storms. “For many Memphis families, days without power also meant losing groceries they simply can’t afford…

Memphis is having a moment in gospel music. Lisa Knowles-Smith, 42, was the biggest winner at the 2026 Stellar Gospel Music Awards, taking home five trophies during the ceremony taped live at Charlotte’s Spectrum Center and hosted by Kirk Franklin. Four of Knowles-Smith’s wins came for her album Revival: Live in Dallas, recorded with The…

A former hotel on Riverdale Bend Road in Southeast Memphis is now permanent housing for more than 100 veterans, thanks to a conversion project from the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. Darien Goods, a U.S. Army veteran who experienced homelessness after leaving the service in 2022, is one of the new residents. “Once you’re in survival…

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Memphis campus is in the middle of a major capital improvement push, with more than $600 million in projects completed, underway, or planned. Among the plans: a multi-use development at the corner of Madison and Pauline in the Medical District that would bring apartments, retail, and restaurants to…

Volunteers put the finishing touches this week on a new STEM center in Orange Mound, giving kids as young as elementary school age free access to engineering, robotics, and coding tools. The center, housed at Red Zone Ministries, was made possible by the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation and the Tennessee Valley Authority. “As they even…