On Monday night, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee delivered his first State of the State Address, in which he laid out his budget priorities. As expected, Lee focused heavily on education and criminal justice. 

A group of analysts recently got to wondering: "What if Amazon.com wanted to buy FedEx?" The reason, they speculated, would be to control every leg of a product's journey from the shelf to the end user. 

Samera Khan is giving visitors a tour of her mosque, the Memphis Islamic Center in Cordova. She points out the shoe cubbies outside the main prayer area, and explains other customs surrounding Muslims’ show of faith.

This month, eight local mosques are participating in events designed to show how Muslims fit into the Midsouth community, which included last Saturday’s “Open Mosque” Day.

When the new Allen Combined Cycle Plant was under construction a few years ago, the Tennessee Valley Authority said the advanced technology it contained required more than three million gallons of pure water every day to operate. The water would be pulled directly from the Memphis Sand Aquifer, the source of the city's famously clean drinking water. 

My father found out one day that he had glaucoma when he closed one eye and could not see out of the other.

It’s Mardi Gras!  That means crawfish season is in full swing.

“Spotlight on Lifelong Learning” is a weekly look at some of the exciting public conversations upcoming around Memphis. Host Jonathan Judaken is the Spence L. Wilson Chair in the Humanities at Rhodes College.

While one high-profile bill to close the state primaries to party-only voting fell by the wayside this week, others, like a bill designed to punish police officers for turning off their body cameras, have surfaced. Political analyst Otis Sanford joins us to discuss those and other proposals making their way through the Tennessee General Assembly.

Shelby County youth have greater access to drugs and are more likely to try drugs than other students around the nation.