In 2009, the Memphis Regional Megasite -- a 4,100-acre industrial complex between Memphis and Jackson -- was carved out of empty fields. However, since then there have been no tenants. On Tuesday, June 8, Gov. Bill Lee announced $52 million in funding to complete necessary infrastructure at the megasite. The Memphis Flyer’s Toby Sells says that a sewage pipeline leading to the Mississippi River is the main reason for the funding, but it “raises environmental issues”.

Tennessee may be a deep red state, but its two biggest urban areas have large concentrations of Democrats. It's why voters in two of the state's nine congressional districts -- the ninth, in Memphis and the fifth, in Nashville -- are able to elect U.S. Congressmen aligned with other urban voters. That could change.

Up your Summer grill game by cooking fish on a cedar plank.

Republican lawmakers may have a supermajority in the Tennessee General Assembly, but their attempts to impose right-wing ideology on left-wing counties have occasionally met resistance from an unusual source -- the state's conservative courts.

Representatives from local industries affected by the protracted shutdown of the Hernando de Soto Bridge had the ear of the White House this week. 

The process of disinterring Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife from UT Health Sciences Park has begun, years after a statue was removed by the City of Memphis. Daily Memphian reporter Bill Dries says “there was a really tense and ugly confrontation” between Shelby County Commissioner Tami Sawyer and a laborer at the site who made “threats" to Sawyer.

Waters are rising. Not just sea levels, but inland, on rivers and in communities far from any body of water. Climate change, increased development, and aging infrastructure are the main drivers behind flooding in the Midsouth, and it’s expected to get worse. Contributor Richard Banks looks at how local governments are preparing for what many expect will be an even wetter, possibly more calamitous future.

The arrival of fresh strawberries signals the start of summer.