Katie Riordan

A local U.S. Army veteran has been trying to help a former Afghan colleague and translator and his family escape the Taliban.

Immigration advocates and Shelby County officials are asking residents for help in their efforts to resettle refugees from Afghanistan in the Midsouth.

Birders flocked to Pickwick Dam and Reservoir to spot rare visitors from the coast, brought here by the winds of Hurricane Ida.

Tennessee is the latest state to take its fight over masks in schools to a judge.

They helped the U.S. during the occupation of Afghanistan. Now, they watch an exodus unfold from their new home in the Midsouth with a growing sense of urgency.

A Memphis refugee resettlement agency is advocating for the city to take in more Afghan nationals who aided the U.S. government during its two-decades long war in the country.

Transmission of COVID-19 is on the rise in Shelby County as a more contagious strain of the virus, known as the Delta variant, spreads across the country.

At the corner of Fourth and Beale Streets in Downtown Memphis, stands Ida B.Wells, proud and strong, with one hand gripping a pen resting on her hip and the other clutching a copy of the local newspaper she co-owned.

Saturday's Juneteenth celebration in Memphis came with double the significance this year. It was the first time June 19th was recognized as a national holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S. And it was held in a park once defined by a controversial memorial to Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate Civil War general who also ran a local slave trading business and later helped form the Ku Klux Klan. After a decades-long fight to remove the monument, some of those involved reflect on how it was finally accomplished.

The remains of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife were disinterred from Memphis’ Health Sciences Park on Monday. Officials announced…