Road closures for RiverArtsFest have been announced. The festival will run October 27 and 28 on Riverside Drive between Jefferson Avenue and Beale Street in Downtown Memphis.

The City of Memphis has been awarded the Point Cloud City grant from the NIST Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program for the Map901: Building Rich Interior Hazard Maps for First Responders proposal.

CitizenFEST is a learning summit on how to exercise civic power, held in three communities across the country and hosted by Citizens University, a national civic organization based in Seattle.

Like in many major cities, this is a decades-old challenge. It is not yet solved, of course.

Memphis Animal Services and the Memphis Fire Department are collaborating on a new program called “Firefighter Fosters.” Foster animals are housed at different fire stations before they head to their next home.

The Memphis City Beautiful Commission launches the campaign this month.

83 men graduated from Manhood University this Saturday in a ceremony held at New Sardis Baptist Church.

In the past week, many Memphians have been confronted with our city’s violent crime challenge in a way that has hit closer to home than before.

On Friday, the City of Memphis Office of Business Diversity and Compliance in partnership with the Memphis Convention Center and MFA, a local venture, will host a prebid meeting and diversity workshop for the Memphis Convention Center renovation project.

The City of Memphis made strides in key areas in August, including decreasing answer time for 911 calls, decreasing violent crime, and increasing the number of applicants at Memphis Police Department.

Mayor Jim Strickland encouraged Memphians to register to vote today, which is National Voter Registration Day.

Since launch, we’ve recorded 560,856 hours of video from body cameras — and slightly more hours (568,751) on in-car cameras.

If you’re a high school senior interested in a career in law enforcement, the Blue Path program with Memphis Police Department may be for you.

Beginning Monday, September 24, crews will begin a project to widen westbound lanes of Poplar Avenue from South Yates Road to 450’ east of the intersection, near the Memorial Park entrance.

We're going to get to the bottom of this. While the TBI is investigating the shooting, our administrative investigation has already started.

The Division of Parks and Neighborhoods has been awarded a grant for the third consecutive year from the USDA Forest Service and the Tennessee Department of Agriculture for Urban and Community Forestry.

We’re heading in the right direction, and we have much, much, much more work ahead of us.

Beginning Tuesday, September 18, and continuing through Friday, September 21, Warford Street between Jackson Avenue and Chelsea Avenue will be closed to through traffic from 6:30 a.m. until 7 p.m. for reconstruction of the railroad spur crossing.

Mayor Jim Strickland announced today the promotions of Chandell Carr and Kyle Veazey to Deputy Chief Operating Officer roles.