Ethan Pretsch envisioned a system that could use AI and tech to specifically target fires and keep them from spreading.

For Rhodes College, a small liberal arts college that prides itself on creating lifelong learners, apathy about reading can feel not just like a challenge but an affront to its mission. Here’s why students are reading less than ever — and what professors are doing about it.

Brightly colored depictions celebrating the Germantown Greenway are now greeting users as they walk, run or bike along the trail passing underneath Wolf River Boulevard.

Pay a visit to Midtown Hardware on Summer Avenue, and you’ll enter the only independent hardware store in Shelby County owned and operated by women.

Older campers coded platform games similar to “Super Mario Bros.” from the ground up while younger participants worked on the fundamentals of coding by designing game worlds and characters.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools board members settled on a name for the district’s new high school in Frayser. Neighborhood charter school Libertas is also set to expand into high school grades.

When Otis Sanford was growing up in Mississippi, his father would ask him, “What’s in the news?” Answering that question has taken Sanford to places neither of them could possibly have imagined. Now he’s captured the journey in a new book.

How a Midtown business creates community and space for gamers of all ages and creeds.

Severe weather forces cancellation of Alabama concert, meant to be the opener of this year’s Live at the Garden series at the Memphis Botanic Garden

Memphis jumped in front of Norfolk in the top of the first inning, but couldn’t keep the momentum going.

Organizers hope the Step Up Squad Adaptive Camp for children born with limb differences will spur self-confidence, friendship and fun.

Despite the ups and downs in LaQuita Hughes' life, the deaths, rejections and devastation, she’s given every day all she’s had. And that eventually landed her at her own pink, three-story Victorian-style home.

Banana pudding has been the featured dessert at each Orpheum Theatre cast party for more than 30 years.

The last exhibition to open in the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Overton Park is the first solo museum exhibition for David Uzochukwu.

The local face of SpaceX has been making a lot of news as the Houston-based company goes public with a record-setting IPO. The local controversies against that backdrop were discussed on “Behind The Headlines.”

Today’s puzzle is from the Memphis Pride Fest and was taken by Greg Campbell.

Are you a Wordle fan? Try WordRow, a similar game. It’s free to play. 

Are you ready for it? Here are today’s sudokus. 

Mississippi, in Omaha for the first time since winning the national title in 2022, fell 6-2 to North Carolina will try to stave off elimination against Troy on Sunday.

Memphis jumped in front of Norfolk with a five-run second inning, eventually racing away to a 10-2 win.

Former DeSoto Central standout Blaze Jordan is scheduled to join the St. Louis Cardinals Friday night in Minneapolis.

The 220-foot-long boardwalk two years in the making offers an elevated view of the Mississippi River just beyond the edge of Tom Lee Park.

Musk became the world’s first trillionaire after shares of his rocket company SpaceX, which also operates Memphis data centers, soared in Wall Street’s biggest initial public offering of stock.

Memphis police arrest an alleged child rapist who may have numerous victims over the past two decades or longer.

The Binghampton cafe that opened with a mission of helping the community is closing its doors after seven years.