In 2025, Memphis’ number of murders declined more than 25% since the year before. 

Recently, The Daily Memphian obtained daily Task Force reports between October and early December, giving us more insight into the operations than ever before. 

The greater chestnut weevil hadn’t been definitively seen since the 1990s. Many assumed it was extinct. But not two scientists at the University of Memphis. 

Interested in a plant-based lifestyle? Newsletter editor Bianca Phillips has thoughts and tips. 

During the AM/DM AMA, we talk about media bias, xAI and what might happen with The Station. 

We know how many of Memphis’ elected officials feel about the task force, but what about regular people, just trying to live their lives? What do they think?

After the countdowns and the ball drops, there’s still plenty happening this week. 

If you’re looking for something to do this weekend, hopefully you like music or comedy. Or both. 

A new strategic plan should take Collierville into 2050, but what that will look like — and what it will mean for the town — is still up in the air. 

The shift to gas-powered trucks means West Tennessee isn’t tied to the nation’s precarious EV market. 

Because of term limits, Shelby County will see a new mayor, new sheriff and new county clerk — positions currently held by Lee Harris, Floyd Bonner Jr. and Wanda Halbert, respectively — elected in 2026. 

We’re wrapping ourselves in holiday music and movies this week. 

Liberty Park was supposed to be an economic catalyst for Memphis. It still could be, but so far, the tax growth it needs hasn’t come to fruition. 

The Station is headed back to the City of Memphis’ Alcohol Commission at 9 a.m. this morning, and the would-be liquor store hopes it’ll be granted a license.

Today, we’re talking to enterprise reporter Laura Testino about her first-hand look inside the facility and what the district hopes to accomplish. 

It’s the last full, holiday-free week of the year and time to get business done.

This weekend is awash in holiday parades — and you can even see Daily Memphian newsletter editor Bianca Phillips in person, during a Downtown parade. 

Before there was the Memphis Safe Task Force, there was Viper, an FBI operation that occurred very quietly over the past summer. 

For the past year and a half, the Shelby County Jail — commonly known as 201 Poplar — has been over its 2,400-inmate capacity. 

Today, editorial director Mary Cashiola talks to University of Memphis football reporter Frank Bonner about where the program is now, how important the new coach is for the university and what to know as the Tigers go into the Gasparilla Bowl in Tampa. 

Today, editorial director Mary Cashiola and newsletter editor Bianca Phillips discuss the Greater Memphis Chamber’s Annual Chairman’s Luncheon, one of the best local networking events of the year — if you ask Cashiola. 

This weekend is St. Jude Memphis Marathon weekend, but that doesn’t mean the fun stops. It some ways, it just keeps going ... for 26.2 miles. 

Today, The Daily Memphian’s resident theater kid Alys Drake, who also writes our monthly show roundup, takes us through December’s offerings. 

Public safety reporter Aarron Fleming recently got an inside look at the day-to-day operations during a ride-along with Warrant Team Bravo, as they moved to find and arrest a homicide suspect. 

Food writer Jennifer Chandler has brought her “Recipe Exchange” back to The Daily Memphian.