No students hurt in shooting near local school Jackson Police officers are investigating a shooting that took place on Jan. 16, 2025, at approximately 3 p.m. The incident occurred on the …

Is crime rising in Jackson? That’s a topic of debate in the area every time notifications of a murder, shooting, stabbing or some other violent crime spread through the area on social …

The Madison County Commission meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 21, was over in just under 90 minutes, but there were a number of adamant discussions about different issues that happened in that time. …

As the Jackson-Madison County Chapter spent most of Monday morning, Jan. 20, celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a few of its sister organizations, NAACP President Harrell Carter took a few …

In a year that saw three consecutive months of record-low unemployment, Tennessee ended 2024 with an unemployment rate well below the U.S. rate, according to data from the Tennessee Department of …

There are 13 Tennessee Veterans' Services offices across the state, and Jackson has one of them. The staff and a number of state and local luminaries celebrated the ribbon cutting for Jackson's …

The City of Jackson may have figured out its capital plan. Nine days after the City Council voted to decrease its maximum amount of debt it was willing to take on via bond issue from $36 million …

It’s not official yet, but the City of Jackson, Madison County and Jackson-Madison County Schools appear to be headed toward a compromise for the off-site improvements for the new Pope School. …

The themes of Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration in Jackson with the Jackson-Madison County NAACP and other sister organizations were “Fight Twice as Hard” and …

Public comment periods would be eliminated at county commission and city council meetings on applications for new property developments if the proposed development substantially complies with …

A pair of lawmakers who in 2023 shepherded a new public comment requirement for meetings under the Open Meetings Act are seeking to expand the law to require governing bodies to allow public comment …

University of Tennessee Extension will once again host the West Tennessee Grain and Soybean Producers Conference on February 6 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Dyer County Fairgrounds, located at 296 …

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced that he will call for the Tennessee General Assembly to convene a special session on Monday, January 27, to pass the Education Freedom Act. Additionally, the …

Sgt. Warren Olden served in the Jackson Police Department for nearly 30 years, more than half of that as the bailiff in Jackson City Court. “He spent 15 years with us in the …

On Tuesday, Jan. 7, the City of Medina sent a press release announcing its new interim Chief of Police, Phillip Kemper. Kemper has been in law enforcement for more than 20 years, feeling called …

Beth Ann Simpson and Jackson Downtown Development got an early Christmas present in December when the state announced they'd be awarded a grant of more than $300,000 for development in the city. …

The Republican caucus of the Madison County Commission met on Jan. 13, and they discussed a few items set to be on the agenda for the County Commission meeting a week later. Ten Commissioners …

Richard Barber didn’t know what he was walking into when he showed up at Aspell Recovery on the morning of Jan. 13. For 20 years, he’d served as the executive director of the …

Julian Smith is a native of Beech Bluff, but he made history on Jan. 8 as the first ROTC cadet at Lane College to be commissioned as an officer in the United States Army. The program has been …

LOCAL BRIEFS NAACP’s MLK celebration The Jackson-Madison County Chapter of the NAACP will commemorate the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday with a series of events …