There are a lot of pages in the Knoxville Tourism and Sports Corporation documents released late last Wednesday night. There are contracts and board meeting minutes and financials and stacks and stacks of spreadsheets. But when you look at the ...

Rocky Wynder’s long career linked the era of tent vaudeville and black speakeasies to a time of upscale-restaurant jazz nights in a reborn downtown. He began his career before rock ’n’ roll, and dabbled with R&B, but always favored jazz, ...

Megan Mullins was browsing Craigslist, looking for baby things, when one “Wanted” plea seemed to leap off the screen: a woman who had just recently moved to town, in desperate need for diapers for her toddler. Mullins responded, and discovered ...

The announcement that a major development involving the Florida-based Publix grocery chain and international retail Godzilla Walmart would be lumbering toward central Knoxville was startling news in itself. But this 211,000-square-foot development is proposed for the foot of Cumberland Avenue, ...

What to do with the smoky remains of the McClung warehouses on Jackson Avenue downtown is an issue that won’t go away—mainly because little progress has been made since the historic buildings went up in flames in 2007. Recently, the ...

It’s usually unalloyed good news when Tennessee industrial recruiters sweet-talk a baron of industry into relocating to the Volunteer State, but it’s tough to find any Tennessean who’s ready to roll out the welcome mat for Don Blankenship. The former ...

Thirty percent of Tennessee’s population lives in a high poverty area. And while Knox County may be in better shape than many of its neighbors, like Union County, where 40 percent of school-age children live in poverty, area service providers ...

The handwriting is on the wall, or so it would seem for Knoxville’s Lakeshore Mental Health Institute—even though the state’s plan to shut down the 125-year-old facility still has to pass muster with Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and the General ...

When several national banks instituted new fees on ATM cards—making you pay for the privilege of spending your own money—many consumers revolted. But they didn’t just send angry e-mails—they moved their accounts to local credit unions. Jesse Fox Mayshark takes ...

When Tennessee’s new voter ID laws take effect on Jan. 1, their ostensible purpose will be to cut down on voter fraud. But critics say the only fraud lies in the notion that the new law is actually intended to ...

The list of things that have never happened in Knoxville isn’t long, but last Wednesday evening’s event at the Square Room may have been one: in a nightclub setting, more than four hours of lectures on a liberal variety of ...

As of this Thursday, it has been 344 days since the Metropolitan Planning Commissioned approved a plan to protect local hillsides and ridgetops. In that time, governments have toppled across North Africa, Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan, Wall ...

For the second time in two years, the Tennessee Clean Water Network, the Sierra Club, and Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment have filed suit against National Coal LLC. This time, the activist groups are hoping the three lawsuits they filed ...

In the end, it turned out like everyone expected. Madeline Rogero entered the race for Knoxville mayor late last year as the presumptive front-runner, and nothing that happened all year shook the sense that she was headed for victory. Here's ...

A month since rollout began Oct. 3, the city’s new, free, curbside recycling program has posted big numbers and encountered only a few problems.