Gov. Bill Haslam wants school vouchers, the Legislature wants a statewide charter authorizer, and those aren’t the only education reform measures heading down the pike this session. But the leaders of two of the most powerful non-profits influencing the changes ...

Jim Conant and Brian Carniello are board members of the Buddhist center, and are sitting quietly against the wall in chairs on the opposite end of the room from the altar. Essentially, that’s what Buddhism is about: finding a peaceful ...

First Night Knoxville had taken over Market Square every New Year’s Eve since 2007, but for the first time since its inauguration, it’s not happening.

As the 112th Congress draws to a close and the “fiscal cliff” dominates the news out of Washington, D.C., Tennessee stands to gain nearly 20,000 acres of new wilderness protection for six of the wildest parts of the Cherokee National ...

After a fiery public meeting on the James White Parkway extension, it’s clear that both sides want their way. But that’s the only thing clear about the project, reports Cari Wade Gervin.

Starting early next year, Knoxville will have Zipcar car-sharing both downtown and on the University of Tennessee’s campus.

The UT Faculty Senate passed a resolution in April supporting benefit equality for all partnered employees of the university, whether married, or unmarried and in domestic partnerships. It was rejected by the university, but that hasn’t stopped faculty and staff ...

Tuesday night at a public meeting, the city rolled out a long-term plan to fix a problem people have been complaining about since the 20th century: a lack of coherent, informative signage. Jack Neely gives them a look.

Brian Stevens is a young and exuberant would-be politician. And he’ll need every bit of that energy because he’s already begun a two-year campaign against one of the most competitive and controversial politicians in the state (and arguably in the ...

It’s a plan that nobody seems to want except for TDOT: to extend the unfinished James White Parkway. This will destroy neighborhoods, ruin plans for South Knoxville’s urban wilderness, and make life even more difficult for Chapman Highway merchants. So ...

After the Valarium announced its closing, citing liquor laws as the reason, it raised questions over how onerous these state requirements are. But as Cari Wade Gervin discovered, they’re actually less tough than they were before.

TVA’s coal-fired power plant in Gallatin is 60 years old, and the agency plans to spend up to a billion dollars bringing it up to new EPA standards. But environmental groups say the plant, one of the dirtiest in the ...

We visit Knox County's Republican and Democratic election-night parties to report from the front lines of victory and defeat.

The Nov. 6 election ballot includes charter amendments for both the city and the county. Have you conducted your charter amendment research yet? Well, if you haven’t, Cari Wade Gervin has done the work for you in this analysis.

After playing for the University of Tennessee from 1978-1981 (where he majored in sociology and minored in business administration), Hancock played five seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs (who picked him in the first round of the 1982 draft) before ...