If you see a pickup truck driving through your neighborhood, spraying a mist into your yard, you don’t need to count yourself paranoid for wondering what the stuff is, what it’s for, and what it’s likely to do to you.

Natosha Carson once found solace in the chapel of the famous Minister’s Tree House that peeks above the trees of Crossville. She went there one day when she felt like her life was falling apart because of an abusive relationship. ...

It’s mid-morning on Friday, and the small assembly room at the City-County Building has about 20 people in it—more if you count the kids. There’s a large projection screen in front of the two historical paintings, and Robert Moyers, the ...

In the middle of the road, sitting on a painted canvas, was Alejandro Guizar, 19. He chanted along with everyone else, even as police handcuffed him and three others before taking them to the Knox County jail.

Last week, the city approved a $250,000 grant to developers of downtown’s Arnstein Building to help them lure in national retail chain Urban Outfitters. The project had previously been approved for a $300,000 CBID grant, and a TIF incentive. Should ...

The director of the Volunteer Women’s Medical Clinic announced its closure last week, citing the Life Defense Act. Meanwhile, state legislators have more bills in the works, as Cari Wade Gervin reports.

November will mark the first presidential election since Harry S. Truman upset Thomas E. Dewey that there’ll be no ballots cast at Belle Morris Elementary School. The Knox County Election Commission, by a 3-2 party-line vote, voted this week to ...

The new policy announced by the Obama Administration in June allows undocumented young adults (ages 15-30) who came to the United States as children to apply to remain in the country for two years without further deportment action being taken ...

As part of Metro Pulse’s ongoing discussions with local religious leaders, “Questions of Faith,” we present Knoxville’s newest rabbi: Matt Michaels at Temple Beth-El.

Loudon County farmer Chris Burger has livestock he’d like to sell as meat—but he has to take it Chattanooga to be slaughtered. Knoxville does not have its own abattoir, and they’re expensive to build. But what if there was a ...

The pilot program created by a bill sponsored by state Sen. Becky Duncan Massey will provide two years of funding for 10 people to be treated for mental illness as outpatients each year through the Helen Ross McNabb Center.

Early voting may have already gotten underway last Friday, but there’s still a ways to go before the Aug. 2 primary election. And as we reported last week, this year’s election has a twist: redistricting.

Friday marks the first day of early voting for the August 2 primary, the first election since this year’s post-Census redistricting. Chances are, your district looks mighty different than it did last time you voted for your state and federal ...

In April, the Tennessee Legislature passed the Life Defense Act, requiring doctors who perform abortions to have hospital admitting privileges. This new law and the death of a local doctor have made the availability of abortion in Knoxville uncertain, as ...

A 2010 report from the Brookings Institution found that 85 percent of commuters here drive alone to work every day. Enter Smart Trips: an organization aiming to change this statistic. But can they really change ingrained habits with gift cards? ...