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? ...

After being trounced in state elections last year, local Democrats are making a renewed effort to connect with constituents they’re not normally associated with, like small business owners, and ones they may have taken for granted previously: young voters. In ...

Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero’s war against blight opened a new front on Monday with two community meetings. Around a hundred people were in attendance to listen to a panel of neighborhood association members and others who have been involved in ...

“It’s like an episode of Parks and Rec,” a friend e-mailed halfway through the epic Knox County Commission meeting on Monday. And indeed, the meeting could not had been more like the television show if it had tried.

The city’s old “Demolition by Neglect” ordinance finally has a mechanism by which it might make a difference: a $100,000 enforcement budget. Jack Neely reports.

Last week, the charitable Aslan Foundation purchased one of Knoxville’s most unusual historic houses. Westwood on Kingston Pike went for $570,000. Aslan is a fairly new foundation instrumental in purchasing wilderness properties to be included in the Legacy Parks project ...

The sudden retirement of Lady Vols Sports Information Director Debby Jennings was announced last week in a terse, three-paragraph press release that shocked fans of the women’s program—they feared that Jennings’ retirement was not voluntary. A May 18 letter to ...

If School Superintendent Jim McIntyre has his way, what started as a pilot iPad program at Pond Gap Elementary School this year will be extended to every student in all 87 of Knox County’s public schools by 2015. That means ...

Last Wednesday on Market Square, the Knoxville-Knox County Homeless Coalition and the University of Tennessee jointly released two studies with powerful—and dismaying—statistics about the local homeless population.

David Bolt has the distinction of having the first electric meter in Harriman, if not all of Tennessee, to spin backwards. It has been doing this since 2006, and this is a good thing. Since figuring out how to create ...

The mulch fire was pretty much all anyone talked about last week, other than Pat Summitt’s retirement. It was understandable, given the thick wood smoke that spread across town for days, making living rooms smell like fire pits and lungs ...

At first glance, UT’s Dr. Barry Bruce doesn’t come off like a guy whose work could one day change how we approach solar energy. He seems a bit laid-back for a researcher, with a vague Lebowski-like quality emanating from somewhere ...

City Council voted unanimously, and without discussion, to approve an ordinance prohibiting discrimination on the basis of ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, and/or gender identity in hiring.