McNally Bows Out
The lieutenant governor and Senate speaker, whose district includes a slice of Knox County, will step down after nearly 50 years in the state Legislature.
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February 24, 2026State party executive committee rejects the Knox County Conservative Republicans’ bid to purge the GOP commissioner from the primary ballot.
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February 23, 2026A weekly mystery photo to test your knowledge of the local landscape.
February 20, 2026A group of Knoxville religious leaders who were in Minneapolis when federal agents killed Alex Pretti talk about fear and hope in the city.
February 19, 2026A donation from the Boyd Foundation pushes a Friends of the Smokies endowment for historic preservation in Great Smoky Mountains National Park to $9 million.
February 18, 2026The multiagency project to build 20 tiny houses for veterans experiencing homelessness is officially underway.
February 17, 2026A ‘thigh-burning’ climb, elusive landmarks and a beagle mix named Caesar on a trek in Cherokee National Forest near Hartford.
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All free to read and share.- County commissioners are taking up immigration issues as outrage grows over federal agents’ killing of a man in Minnesota.
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- Single-issue advocacy committees have formed on both sides of the city’s referendum question on raising the local-option sales tax.