The school system’s comprehensive plan to improve special education includes ambitious goals to serve a fast-growing subgroup of students.

With 9th District candidate Brandy Jenkins’ victory, the board’s Democrats will have a 5-4 majority.

The school board will have the last say in removing books from library shelves, and previously banned books will get a second look.

Serenity can be found even among snakes and bears on an overnight camping trip in the mountains of Unicoi County.

School board members complained they got no advance notice that revenues would be withheld, and that elected officials would get pay raises amid job and pay cuts.

A cold plunge into a mountain pool provides a new perspective and straightens the spirit — as well as the innards.

Players offer their initial opinions on the turf developed by UT and Michigan State researchers for the stadiums hosting World Cup matches.

The hurricane changed the river flowing from Western North Carolina into East Tennessee, but paddling its waters remains invigorating.

Alums Dee and Jimmy Haslam have donated $130 million to the University of Tennessee — the largest gift in the institution’s history — to support academics.

Ijams Nature Center outing allows paddlers to observe eagles and otters and other wildlife from kayaks on the Tennessee River.