Board Passes Cautious Resolution on Arming Staff

A political divide blocks an effort to say that ‘only’ security guards and police can have guns on campus.

School Board Will Hear Resolutions on Armed Employees

Superintendent Jon Rysewyk says ‘there’s not a need’ for teachers or other non-security personnel to carry weapons in school.

A study shows that both firearm homicides and suicides have risen across Tennessee in the past decade.

A group of high school students spent three months learning about County Commission. Now they want commissioners’ support in pushing for gun safety.

Respondents agree that more should be done to curb violence in the community but aren’t convinced that political leaders will deliver.

While planning for emergence from the pandemic, the school board confronts the aftermath of another student’s violent death.

The day after a fatal shootout at Austin-East, school officials and city residents confront questions of physical security and spiritual anguish.

One Knoxville police officer was wounded in the confrontation at a school that has experienced a spike in deaths from gunfire this year.

Council unanimously approves a contract with a national association of municipalities to build an anti-violence infrastructure.

As Knoxville struggles with its worst gun violence in years, the state Legislature presses ahead with its permitless carry bill.