A special sales-tax district could help pay for a new baseball stadium, but at least one City Council member doesn’t want to play ball.
A Blueprint to Block the Bullets
Even without a detailed spending plan, City Council approves $1 million of accelerated funding for violent crime intervention efforts.
Cracking Down and Lifting Up
The city is mixing more aggressive policing with community-building initiatives to address the spike in gun violence.
Grief, Grievances and Grit
With anger and sorrow over the deaths of Austin-East students at a boiling point, city officials say they will redouble efforts to reduce gun violence.
Budget Resilience
Despite the pandemic, the city’s mid-year financial review shows revenues keeping pace with spending, at least for now.
Building Second Chances
East Knoxville’s historic Dogan-Gaither Courts building will become home to men reentering society after prison.
The Year Ahead: City of Knoxville
Amid the pandemic, the city will hold an election and is set to move forward on a variety of initiatives and projects.
Bills for the Breach
Invoices show four firms have collectively charged more than $200,000 to clean up the city’s computer systems after last year’s ransomware hack.
2020 Revue: City of Knoxville
The COVID-19 pandemic was just the first in a series of crises that greeted Mayor Indya Kincannon during her first year in office.
A Time for Atonement
Knoxville Vice Mayor Gwen McKenzie is proposing a $100 million effort for the city to make amends to the Black community for Urban Renewal.