GOP Fractures Exposed

Local Republicans engage in a tempestuous text-messaging thread about party unity heading into the August general election.

Family Matters

County commissioners decline to hear Fox’s Nuclear Family Month proclamation, which critics say doesn’t recognize many familial arrangements.

County Commission has delayed consideration of a phased elimination of the county’s wheel tax until after the August general election.

Two commissioners want more detailed financial reporting from entities receiving county funding, but others are skeptical that it’s needed.

By a razor-thin margin, Knox County Commissioners have adopted a new rule governing the chair’s public comments outside its meetings.

County Commissioner Rhonda Lee’s second attempt to restrict county funding to agencies that ‘sexualize children’ runs into pointed questions.

A planned ‘resort area’ at Melton Hill Park will add amenities but maintain its outdoors allure.

A young Democrat challenges the well-established Republican Commission chair in growth-choked Hardin Valley and Karns.

Mayor Glenn Jacobs is seeking state intervention after Farragut voted down his proposed changes.

Commission Chair Terry Hill faces a Republican primary challenge from first-time candidate and community advocate Julie McBee-Fritts.