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East Tennessee high school football scores: TSSAA live updates from Week 2
Tennessee high school football teams are now in their routines as Week 2 of the 2024 TSSAA football season continues Friday. Alcoa travels to Bearden in the Knox News Game of the Week on Friday, looking to avoid a 0-2 start. Bearden won in triple OT over West in a Saturday opener last weekend, while the Tornadoes lost at home to Ravenwood. ...
TWRA News: Prepping for Archery Season
Middle Tennessee archery hunters who want to hone their skills prior to the upcoming deer hunting season have options. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) maintains and partners in several archery ranges in the mid-state area for sportsmen to utilize. TWRA archery ranges are located at Cheatham WMA Firing and...
TNStars Giving Away $5,000 in Scholarships During College Savings Month
September is College Savings Month, and the TNStars College Savings 529 Program is helping to jump-start savings by giving away $5,000 in scholarships during the month. The prizes will be awarded into a TNStars scholarship account. Now through Sept. 30, Tennessee residents 21 and older can enter at TNStars.com to...
Tennessee chief justice sees Northeast Recovery Center as model for state
ROAN MOUNTIAN, Tenn. (WJHL) — Tennessee Supreme Court Chief Justice Holly Kirby sees the Northeast Tennessee Regional Recovery Center as a model program to be used to benefit communities across the state. Kirby visited the recovery center on Friday. The facility began taking patients last October. “It sounded amazing, of using opioid settlement money, specifically […]
Registration open for Oak Ridge Dance Cats Jr. Clinic; K-11th graders welcome
Aspiring dancers in kindergarten through 11th grade are invited to participate in the upcoming Dance Cats Junior Clinic hosted by the Oak Ridge High School Dance Cats on Saturday, Sept. 14, at the Wildcat Arena. Dancers will learn the official fight song, along with dances and chants that the Dance Cats perform at...
Tennessee to Let Teachers Carry Guns Caused Ruckus, but Has Drawn Little Interest
Josh Arrowood carries his .22-caliber handgun most everywhere he goes in his rural Tennessee community — to church at Freewill Baptist, at the Food City store where he shops for groceries, and in the Greene County Courthouse, where he serves as a commissioner. A new state law that passed this spring would let him, under […]
Tennessee’s dove season opens on September 1 at noon, marking the start of one of the state’s most cherished outdoor sports traditions
Chattanooga, TN – According to the state officials, this year’s opening day coincides with a Sunday over the Labor Day weekend. Outside of the opening day, hunting hours are from one-half hour before sunrise until sunset. Doves are prevalent throughout Tennessee, with the highest concentrations found in farming...
VIDEOS: Meteor seen passing over the Tri-Cities
TRI-CITIES, Tenn./Va. (WJHL) — Multiple viewers across the Tri-Cities have sent videos of a meteor passing over the area early Friday morning. The videos below show a meteor passing through the sky around 1 a.m. Meteorologist Jeremy Eisenzopf says meteors are random and there’s really no way to track when one will pass over. Meteors […]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Unveils PATH, a Platform to Modernize Insulation in Buildings
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is shaping the future of construction with a new digital platform, PATH, designed to streamline and automate the retrofitting of buildings suffering from poor thermal insulation—a condition affecting roughly 50 million buildings across the U.S., according to recent developments. Inefficient structures contribute to excess carbon emissions and inflated utility costs, and the platform, being developed by the national lab, aims to address this by modernizing the retrofit process from initial design right through to the installation.
To counter the state’s high fetal mortality rates, Tennessee officials launch “Count the Kicks” app
While fetal mortality rates have declined in Tennessee, they still remain among the highest in the nation, prompting the Department of Health to launch a new app-based maternal health initiative designed to help pregnant patients track fetal movement — an early signal of fetal distress. Fetal mortality rates in Tennessee have fallen 18% in the […]
Stockard on the Stump: Memphis replaces Nashville as legislative leaders’ target
The tempest rising out of Memphis is threatening to turn Nashville into a political backwater, at least for the moment. Since Republican lawmakers returned from the woodshed after a legal whipping over failed efforts to run Metropolitan Nashville, they appear to have shifted their efforts to controlling West Tennessee’s largest city. House Speaker Cameron Sexton […]
Burn Bans In Effect In Middle Tennessee
Burn Bans are in effect for some communities across Middle Tennessee. Locally Burn Bans are in place for Lawrenceburg and Loretto, plus other areas in Middle Tennessee including, Gallatin, Brentwood, Mt. Juliet, and La Vergne. A burn ban is issued due to overly dry conditions and a heightened need for...
Knox County Board Halts Farragut Gas Station Project After Residents' Appeal Over Zoning Concerns
The Knox County Board of Zoning Appeals has put the brakes on a contentious development proposal for Concord Road in Farragut. This decision reached in a 6-to-1 vote on Wednesday, favored an appeal filed by neighbors against the construction of a combination gas station and restaurant, citing concerns over the project’s fit within the existing residential character of the neighborhood.
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (9/1 – 9/14/2024)
If you want your event included, please make a Facebook event, invite me via the “invite” button on the event page (Alan Sims – you’ll have to friend me), and it will be included. I need enough lead time that the list can be put together the Wednesday before you want your event included.
Rucker: This was supposed to look easy. It wasn't supposed to look this easy.
When you live and breathe something for 365 days per year and are guaranteed no more than 12 opportunities to watch it live, it's tough to place anything in those dozen days in the proper perspective, at least in the moment. When a team like. (ranked No. 15 in the...
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