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Knoxville City Council members Tuesday supported Gov Bill Haslam's Insure Tennessee plan with a symbolic resolution.

A forest fire burning on Walden Ridge in Anderson County on Tuesday night most likely was set by someone, according to the state Division of Forestry.

Three former Scott County jailers have been indicted following an investigation into sexual misconduct at the county jail and at the juvenile detention center, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

A local palliative care doctor, and a national movement, urges families to take advantage of being together for the holidays to talk about their wishes for end-of-life care.

The fall hasn’t brought freezing precipitation yet, but the county and city are ready for winter storms.

First-year graduate students in landscape architecture created models of Mars to explore the surface of the planet.

OAK RIDGE — That's not the way the Volunteer State should act, a 17-year-old Oak Ridge High School senior says of the state's efforts to crack down on admitting Syrian refugees into Tennessee.

Authorities are searching for a Sevierville dentist wanted in connection with the rape and stabbing or a woman outside an East Knoxville motel last week.

Authorities identified a 68-year-old woman as the victim of a fatal house fire in Blount county earlier this month.

The advocacy group plans to hold a news conference following a city council vote on a resolution supporting Insure Tennessee.