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KIMBERLIN HEIGHTS — Visitors to Seven Islands State Birding Park have increased access to the French Broad River thanks to a new public boat launch.

The pink-and-black building that was once home to Halloween go-to Big Don’s the Costumier is now a pile of rubble in the Old City.

Both Anderson County Commission and Oak Ridge City Council have expressed concerns over a proposed new nuke dump in Oak Ridge and say that the U.S. Department of Energy needs to ante up more support for local governments if the project moves forward.

Knox County Schools Superintendent Jim McIntyre will ask the school board to extend his contract through December 2019. His current contract runs through December 2017.

An Oak Ridge man remained in the Anderson County Jail Tuesday, accused of wounding two people in a shootout on Friday the 13th.

A 15-year-old Grace Christian Academy student who hoped to play football died Monday after being struck by a car on Oak Ridge Highway.

A woman was rushed to a hospital Tuesday morning after authorities found her with a stab wound to the stomach at an East Knoxville motel.

Leon Houston today will get a second chance to try to convince jurors his vow to kill an attorney — captured on a recorded jail telephone line — was an angry rant, not a “true threat” of harm.

A hearing is set today in the case of a former first lady of Knox County now accused of launching a cyberattack on the estranged wife of her multimillionaire paramour.

The free event tonight at Beck Culture Exchange Center in East Knoxville will examine hip hop's perceived connection to violence.