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An official with the company that operates the challenge course at Ijams Nature Center where an 18-year-old was fatally injured said he hopes to reopen the attraction next week.

In a new effort to attract top in-state students, University of Tennessee leadership traveled to students to give early applicants their acceptance letters.

West High School running back Devante Patrick will miss the remainder of the season after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee.

An18-year-old University of Tennessee student faces dozens of criminal charges related to breaking into vehicle in campus parkikng garages.

Police are searching for a woman who robbed a North Knoxville motel early Wednesday.

South Knoxville nonprofit East Tennessee Technology Access Center, which serves 24 counties, needs new battery-operated toys to adapt for children who can't play with typical toys, and also volunteers to help adapt them.

The nonprofit health clinic that serves the "working poor" is the recipient of Humana Foundation's three-year Humana Communities Benefit grant, edging out UTMC and Lincoln Memorial.

City Councilmen Finbarr Saunders, Marshall Stair and Mark Campen easily moved on to Nov. 4 and Knoxville Mayor won a second four-year term.

The Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee is going to ask the Department of Energy to turn over five buildings at a former unarnium enrichment site in a bid to boost the nonprofit's cash flow.

Negotiators for UT-Battelle, the Department of Energy's managing contractor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Atomic Trades Labor Council, which represents 13 unions and about 700 hourly workers at ORNL, today reached a tentative agreement on a new five-year contract.