Tennessee law also sets the first Thursday in August as one of the default dates on which school board general elections can be held. School districts in Tennessee that hold school board general ...

With City of Knoxville elections held in odd-numbered years, voters will soon head to the polls to decide who will occupy ...

The Knox County Commission on June 23 overhauled decades of leadership at the troubled juvenile detention center.

The Knox County school board approved a restrictive policy on access to smart devices in schools, meaning students will only have access to phones, watches and tablets before and after school.

Knox County is growing, and so is the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Not only are an additional 75,000 people expected to live here by 2040, but the state's flagship campus is aiming to ...

Tennessee is one of three states in the country that require their county executives to be called "mayors." Here's when that practice began and why.

But a county mayor? That's not intuitive for people in most of America. County executives in Tennessee have been called mayors only since 2003, and most other states don't use the mayor title for the ...

It seems obvious the city of Knoxville would have a mayor, but Knox County has its own mayor as well. County executives in Tennessee have been called mayors since 2003. Tennessee is one of only three ...

Local News 30-year-old Mansfield man dead following Knox County crash Troopers were called on a report of a crash around 10:05 p.m. on state Route 3, north of Mount Vernon.

The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office signed an agreement this week that allows deputies to make immigration arrests on their streets. The county was already working on behalf of ICE in its jail.

KNOX CO., Ill. (KWQC) - The woman charged in the death of former, retired Maquon Police Chief Richard Young has been found guilty. Marcy Oglesby was found guilty of first-degree murder, attempted ...