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Knoxville City Council expands police surveillance weeks after ...
Jan 9, 2025 · Concerns over privacy and government overreach dominated the conversation in Knoxville on Tuesday as the city council approved a $27.6 million expansion of its police surveillance contract.
Extent of Helene devastation in northeast Tennessee comes into …
Oct 2, 2024 · Environment; Extent of Helene devastation in northeast Tennessee comes into clearer focus Death toll rises to eight; 46 people unaccounted for, and officials say it will take months – and hundreds of millions of dollars – before roads and bridges are rebuilt
Tennessee, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers forces CSX to halt …
Dec 10, 2024 · The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Tennessee environmental regulators have ordered CSX Transportation to stop dredging the Nolichucky River Gorge for rocks and sediment being used to shore up a rail line washed away by Tropical Storm Helene.
DCS seeks $189M in new funding with plans to target rural …
Nov 7, 2024 · Fifteen Tennessee counties account for half of all kids in the foster care system, a data point that is prompting child welfare officials to seek $6 million in state funding in order to geographically target intensive in-home services to keep kids with their families.
West Tennessee is growing, but counties surrounding BlueOval …
Jan 7, 2025 · West Tennessee may be on track to add more than 176,000 people to its population in the 25 years following Ford and SK’s BlueOval City announcement in 2021, but several counties nearest to the new manufacturing plant have yet to see their resident counts balloon.. The massive electric vehicle and battery manufacturing campus sits in Stanton, a small Haywood County town near the borders of ...
What to know: The new Ford BlueOval City plant poised to …
Sep 13, 2024 · The closure of a community center about two miles down the road from the new plant further inflamed the Mason community in August. Fayette County Mayor Rhea “Skip” Taylor said he temporarily closed the center’s doors and the Fayette County Commission changed the rules to prohibit private events (which were historically allowed) because of county property use and sale concerns.
Judge temporarily blocks new Tennessee rules that would have …
Dec 23, 2024 · This story has been updated with comment from the Department of Agriculture received after publication. A Nashville judge has temporarily blocked new state product testing rules, scheduled to take effect this week, that would have banned the sale of popular hemp products legally sold in Tennessee since 2019.
Tennessee hemp industry makes last-minute legal bid to halt rules ...
Dec 12, 2024 · Rather, new legislation designed to impose first-time regulations on Tennessee’s five-year-old hemp industry – such as license requirements, taxes and age restrictions – have been interpreted by the Tennessee Department of Agriculture in a way that would render certain hemp products illegal.
‘Literally heartbreaking as a librarian’ 150 titles pulled from ...
Nov 25, 2024 · Education ‘Literally heartbreaking as a librarian’ 150 titles pulled from Rutherford County school libraries Public school officials have asked Tenn. attorney general’s office for guidance on how to implement new school book law, calling it vaguely worded
Tennessee food aid delays could continue for two more months, …
Jan 25, 2024 · Anita Wadhwani is a senior reporter for the Tennessee Lookout. The Tennessee AP Broadcasters and Media (TAPME) named her Journalist of the Year in 2019 as well as giving her the Malcolm Law Award for Investigative Journalism.