The WordPlayers is ecstatic to produce Freaky Friday: The Musical on July 11 & 12 at 7:30 p.m. and July 12 & 13 at 2:30 p.m. at the historic Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay St. in Downtown Knoxville.

The Knoxville City Council meets Tuesday evening, and improvements to greenways, streetscapes and city streets will get some ...

CAK’s Speck watched his boys learn how to surf. By Steve Williams. Chad Speck, Christian Academy of Knoxville head football coach, took his family to Hawaii in this year’s TSS ...

By Focus Staff Most people in Knox County have no idea of a Tennessee law (HB 2279) that was passed in 2018 that allows cell phone companies to install a 40-foot tall cell tower with multiple cell ...

The new law created a Class B misdemeanor for criminal impersonation of a taxi or rideshare driver, and increases the penalty to a Class E felony if the impersonation occurs during the commission of a ...

After an $11 million total investment by the City and its partners, Augusta Quarry at Fort Dickerson Park will reopen to the public today (Wednesday, July 2). The most recent round of work had closed ...

I’m old school when it comes to schools and education and make no apologies for being so. Spending 30 years in the classroom as a teacher should allow me to at least voice an opinion on the school ...

Seek counsel as well; godly voices in our lives often serve as instruments of God’s direction. In the days ahead, whether for our families, our churches, our nation, or our souls, we must ask ...

Something special is happening in Rhea County in July to mark the 100th anniversary of a very important event there, a trial ...

If you find yourself sitting in a courtroom, you might hear a lawyer stand up and say, “Your Honor, we request the rule of sequestration.” That phrase probably doesn’t mean much to most people, but it ...

Yes, Iran has been conducting a shadow war against the US since 1979. From the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1979 to the drone attack that killed three servicemen in Jordan in 2023, Iran ...

Mears rolled into town in the spring of 1962, a few months past his 35th birthday, fresh off a national championship a year earlier at Wittenberg (Ohio) College. He brought a sackful of gimmicks and a ...