After input from North Nashville residents, councilmembers are asking the city’s COVID-19 financial oversight committee to funnel $70 million toward minority businesses.
Three North Nashville councilmembers ask for $70M in covid relief for minority-owned businesses
A year after the bombing, the future of Second Avenue is tangled in construction delays despite some progress
Second Avenue between Church and Commerce streets is still a construction site.
‘I hope it’s made me stronger’: Second Avenue resident reflects on her year after the Christmas Day bombing
Last Christmas morning, before the sun rose, a giant ball of flame erupted from an RV parked on Nashville’s Second Avenue. Betsy Williams watched it from her car, having just evacuated from her home across the street.
The latest numbers on Tennessee’s storms: 23 tornadoes, 5 deaths
Five people died in the tornadoes on Dec. 10 and 11 in Tennessee, the state’s emergency management agency said Friday. That’s one more than the previous number of lives thought to be lost in the storms.
December tornadoes rank as Middle Tennessee’s fifth-largest outbreak. What we know, and don’t know, about future risks.
To create a tornado, you need to blend four ingredients. But we’d need to be able to look at the molecular level to see when the start button on the blender is being pushed.
The Omicron variant arrives in Nashville, but Delta is still the local COVID concern
A Nashville resident who recently returned from South Africa has been confirmed as the city’s first confirmed patient with the COVID Omicron variant. The Metro Public Health Department says the patient was vaccinated and boosted, and experienced mild symptoms.
Fatal shooting by Nashville police officer under investigation in Madison
The Metro Nashville Police Department has not yet released the identity of a man who was shot and killed by officers near a park in Madison. The shooting was the 10th by Nashville police in 2021, and the seventh to be fatal.
Vanderbilt gets the go-ahead to build a hospital in Murfreesboro, despite no current need for additional beds
The $144 million facility passed the Health Services and Development Agency on Wednesday by a vote of 5-1.
Some North Nashville residents can vote on which project should get $2M, but the rules are limiting some ideas
The city is trying to empower residents to create the rules and process for funding community projects in an area the city has historically neglected.
A top priority for Tennessee education leaders? Making sure students will be qualified for job openings
The issue of college and career readiness comes as state officials celebrate the historic year it’s been for job creation, pointing to the new investments with Ford and Oracle. But whether Tennessee’s young people will be qualified to fill those jobs loom over that achievement.
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