NPR and Member stations in Appalachia and the Mid-South have launched a collaboration aimed at strengthening local news coverage and bringing more stories from this region to the rest of the country.
A UT Knoxville student watched as fear and confusion spread at the White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual dinner.
A beloved Nashville steam locomotive will ride the rails for another generation
After chugging through a decadelong project, restoration of a steam locomotive that sat idle in Nashville’s Centennial Park for more than 60 years is nearing completion.
At a popular Kentucky arboretum, one naturalist connects stargazing, science and conservation
Dan Price, a NASA solar system ambassador and volunteer naturalist at Bernheim Forest and Arboretum, discusses how dark skies connect astronomy, bird migration and the possibility of life beyond Earth.
Tennessee brings Trump’s immigration policy to the states. Here’s what’s new
The Tennessee General Assembly has passed nearly a dozen bills to aid the Trump administration’s mass deportations at the state level.
In Tennessee, you can’t kill to protect property. Now, lawmakers say you can.
In Tennessee, you’re allowed to protect against theft or trespassing on your property. A new proposal would allow deadly force to prevent a property crime.
Tennessee’s biodiverse Duck River wins protections against new landfills
The Duck River watershed will be protected from landfill development, marking a bipartisan conservation outcome.
Tennessee handed over voter data. Now the DOJ faces a lawsuit over its stockpile.
The Trump administration is being sued over its stockpiling confidential voter data.
Clarksville organization working to stop the loss of southern grasslands
Grassland habitats across the United States have been on a sharp decline over the past 30 years, with some researchers suggesting a loss of nearly 62% of historic native ecosystems. To combat this, a Clarksville organization is working to halt biodiversity loss.
Nearly 20 years after Kingston spill, the EPA says it wants to relax rules on coal ash
The EPA says it will roll back Biden-era rules regulating coal ash dump sites and relax regulations enacted in response to the massive coal ash spill at the Kingston Fossil Plant in East Tennessee.
Healthcare Hollow: Infections can be deadly in rural Tennessee; one county is trying to change that
In rural Hawkins County, Tennessee, a reliable hospital is 30 to 45 minutes away. That’s precious time without treatment for patients experiencing sepsis, a life-threatening medical emergency.
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