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Margo Price makes her defiant return to Nashville on ‘Hard Headed Woman’

Stephen Kallao|Miguel Perez

July 25, 2025

The alt-country star’s upcoming album, out Aug. 29, is the first record that Price has made in Music City, her home for more than 20 years.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Nashville

Nashville’s home listings are outpacing closings, new report shows

Cynthia Abrams

June 30, 2025

East Nashville home construction

There are a lot of homes on the market around Nashville — but fewer people buying them. 

Filed Under: Business, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Bristol, clarksville, home sales, Housing, housing market, kingsport, Knoxville, memphis, Middle Tennessee State University, MTSU, multifamily permits, Nashville, Real Estate, Sullivan County

Tennessee Congressman Mark Green to leave office months after re-election

Marianna Bacallao

June 10, 2025

A special election will determine who represents Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District after Rep. Green retires.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Andy Ogles, clarksville, Donald Trump, Freddie O'Connell, Immigration, Mark Green, Megan Barry, Nashville, tnleg, tnpol

Students write letter to city leaders expressing fear amid recent ICE raids

Camellia Burris

May 12, 2025

Empty desks in a classroom

A group of students wrote an open letter to city leaders expressing fear in the wake of recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in South Nashville.

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: Adrienne Battle, Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, ICE, immigrants, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Metro Nashville Public Schools, MNPS, Nashville, raid, school

Downtown Presbyterian Church and the 100th Annual Waffle Shop

Mary Mancini

December 4, 2024

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With only four official floors, Downtown Presbyterian Church (Rep. John Lewis Way and Church St.) used to be one of the tallest buildings in Nashville. Now dwarfed by skyscrapers, her history is way bigger than her small stature.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: Downtown Presbyterian Church, Erin Bell, Jim Hoobler, Nashville, Tom Wills, Zach Sasser

In the face of inflation, Nashville tourism breaks records

Cynthia Abrams

May 31, 2024

New numbers indicate the city’s hospitality industry is growing, even as tourism is slowing down across much of the country.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Deanna Ivey, hotel development, Nashville, tourism

Ask not one, but two, mayors!

Mary Mancini

May 30, 2024

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Today, Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell and Franklin Mayor Ken Moore will be in the studio to talk about what they’re working on right now and to take calls from listeners.

Filed Under: Ask The Mayor, Election Live Blog 2024, Programs Tagged With: ask the mayor, Franklin, Freddie O'Connell, Ken Moore, Nashville

hubNashville launched 7 years ago. Here’s how Metro’s customer service system has evolved over time.

Cynthia Abrams

January 21, 2024

Sanitation workers load trash into a garbage truck in Nashville.
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Metro customer services hinges largely on hubNashville, a system where residents can place a huge range of requests. Its usage has tripled in the past five years.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: customer service, Freddie O'Connell, hubNashville, Mayor O'Connell, metro, Metro Government, Nashville

Nashville sued the state four times last year. Here’s where those lawsuits stand today.

Cynthia Abrams

January 4, 2024

The state approved at least seven preemption laws. The city filed lawsuits against four: an attempt to reduce the size of Metro Council by half, the undoing of a charter referendum pertaining to the fairgrounds racetrack demolition and overhauls of the Airport and Sports Authority boards.

Filed Under: Metro, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, Airport Authority, Bristol Motor Speedway, Fairgrounds racetrack, metro, Metro Government, Nashville, Preemption, Preemption bills, Sports Authority, state legislature, Tennessee

Deadly tornadoes cause damage across Middle Tennessee

Rachel Iacovone, Catherine Sweeney, Paige Pfleger, Rose Gilbert, Alexis MarshallandNina Cardona

December 9, 2023

Hendersonville, Tennessee storm damage

Deadly tornadoes tore through Middle Tennessee on Saturday, causing damage and power outages for thousands. As of Sunday afternoon, six people were confirmed dead. There were three deaths in Clarksville and three in the Madison area of Nashville. There were also dozens of injuries across the region.

Filed Under: Science, WPLN News Tagged With: clarksville, December 2023 tornadoes, Dickson County, Hendersonville, Nashville, Robertson County, severe weather, tornado

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