Measles are back. The disease that American medicine seemed to have conquered 15 years ago struck 644 Americans in 27 states last year, according to the federal Centers for Disease …
R.I.P. Arnold Schwarzbart
Arnold Schwarzbart died in Knoxville last week, at the age of 73, after a long illness. He was once best known here as a prominent modernist architect, the designer of …
KUB Gas Pipeline Construction for UT Cuts Down Pollution—and Lots of Trees
The University of Tennessee’s decision to switch its Knoxville power plant from coal to natural gas will roll back East Tennessee’s contribution to global climate change by slashing carbon-dioxide emissions. …
WDVX Co-Founder Tony Lawson Heads to Bristol for a New Start
When WDVX first went on the air, in 1997, nobody could have predicted what the station would become. It had taken six years for the founders of the public roots-music …
Introducing the Knoxville Mercury
The Knoxville Mercury is an independent weekly news magazine devoted to informing and connecting Knoxville’s many different communities. And it exists due to an outpouring of financial and personal support from Knoxvillians …