Steal This Foodservice Idea: Start a new food concept
Pilot eats and Pilot eats Express are two new food concepts from Knoxville, Tennessee-based Pilot Co. The concepts are beginning to roll out this month, and Pilot hopes they add more consistency across locations in how its food looks, feels and travels. Pilot eats will expand availability of the convenience-store...
Oak Ridge officer challenges suspension over crisis training, K-9 incidents
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — An Oak Ridge K-9 officer is pushing back after being suspended following two separate incidents in late 2025. Officer Joshua Banuelos received a 36-hour unpaid suspension and was removed from K-9 handler duties for a month after being accused of disrespectful behavior during a crisis intervention...
Touring Oak Ridge’s future nuclear energy hub: TVA and Kairos Power
Carolyn Krause is exploring what’s happening in Oak Ridge. She has read that new companies are investing in building facilities on Oak Ridge land partly for creating tomorrow’s nuclear reactors and making the special fuels they need to power future data centers for advancing artificial intelligence. The companies...
Pianist Keith Brown returns to Knoxville, for a show celebrating his family’s musical legacy
Hi, welcome back to On Keys with your host, Margherita Fava. Today, we are airing a conversation with a pianist that means a lot to the city of Knoxville, since that's where he grew up and got his start. The song you just heard 512 Arkansas Street was an original of his from his latest album African Ripples. Find out...
Oak Ridge Senior Center crowns chili cook-off winners
The Oak Ridge Senior Center held its annual chili cook-off Feb. 23 with more than 100 seniors in attendance. Tonya Sharp of The Home Option won first place; Mindy McNabb and Nikole Thornton of The Glen in Oak Ridge took second; and County Court Clerk Rex Lynch took third. The Senior Center wishes to thank all the...
Bassmaster Classic to bring anglers from around the U.S. and beyond to Knoxville this...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - The Bassmaster Classic is set to take place on the Tennessee River this weekend, drawing professional anglers from across the country — and beyond. Knoxville native Robert Gee is among the competitors. Gee qualified for Bassmaster right after graduating from the University of Tennessee and...
Knoxville Vet Gunned Down by Tennis Courts, Sister Still Waiting for Justice
Robin Ballard says she is “almost out of hope” more than three decades after her brother was murdered near the tennis courts at Cal Johnson Recreation Center in Knoxville in early September 1991. Dennis Ballard, a U.S. Army veteran, was 27 when he was found with a fatal gunshot wound to the head, and no one has ever...
Dispatches: Mills turns his eyes to Tennessee
Among the latest notes and quotes from Late Model action, primarily focused this weekend on the World of Outlaws Late Model Series weekend at Volunteer Speedway in Bulls Gap, Tenn., and Smoky Mountain Speedway in Maryville, Tenn.:. After his eye-grabbing rollover wreck last week that knocked him out of the...
Person in custody after shots fired in West Knoxville, officials say
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - A person is in custody after shots were fired in West Knoxville on Thursday, according to the Knox County Sheriff’s Office. It happened in the parking lot of the Dollar Tree on Cedar Bluff Road. KCSO said based on the preliminary report, shots were fired into a car, but no one was injured.
Knoxville mansion of reclusive Coca-Cola heiress opening to the public after decades empty
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The sprawling Knoxville home of a mysterious Coca-Cola heiress that was left vacant for decades will soon reopen to the public. The Eugenia Williams House will begin a two-week public sneak peek period this month before the official grand opening on April 11. The 19th-century English-style...
