A renovation of downtown Knoxville's 100-year-old YWCA building means more women at risk of becoming homeless can live in remodeled accommodations that are bright, airy and inspiring. The project reworked the historic Nancy J. Land Building's floorplan to maximize its capacity, increasing the number of women it can host from 58 to 70, YWCA Knoxville and the Tennessee Valley CEO Natalie Stair told Knox News. Read more: bit.ly/4jGeq5R | Knoxville News Sentinel

Knoxville police shot and killed a man Jan. 28, the department announced. Officers were investigating an endangered child alert at the North Park Apartments on Tillery Road in northwest Knoxville when they entered an apartment and shots were fired. An adult man was struck by the gunfire and pronounced dead at the scene. No officers were injured and the child who was the subject of the alert was found and is safe. To read more about the fatal shooting, click the link below. https://www.knoxnews.c

Everyone knows Knoxville is a college sports town. What you may not know, though, is the professional sports fan community also runs deep in the Scruffy City from NFL teams, to Premier League soccer. We visited Ale' Rae's Gastropub, an official Steelers Nation bar during the Wild Card game (we won't talk about the outcome) to see the fandom in action. To read more about Knoxville's sports bar scene, click the link below. https://www.knoxnews.com/story/entertainment/dining/2026/02/02/knoxvilles-f

A downed tree crushed a Knoxville home on LeConte Lane on Sunday afternoon amid severe weather across East Tennessee. For more live weather coverage, click the link below. https://www.knoxnews.com/story/weather/2026/01/22/live-updates-knoxville-tennessee-winter-storm-snow/88291882007/ | Knoxville News Sentinel