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TDOT crews have their hands full with projects across the region.

One Friday in the spring of 1971, 5-year-old train enthusiast Michael Meadows and his grandmother boarded the northbound train to Nashville at Chattanoogas Union Station. Meadows grandfather was a train man, The Chattanooga Times reported, and Michael Meadows hoped to follow suit. Chances looked dim.

Discover Tennessees coldest January temperature readings throughout history across different parts of the state.

Martin Luther King Jrs time spent at the Highlander Folk School led to FBI probe before he became a legend in the Civil Rights Movement.

Mariam Raad was greeted by a bunch of flowers from her children at a compound in Young, rural NSW, when she was released from custody after spending a night behind bars.

Let’s all remind ourselves that the other person may be right, and seek to find common ground and yes, compromise, when possible.

Six Southern-inflected podcasts, documentaries, and dramas to watch

In politics, the “Standing Vote” of the incumbent office holder makes it a hard row to hoe for challengers, especially in a state like Tennessee with no run-off system that

Hey Neighbors!

(MURFREESBORO)  Organizing people, even a few, to accomplish an important goal may seem overwhelming.  But the co-director of the historic Highlander Research and Education Center in East Tennessee, which has helped civil rights, workers’ rights and other groups nationwide gain social justice for nearly a century, says finding basic common ground is key. “I try to think about it as having the best kind of front-porch conversation...