MTSU broke ground on Womack Commons, a $56.5M, 554‑bed student housing and parking project aimed for summer 2027.

Hooky Nashville will open April 29 at Nashville Yards with a 50,000-square-foot dine-in cinema, bowling, arcade and event spaces.

A worker was pronounced dead after being pinned between a forklift and an excavator on the 3000 block of Ambrose Avenue in East Nashville. Investigators remained on scene Wednesday morning.

FBI Director Kash Patel and DEA Administrator Terrance Cole headlined the Rx and Illicit Drug Summit in Nashville to discuss synthetic‑opioid supply chains and federal coordination. Officials framed enforcement and public‑health work as linked responses to evolving drug threats.

A 2,000-gallon tanker of tack oil caught fire on Kraft Street in Clarksville on April 7; crews extinguished the blaze and the road reopened the same day.

Ten days after a downtown water main break, Capitol Towers residents remain without hot water or elevator access, leaving many elderly neighbors stranded. Repairs and code complaints are now in focus.

An early‑morning collision between two tractor‑trailers on I‑65 North left one driver dead and closed the highway near the Vietnam Veterans Parkway split.

A man who jumped from Victory Memorial Bridge into thick brush along the Cumberland River was rescued by Nashville firefighters and then arrested after a trespassing call.

Cool morning, fast warm-up to mid-70s today; weekend temps climb into the 80s.

A Nashville mother says pocket dials warned her before her son was found shot inside an Antioch apartment. Police arrested a 23-year-old and charged him with homicide.

SomeraRoad's sales gallery for Pendry Nashville has been selling the Gulch's built neighborhood as the tower's biggest draw since fall 2025.

The House finance committee advanced a revised voucher expansion to a 35,000 cap and removed a contentious immigration‑status reporting rule, shifting the fight to cost and prioritization.

Dogwood Arts fills April with trails, a downtown Chalk Walk (Apr 11), featured gardens (Apr 18 619) and a free festival (Apr 24 626) across Knoxville.