Pikeville News

A request for a zoning change to allow a Fairfield Inn by Marriott on Walnut Street next to the Walnut Street Bridge has been withdrawn.

A long debate over the state's budget Thursday afternoon appears to jeopardize chances that the General Assembly would be able to wrap up by Friday.

A budget amendment aimed at blocking Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's closing of Taft Youth Development Center temporarily threw the House into a tizzy Thursday.

First Volunteer Bank is participating in the American Bankers Association Foundation's annual "Teach Children to Save" educational program for elementary students.

PIKEVILLE, Tenn. -- A cloudless sky overhead, freshly turned soil beneath their orange flip-flops and Crocs, a dozen inmates at the Bledsoe County Detention Center pick clumps of grass and rocks from the dirt to ready the jail's first garden for planting.