KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Southeastern Conference has released the 2025-26 men’s basketball schedule. Tennessee will play 18 conference games between January 3, 2026 and March 7, 2026. Ten conference matchups will be played on Saturdays with the others taking place midweek.

Tennessee basketball has a hectic January schedule in SEC play with matchups against defending national champion Florida, Auburn, Kentucky and Alabama

Austin Robert Drummond was arrested Tuesday morning in the woods in Jackson after residents saw him. The 28-year-old is a convicted felon with alleged ties to a violent street gang who was out on bail on an attempted murder charge and dating one victim’s sister, officials have said.

Though the week long Tennessee manhunt for Austin Drummond has ended on Aug. 5, law enforcement continues to search for others charged with murder.

Police say the man facing charges that he killed the parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found left in a western Tennessee yard last week has been arrested

Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee is running for state Governor in a bid to turn her home state into America’s “conservative leader.” The lawmaker’s announceme

Republican U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn has announced that she is entering the open Tennessee governor’s race in 2026.

Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn announced a bid for Tennessee governor on Wednesday, pledging to make the state "America's conservative leader for this generation and the next."

After the execution of Byron Black on Aug. 5, witnesses are slated to speak at a news conference outside the prison.

Black was a man of undisputed intellectual disability, with multiple mental and physical health problems, who faced the potential for a torturous death due to an implanted heart device.

AP journalist Jonathan Mattise explains what made the execution of Byron Black in Tennessee different from other lethal injection executions. (AP video/Kristin M. Hall)

Nashville, Tenn. — Tennessee executed an inmate Tuesday without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, despite uncertainty about whether the device would shock his heart when the lethal chemicals took effect.

Byron Black was put to death despite uncertainty about whether the device would shock his heart when the lethal chemicals took effect.