The Great Smoky Mountains National Park has received approximately $11 million in funding from the Great American Outdoors Act Legacy Restoration Fund to rehabilitate a two-mile section of Newfound Gap Road near Gatlinburg. That...
The wildfire in Hartford continues to burn. The recent rain did have a little impact on that fire which is now 65 acres. It is still at 20% containment, but the forest service says...
The Cocke County Sheriff’s Department is searching for an escaped inmate this morning. Steven DeWayne Jones, who was arrested recently for DUI and simple possession, escaped from the Cocke County Detention Center at appriximately...
The Tennessee state veterinarian has issued a movement restriction on dairy cattle coming to Tennessee. This is in response to the USDA confirmation of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI)…or bird flu…being found in dairy...
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s office is investigating a fatal shooting that happened Tuesday in the Strawberry Plains area. Deputies were called to a camper trailer on Thorngrove Pike where they found two people with...
The Cocke County Sheriff’s office is investigating the death of a woman found in a home on Battle Road Tuesday night. The death has been ruled a homicide. According to a release from the...
One man was jailed Friday after he shot another man during an argument. According to a witness, stated that 19 year old Christopher Inman and 63 year old Ronald Douglas got into an argument...
Two people from Hamblen County have been charged in the death of a Sevier County man earlier this year. The Sevier County Sheriff’s office says that the two individuals have been indicted for the...
Kellie Harper is out of a job…this after she was let go by the University of Tennessee on Monday. Harper led the Lady Vols this year to a 20-13 overall record and a 10-6...
Tennessee State Senator Steve Southerland is currently hospitalized in Nashville. Southerland suffered a medical emergency on the floor of the senate chambers on Monday afternoon. He was rushed out of the senate chambers and...