After a six year project, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park held a ribbon cutting ceremony yesterday to reopen Parson Branch Road. The one-way, eight-mile road was closed in 2016 after crews documented more...
Good news regarding that Sevier County deputy who was injured in a car accident early Sunday morning. According to his wife, Deputy Jonathan Dodd is showing marked improvement and is currently undergoing speech and...
Unemployment numbers for Tennessee counties were released on Thursday and it has some good news for Cocke County. The county’s unemployment rate fell back below 5% in April to 4.8%. In March the unemployment...
Memorial Day Weekend traditionally is known as the start of the summer season, and is also the start of boating season in Tennessee. The weather is supposed to be pretty nice for the majority...
A Newport woman is now in jail after smuggling drugs into the Cocke County jail during an arrest. Deputies traveling eastbound on I-40 near the 436 mile marker on Tuesday afternoon observed an orange...
Two other individuals were also arrested after a traffic stop on I-40 in Cocke County on Tuesday. Deputies pulled over a vehicle eastbound on I-40 at exit 435 that was failing to maintain its...
Police were dispatched to Wholesale Furniture Outlet in the Five Rivers Plaza in Newport Tuesday morning. Andrew Gossard told officers that someone had broken into the business overnight and stolen money from the cash...
Newport police responded to a crash in front of the Cocke County courthouse Tuesday morning around 6:45. 17 year old Jacob Haney of Kodak told police he was traveling down eastbound on Broadway when...
A Hawkins County man is in jail after police found him selling marijuana out of his camper…with several children inside. Hawkins County deputies went to the camper parked along Highway 11W Wednesday morning to...
We are just now heading into the Memorial Day weekend, but plans are already underway for the fall. The Cocke County Partnership/Chamber of Commerce says they are now working on plans for the Newport...