Morristown Wins Tree City Award
Everything is starting to bloom, trees are getting their leaves…and the city of Morristown wins another award. The City of Morristown has, for the 20th year, been awarded the Tree City Award from the...
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Feds Execute Search Warrant In Mosheim
A federal search warrant was executed in Mosheim in Greene County earlier this week. Officers and Agents from the Food & Drug Administration, along with the Mosheim Police Department, Greene County Sheriff’s Office, Tusculum...
Cocke Co. Still Has Highest Unemployment Rate
The loss of the ConAgra plant in Newport continues to be felt in the latest unemployment numbers. Individual county unemployment numbers for February were released on Thursday, and Cocke County is still not in...
April Is Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Tennessee’s historic state capitol will be silhouetted in blue-green lighting this weekend to raise awareness for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The teal lighting will be featured Friday, April 1 through Sunday, April 3, the...
Sevier County Wildfire Now Over 3700 Acres
The Hatcher Mountain wildfire in Sevier County has continued to grow in size. That fire is now at over 3700 acres burned. Well over 100 structures have been destroyed during this fire that began...
Jefferson Co. 2 Year Old Dies From Gunshot Wound
Last Wednesday, March 23rd, Jefferson County police were called to a home in Talbott where a 2 year old child shot himself in the face while playing with a loaded handgun. That child has...
Sevier County Wildfire Now 1,000 Acres
That wildfire in Sevier County has continued to grow at a rapid rate. To give you an idea of just how much it has grown…that fire had consumed 30 acres as of yesterday afternoon...
Legalized Marijuana Dead In TN For 2022
A bill that would have legalized recreational marijuana in the state is now dead for this legislative session. The bill’s sponsor, representative Bob Freeman a democrat from Nashville, pulled that bill from consideration on...
Thomas Divide Complex Wildfire 60% Contained
While the wildfire continues in the Cherokee National Forest in Cocke County, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park says the 960-acre Thomas Divide Complex Fire is now 60 percent contained over in North Carolina....
Foothills Parkway Closed Due To High Winds
March is about to go out like a lion. High winds are forecast for the area today as we will go under a wind advisory at 11am. That will be in effect until 6am...
