Tennessee's Chickamauga Lake in the past two decades has risen from bass fishing doldrums to one of the leading fishing destinations in the U.S. as the genetic…
The City Council in Athens, Tennessee, narrowly approved a measure Tuesday allowing council members and the city manager to go armed in City Hall and at meetin…
A Marion County woman and Sequatchie County man are due for a court appearance Wednesday on multiple counts of child rape stemming from alleged abuse that happ…
The chairman of a state law enforcement training commission that identified and reviewed numerous problems at the Grundy County Sheriff's Office in July told t…
Police in Cleveland, Tennessee, have charged a 9-year-old with making violent threats Wednesday night by email to Cleveland City Schools, leading to the closur…
Cleveland City Schools in Bradley County, Tennessee, canceled classes Thursday after receiving emails overnight at multiple schools that could be interpreted a…
Polk County Circuit Court Clerk Melissa Keith was cleared of criminal wrongdoing after a grand jury decided not to issue an indictment in a case stemming from …
A Cleveland, Tennessee, man was sentenced Wednesday to 6.5 years in federal prison on eight felony counts for pushing against barricades and hurling a flagpole…
State auditors found seven Polk County Circuit Court Clerk's Office employees, at the clerk's direction, were paid more than $123,000 for time they didn't work…
By next month, the Bradley County Sheriff's Office must respond to a state report that identified 13 operational deficiencies at its jail, including a primary …
It's time to start planning a trip to take in fall's colors in a display that could really pop if the weather continues to cooperate.
A Cleveland, Tennessee, man convicted in May of pushing through barricades and hurling a flagpole at police at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, could get more…
Singer-songwriter John Hiatt has canceled the remainder of his 2023 tour after a fall while hiking in South Cumberland State Park in Grundy County, Tennessee, …
A Bradley County Fire-Rescue battalion commander is free on bond after a grand jury indicted him on sexual battery charges, according to court and jail records.
A Bradley County, Tennessee, man will serve almost two decades in state prison after entering a guilty plea Tuesday to a reduced charge of second-degree murder…
Nearly 100 acres on the Southern Cumberland Plateau in Franklin County, Tennessee, will officially become home next month to the Paint Rock River National Wild…
Construction crews will be performing concrete repairs over the next several weekends — including this weekend — on Interstate 24 near the U.S. Highway 27 inte…
A McMinn County Circuit Court judge has ordered sanctions against an Athens City Council member and his attorney after calling their 2022 ouster petition seeki…
A man who complained that city officials retaliated against him when he painted a downtown Athens, Tennessee, building with a screed against them has lost his …
Authorities in Bradley County are seeking the suspect in a road rage incident on Interstate 75 who appears to aim a gun at two big-rig drivers in a video of th…
The sheriff in Grundy County, Tennessee, apologized Friday to members of a state law enforcement training commission, reported the outcome of an internal inves…
Ransomware discovered in school system computer networks in Cleveland, Tennessee, has affected some devices though most equipment on the system is working as o…
The body of an 80-year-old Estill Springs, Tennessee, man was pulled from Tims Ford Lake after he apparently went under the water while taking his personal wat…
Athens, Tennessee's first Black mayor and former city council member whose tenure spanned more than three decades died in his hometown where he was first elect…
A district attorney's review of a Jasper, Tennessee, police officer's actions during an Aug. 5 traffic stop found the use of force was lawful and within Police…
A former teacher's aide with the Franklin County School District is free on a $50,000 bond after being arrested on multiple charges of sexual misconduct and co…
The trial for the McMinn County, Tennessee, woman facing more than 40 counts of having sex with 18 teen boys, set for Tuesday, has been delayed and a new date …
If you've been looking but just haven't been able to find the right jail to buy, a cool $300,000 could get you into an 1851-era little fixer-upper in Pikeville…
A Grundy County, Tennessee, man wrongfully convicted in 2007 of a murder he didn't commit and since released from prison and exonerated by the governor has now…
The bright blue roof of the Cookie Jar Cafe in Dunlap, Tennessee — seen for years gleaming like a gem in the Sequatchie Valley — is now a shiny silver as rebui…
The mayor and vice mayor of Athens, Tennessee, didn't violate city ethics policies when they called on the McMinn County Library board to remove an LGBTQ+ Prid…
Traffic has been turned loose on the last piece of the $32 million Interstate 24-South Broad Street improvement project on Chattanooga's Southside as the newly…
A state police training commission report accuses the Grundy County Sheriff's Office of employing uncertified deputies — including one assigned as a resource o…
A fire chief and assistant fire chief have been appointed by officials in New Hope, Tennessee, to replace the town's firefighters after the majority of the dep…
Bids on the interchange modification project on Interstate 75 at Hamilton Place Boulevard has been delayed until fall, but the project, once started, will stil…
A Maryland company hired to dispose of treated sewage from Chattanooga's Moccasin Bend Wastewater Plant is suing, saying the company's efforts have been microm…
The U.S. Forest Service is investigating after vandalism was reported on a small island at Parksville Lake in Polk County, Tennessee, and officials at Lee Univ…
Neighboring volunteer fire departments in Marion County, Tennessee, will provide services to the town of New Hope after most of the town's firefighters resigne…
Arriving in a small convoy of pickup trucks, six of the New Hope Volunteer Fire Department's eight volunteer firefighters unlocked the door to their fire hall …
Former 10th Judicial District Attorney Jerry Estes will assume the post vacated Friday by DA Stephen Crump, who began his new job Monday as executive director …
Despite rising gun seizures at many airports across the state and U.S., local seizures of firearms from carry-on bags at the Chattanooga Airport at the six-mon…
Like dark omens, electronic and new steel signs sit on Chattanooga's North Terrace and South Terrace, foretelling the coming closure and detours in the replace…
More play is on the way in Dayton, Tennessee.
The owners of an iconic Dunlap, Tennessee, eatery heavily damaged by fire in June have announced plans to rebuild with hopes of reopening by the end of the yea…
The pending August closure of Shaw Industries' facility in Decatur, Tennessee, poses a significant impact on the Meigs County seat's plans for a new $16-18 mil…
A Bledsoe County, Tennessee, man is behind bars on a $1 million bond after being charged in the slaying of a woman in neighboring White County, according to th…
State investigators are probing the death of an inmate at the Bradley County Jail after he was found unresponsive by correctional officers, according to a stat…
The 110 acres of family farmland in New Hope, Tennessee, eyed by a high-end recreational vehicle resort park developer earlier this year for a $30 million, 250…
As Tennessee boating fatalities in 2023 keep pace with 2022 at 14 to date, state officials are gearing up for Operation Dry Water, a nationwide campaign pushin…
Shaw Industries will close its Decatur, Tennessee, plant by the end of August, idling 336 jobs as residential carpet manufacturing operations are moved to Nort…
