Most of the first phase of grading operations and utility relocation within the Tennessee Department of Transportation's $54 million, 3-mile State Route 60 wid…
The now-$97.2 million third phase of the Apison Pike widening and realignment project launched more than two years ago in Collegedale is almost two-thirds comp…
A Collinsville, Alabama, man is being held on a $1 million bond in the death of his mother in DeKalb County following a three-day investigation by out-of-count…
A Franklin County man faces charges of filing a false report following a TBI investigation into a sexual assault allegation made against a lieutenant at the Be…
A federal lawsuit seeking no less than $1 million has been filed against McMinn County, Tennessee, its sheriff and a county deputy stemming from an alleged war…
Three Rhea County child abuse suspects are being held on a total of $4 million in bonds in two separate investigations leading to felony indictments this week,…
Site work is underway at the $33.9 million, 98,000-square-foot Jasper Middle School for 650-700 Marion County fifth through eighth graders as the contractor's …
Rainfall over the next few days will determine whether those puddles and flooded local streets are any indication the ongoing drought in Southeast Tennessee ha…
In the span of 10 days, Olivia Keller experienced the best and worst of life.
A Marion County deputy sergeant is on leave after being jailed Sunday for DUI and associated charges after running deputies off the road and crashing into a gu…
Marion County and South Pittsburg will receive $1 million of $1.7 million being distributed in Southeast Tennessee in state grants, officials announced Thursda…
A Meigs County, Tennessee, resident angry over the theft of more than $1 million from the county's 911 center plans to ask the center's board to resign in full…
Work on the long-awaited -- or dreaded -- second phase of the Interstate-24/Interstate 75 "split" project is set to begin in late spring 2023 now that the Tenn…
The Grundy County man wrongly convicted of a 2006 murder he didn't commit and freed after serving 13 years in a Tennessee prison filed a federal lawsuit Wednes…
Two Tracy City, Tennessee, residents have been charged on grand jury indictments in the Oct. 18 nonfatal shooting of a 9-year-old boy by another boy, also 9, b…
Two of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation's 10 Places in Peril for 2023 are in Northwest Georgia near the Tennessee state line.
Sandwiched between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Small Business Saturday is the day people are urged to shop local, and keeping money close to home can make a…
For the Terry family in Whitwell, Thanksgiving 2022 was bittersweet, a reunion drawing members together in loss as they bring the latest chapter of the "Lady o…
State road construction projects in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama will be halted for the Thanksgiving travel holiday as AAA predicts 54.6 million people will …
The investigation of a man found shot Sunday when Franklin County Sheriff's deputies reached a burglary-in-progress call has become a death probe after he died…
Federal Historic Preservation Fund grants of $25,000 apiece will help pay for preservation work at two area churches on the National Register of Historic Place…
Two incoming City Council members elected Nov. 8 became the mayor and vice mayor of Athens, Tennessee, on Tuesday night, and in their first official meeting, t…
After the mayor and vice mayor of Athens, Tennessee, were voted out of office last week, the town's city manager resigned Monday.
A produce driver making a delivery to Sewanee Elementary School was busted by a Franklin County, Tennessee, school resource officer after he smelled what he be…
Tennessee is at 27 boating fatalities for 2022 and closing in on 26-year highs of 31 tallied in 1996, 2004 and 2020, according to the Tennessee Wildlife Resour…
Home to indigenous cultures for thousands of years, three of the seven sites in Tennessee that tell the story of Native Americans are in the Chattanooga area, …
If the U.S. Board on Geographic Names approves a proposal to change what is now named Clingmans Dome to its Cherokee name, Kuwohi, one of the effects below the…
A Cleveland, Tennessee, man partnered with conservation groups to conserve 620 acres of Cumberland Plateau forest in Franklin County where it will add to work …
Despite Thursday night and Friday's deluge across the Tennessee Valley, the rain from tropical depression Nicole might not bust the drought gripping Southeast …
A nine-way race on Tuesday's ballot in Athens, Tennessee, for three open seats on the City Council ended with the town's mayor and vice mayor defeated as voter…
A cultural celebration is planned for Saturday and Sunday at Red Clay State Historic Park in southern Bradley County, Tennessee, the site where Cherokee leader…
Former Whitwell, Tennessee, resident Ruth Marie Terry is nearly as much a mystery to most folks in her home county as she was as an unidentified Jane Doe in a …
The Athens Area Chamber of Commerce has announced its 2023 annual banquet speaker as former Atlanta Braves legend Chipper Jones, continuing a string of high-pr…
Election commissions in all 95 Tennessee counties have been sent at least one public records request related to the 2020 presidential election, according to a …
A $9 million project to repair extensive landslide damage on Suck Creek Road, triggered by heavy rain the weekend of the Easter 2020 tornado outbreak, is still…
Southeast Tennessee is in a moderate to severe drought.
At 7 feet, 6 1/2 inches tall, Tall Betsy -- the local-folklore-based creation of Cleveland, Tennessee's millionaire payday lending czar Allan Jones -- is a lar…
The police chief in Tracy City, Tennessee, confirmed authorities are investigating the Sunday shooting of a boy who remains in a Chattanooga hospital after und…
A May 1, 2023, trial date has been set for the Cleveland, Tennessee, man charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach at the U.S. Capitol following a hearing Monday in …
A combined reward of up to $15,000 is being offered for information related to a suspicious April 8 fire that damaged historic Christ Church Episcopal in Tracy…
A $14.6 million federal grant for infrastructure improvements could change the face of the south end of Dunlap, Tennessee, but many details will arise from pub…
The now-deceased, longtime director of Meigs County's Emergency Communications District misappropriated more than $1 million over an almost 10-year period, acc…
A trial date has been set for the McMinn County, Tennessee, woman charged in early 2022 with having sexual contact with at least 18 teenage boys that resulted …
Monday morning, Chattanooga commuters heading into town on eastbound Interstate 24 can start taking a gleaming new off-ramp to South Broad Street to access the…
A relatively dry September and — so far — rainless October with only a chance of precipitation in sight could rouse memories of the drought of 2016, when wildf…
Most of East Tennessee can expect a spectacular fall leaf season thanks to recent cool nights and bright, sunny days, according to the Tennessee Climatology Of…
Just before his trial was to start Monday in Kingston, Tennessee, a former accountant with Volunteer Energy Cooperative entered a guilty plea to a charge of th…
New information in a Marion County missing person investigation indicates the subject of the probe, Stacy Annette Crawford, vanished almost three weeks earlier…
The ramp from eastbound Interstate 24 to South Broad Street on the Southside in downtown Chattanooga was set to open by August, but problems getting materials …
Chattanooga's Brainerd Mission School, opened in 1817, was one of the first of more than 408 federally-funded mission schools across the U.S. that boarded Nati…