Veteran drowns in Tennessee's Percy Priest Lake over Memorial Day weekend
State wildlife officials said a man lost his life over the three-day Memorial Day weekend in an incident on Percy Priest Lake.
State wildlife officials said a man lost his life over the three-day Memorial Day weekend in an incident on Percy Priest Lake.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is investigating after two inmates at the Bradley County Justice Center were found unresponsive, according to authorities.
At nine, Tennessee's boating-related fatalities so far in 2023 are outpacing deaths in 2022. The end of National Safe Boating Week, May 20-26, coincided with t…
A 20-minute, $45,000 Fourth of July fireworks display for residents of Athens, Tennessee, was approved by a 4-0 vote, despite a pending lawsuit over the 2022 d…
Residents in Athens, Tennessee, will hear the city's plan Wednesday to hold a Fourth of July fireworks display after all.
The Cleveland, Tennessee, man convicted of pushing police barricades and throwing a flagpole like a spear toward officers defending the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6,…
A former Cleveland, Tennessee, day care worker who pleaded guilty in January to 27 counts of reckless endangerment stemming from a February 2022 fire at Little…
Could one of the South’s most legendary fishing destinations be threatened by whatever killed more than 300 catfish in Chickamauga Lake in early May?
The Tennessee Comptroller's Office said in a report that Marion County's former road superintendent used a county employee and county equipment to haul loads o…
The public and river stakeholders will have a voice in the future of the Ocoee Whitewater Center in the Cherokee National Forest, where an administration build…
A Marion County Sheriff's deputy charged in December with drunk driving, evading arrest, running other deputies off the road and crashing into a guardrail in M…
South Cumberland State Park won its category for the second straight year, and Hiwassee-Ocoee Scenic River State Park notched a second-place finish in its cate…
Work has begun on a major change for drivers on Highways 58 and 68 in North Meigs County, where the Tennessee Department of Transportation plans to turn the fo…
Lawyers for the family of former Rhea County Executive George Thacker, who federal officials said died in a South Carolina federal prison in December from COVI…
Officials from the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency are probing the mysterious death of about 300 channel catfish along 32 miles of shoreline in the Chickam…
The Cleveland, Tennessee, man in a Capitol breach bench trial in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., was convicted Wednesday on 10 counts in an 11-count i…
The Cleveland, Tennessee, man on trial for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol spent hours on the stand in his own defense Tuesday and tes…
Police officers who found themselves on the other side of a police line from Joseph Lino "Jose" Padilla on Jan. 6, 2021, took the witness stand in his trial Mo…
The Cleveland, Tennessee, man charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol by a mob of angry supporters of former President Donald Trump trying to b…
Authorities in Sequatchie County, Tennessee, have formed a task force comprised of local, state and federal investigators to focus on the 2018 missing person c…
Authorities in McMinn County, Tennessee, are looking for whoever stabbed a woman found lying in the road on the southern end of the county, who is recovering f…
Bradley County authorities are looking for a 32-year-old Cleveland, Tennessee, man missing since March 30.
The developer proposing a 250-400 space recreational vehicle resort in New Hope played to a tough crowd Monday night as he presented early details on a possibl…
The shooter in a deadly road rage incident on Interstate 24 in August 2022 will not face charges after the District Attorney General's Office in Marion County,…
South Pittsburg High School's new pedestrian bridge was delivered and installed this week, two years after a truck collided with the old bridge, causing damage…
Developers proposing a $30 million RV resort with 250 to 400 spaces on the Tennessee River and the family that has owned the land since 1970 contend the projec…
The homicide case against a Rhea County man accused in the Feb. 24 shooting death of Roy Hickman Jr. has been sent to the Rhea County grand jury for considerat…
The environmental group Tennessee Riverkeeper is part of a coalition challenging a Jan. 31 decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency not to update i…
A possible 400-space RV park on the Tennessee River in Marion County has sparked a petition in opposition in the town of New Hope, Tennessee, where fewer than …
Cleveland Utilities customers will soon get access to a $72 million publicly-owned, high-speed broadband internet network following a 5-2 vote by the City Coun…
A pair of brothers in Marion County, Tennessee, has filed a complaint in Chancery Court demanding the town of New Hope remove its facilities from less than a h…
The city of South Pittsburg, Tenn., has received $3.45 million in two loans for water infrastructure improvements.
A man is dead and two others are jailed after an altercation between four men ended in deadly gunfire at a home near Jasper, Tennessee, according to authoritie…
Cleveland City Schools board members Monday approved new school start times and hiked bus driver pay in response to an ongoing driver shortage and a survey sen…
For the third consecutive year, lovers of Tennessee State Parks can cast a vote for their favorite park for a dollar per vote in the state's annual My TN State…
A new ramp has been opened in the Tennessee Department of Transportation's $32 million Interstate 24-South Broad Street interchange improvement project to link…
An investigation by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Army criminal investigators has resulted in a Fort Campbell soldier facing exploitation char…
The Rhea County Sheriff's Office is seeking any information on the whereabouts of a 15-year-old Rhea County girl last seen the morning of March 24.
Tenth Judicial District Attorney General Stephen Crump will step down in July for a job as executive director of the Tennessee District Attorney Generals Confe…
One day next year, the moon will pass directly between the Earth and its sun, casting the shadow of a total solar eclipse across 12 U.S. states.
The civil rights lawsuit filed by Adam Braseel, who was convicted in Grundy County in a 2006 murder he didn't commit, has an April 2024 trial date in U.S. Dist…
The Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury issued 14 findings in its fiscal year 2022 audit of Polk County — the most of any of the 95 counties in Tennessee thi…
Bradley County authorities are seeking two suspects in an early-morning shooting on Lois Street that left a man there with injuries requiring him to be airlift…
A Bradley County father was charged Monday in the drowning death of his 2-year-old son in a Sept. 25 incident on Burnt Ridge Drive in Charleston, Tennessee.
Authorities in Etowah, Tennessee, are investigating a house fire Monday in the 300 block of Louisiana Avenue that claimed two lives, according to the Etowah Fi…
A Madison, Wisconsin-based communications company has started installing up to 1-gigabit symmetrical internet service in the town of Englewood in McMinn County…
A shortage of bus drivers prompted Cleveland City Schools officials to consider changes to school start times for the upcoming academic year to improve the con…
The $9.8 million slide repair and bridge project started in 2020 on State Route 27, Suck Creek Road, is on track for an August finish and could be completed ea…
Visitors to Franklin State Forest in Franklin and Marion counties will only be allowed to enter on foot following a 120-day order barring off-road vehicles tha…
With the early spring warmup, black bears are beginning to emerge from dens to seek food, and that greatly increases the chance for humans and bears to come in…