KNOXVILLE – Motorists traveling on Alcoa Highway (US 129/State Route 115) in Knox County should be aware of upcoming road construction activities that will have a temporary impact on traffic. Beginning on Monday, March 31, and continuing through Saturday, April 5, the contractor will perform rolling roadblocks on Alcoa Highway (US 129/State Route 115) between Woodson Drive and…… MORE
An investigation is underway after a fire at a business in North Knoxville. Crews with the Rural Metro Fire Department were on scene of a car fire at a repair shop garage Saturday night and found multiple vehicles on fire in various stages of repair. The garage is on Clinton Highway at the Anderson County…… MORE
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (courtesy of WVLT) – Former Tennessee football coach Jeremy Pruitt filed a lawsuit against the NCAA. The lawsuit claimed Pruitt was treated unfairly and the NCAA investigation lead to career-ending penalties. It also claimed the NCAA worked with the university to make him the scapegoat. “The NCAA conspired with the University of Tennessee…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) Knox County Air Quality Management officials have banned open burning until further notice. Rural Metro Fire Department taking to social media Thursday morning with the announcement say the ban comes as Knox County continues to experience dry and windy conditions. Those conditions have sparked a string of wildfires not just in Knox…… MORE
Pigeon Forge, TN (WOKI) The City of Pigeon Forge says its city manager of 44 years will soon be retiring. Earlene Teaster became Tennessee’s first female city manager when she was named to the position in 1980. She was first hired to be the city clerk in 1961. Pigeon Forge Mayor David Wear says Teaster’s…… MORE
The Grainger County Sheriff’s Office arrests two people after four pounds of meth was found during a drug bust in Bean Station. Officials with the sheriff’s office, Drug Task Force, Hawkins County Sheriff’s Office and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation executed a search warrant at a home on Rocky Summit Road on Friday. During the…… MORE
(Story courtesy of WVLT News) Nashville, TN (WVLT) East Tennessee native and former Gibbs High School student Kenny Chesney is set to enter the Country Music Hall of Fame. From Luttrell, Tennessee, Chesney has earned 16 platinum albums, more than 50 top-ten country hits and 23 No. 1 songs on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs Chart.…… MORE
SEVIER COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) – A crew from the Tennessee National Guard rescued a hiker in the Great Smoky Mountains Saturday. The state made the announcement Monday, saying guardsmen were called to rescue an injured hiker in a remote area in the park, near Ramsey Cascades, located east of Gatlinburg. The crew — Capt. Andrew…… MORE
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (Monday, March 24, 2025) – Dollywood Parks & Resorts are well represented in the list of the latest USA Today 10Best Readers’ Choice awards thanks to nine award nominations across all properties. A panel of experts and USA Today 10Best editors selected Dollywood and Dollywood’s Splash Country to receive multiple nominations, while Dollywood’s DreamMore…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI / WVLT) Thanks to the 313 Initiative, a law enforcement partnership aimed at stopping drug trafficking from Detroit into the Knoxville area, hundreds of pounds of drugs have been seized. That, according to the latest report out of District Attorney General Charme Allen’s Office which also cites nearly 500 Initiative-related arrests along…… MORE
