Knoxville, TN (WOKI) Looking for signs of festival season? You’ll find two in downtown this weekend: the Market Street pedestrian zone reopens Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, and the Mardi Growl Parade is Saturday, March 1, 2025. The City installed new retractable bollards at the end of 2024 that make it easier and more cost efficient…… MORE
Union County, TN (WOKI) A former Union County Clerk’s Office employee is now facing more charges following an investigation by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. The TBI’s case centers on 38-year-old Whitney Goins who investigators say was already facing theft charges for using other people’s credit cards, which she got while working at the office.…… MORE
(Story courtesy of WVLT News) Knoxville, TN (WVLT) The Tennessee Valley Authority and Sevier County Electric System are working together to provide more power for the growing community. TVA has created a project to make another substation and transmission lines to bring more power to the Waldens Creek and Wears Valley areas. Neighbors in the…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) A Knoxville man is facing an attempted first degree murder charge after he reportedly shot his girlfriend in the neck. According to charging documents, the shooting happened on Knolls View Drive Monday morning after Dustin Finchum and his girlfriend got into an argument, which escalated into a physical fight. The woman ended…… MORE
Tellico Village, TN (WOKI) The Loudon County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help finding fraud suspects they say bilked a Tellico Village home center out of more than $40,000 in building material. LCSO officials say the theft happened at Sloan’s Village Home Center in Tellico Village. They say the suspects used four different credit cards…… MORE
An investigation is underway by the Tennessee Highway Patrol in Cocke County following an accident involving a school bus. Fortunately, there were no injuries reported in yesterday afternoon’s (Tuesday) crash. According to the Cocke County Schools Assistant Director, a bus from Edgemont Elementary School was running its after school route when a woman driving a…… MORE
A woman taken to the hospital and an investigation is underway after a house fire in northwest Knoxville. Knoxville Fire Department Crews called to a fire in a bedroom in the 4200 block of Thornwood Drive last night (Tuesday) and found light smoke coming from the front of the home. Crews put the fire out…… MORE
A Knoxville man is facing several charges after what started as a road rage incident ended in a rollover crash on I-40, according to a police report obtained by WVLT News. Just before midnight on Feb. 23, a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper said he was on the scene of a traffic stop on I-40 East…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) A convicted felon with outstanding warrants in Indiana, now faces up to 12 years in prison following a one-day trial on charges in Knox County. The Knox County DA’s Office says 36-year-old Buddy Livesay was found guilty of unlawful possession of a weapon by a violent felon, evading arrest and criminal impersonation…… MORE
Knox County, TN (WOKI) – UPDATE 3:15 p.m.: A one-mile evacuation order for the area near the site of an earlier overturned propane truck which caught fire briefly on E. Emory Road has now been lifted. Officials with the Knox County Sheriff’s Office making that announcement as Rural Metro fire crews have righted the truck…… MORE
