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B The Hamblen County Garden Club will host its first project of the year Thursday at Rose Center by redoing its herb garden. The club is calling it its first Dig Day and the group will be cleaning out all…

F Average gasoline prices in Tennessee have risen 7.5 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.38/g today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 3,821 stations in Tennessee. Prices in Tennessee are 28.3 cents per gallon higher than a month…

I-40 paving underway in Jefferson County Motorists traveling on I-40 in Jefferson County should be aware of road construction activities that will have an effect on traffic. The work began Sunday, with lane closures on I-40 between Mile Marker 409.8…

F This month, the Tennessee Department of Education is promoting the annual Tennessee Comprehensive Assessments Program (TCAP), which is being administered to students in grades 3-8 from April 17 – May 5, to ensure students can show what they know…

F Soaky Mountain Waterpark officials today announced its 50-acre waterpark, located at 175 Gists Creek Road, will officially open for the 2023 season on May 13 and 14, and then daily starting May 20. A season pass holder celebration is…

NASHVILLE (AP) — It’s almost 4 p.m. at the Nashville branch of the Tennessee College of Applied Technology, and the students in the auto collision repair night class are just starting their school day. One is sanding the seal off…

A Apollo 13 astronauts Fred W. Haise, James A. Lovell and John L. Swigert, left to right, leave a helicopter to step aboard carrier Iwo Jima in the Pacific ocean after their successful recovery on Friday, April 17, 1970.

Midnight Elevation 1058.18 Cherokee was built to generate hydroelectric power during the World War II emergency, but it also plays an important role as one of the chains of TVA-managed reservoirs that have prevented billions of dollars in flood damage…

Hi 72 Lo 43 Day: Periods of sunshine with a couple of showers and a thunderstorm; breezy this afternoon Night: Mostly cloudy overnight

Midnight Elevation 982.90 Work on Douglas Dam began in February 1942 and was completed on a crash schedule in just 12 months and 17 days—a world record for projects of equivalent size. It is a hydroelectric facility with four generating…