Knoxville TN

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Violent crime is down in Knoxville; this is the big picture takeaway from the Knoxville Police Department’s preliminary 2025 priority crime report. However, while violent crime dropped across the board, there were increases in a couple of different areas, including a 2% rise in aggravated...

Longtime anchor Abby Ham is leaving WBIR. Ham announced her decision on air Jan. 6. Ham, 45, said she's walking away from the morning anchor job because she simply needs a change. "This is such a special place, and this decision does not come lightly," Ham said. Ham spent two decades anchoring the news for Knoxville,...

It comes just days after KCSO Chief Deputy Bernie Lyon, who was also running for sheriff, was laid to rest.

The Knoxville Police Department released its preliminary priority crime report for 2025, showing that murders and non-fatal shootings were down, but assaults were up.

Two Tennessee companies have received more than $1 billion from the federal government to support uranium enrichment within the United States.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A man is facing multiple charges including evading arrest and assault on a law enforcement officer after a report of an armed robbery in downtown Knoxville. Austin Rehagen, 27, faces multiple charges including aggravated robbery, assault on a law enforcement officer, evading arrest,...

(UPDATE) — Millard Dameron, 82, has been located in Grainger County and is safe after the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation issued a Silver Alert Monday afternoon. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has issued a Silver Alert 82-year-old for Millard Dameron on behalf of the Clinton Police...

The Oak Ridge Jane Doe hauntingly known only as the Lady in the Lake. Her nude body was discovered floating in Melton Hill Lake on March 6th, 2000. Investigators say that her last meal came from the Iron Skillet on Watt Road and that she was deceased for up to two weeks before she was found, but they still do not...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - WVLT Morning Anchor Will Puckett is expecting his first child! He made the announcement on WVLT Wednesday morning. Will joined the WVLT team in 2020, marking a jump in his professional life after spending more than three years at WVLT’s sister station WYMT Mountain News in Hazard, Kentucky....

GREENBACK, TN (FOX Carolina) - The United States Geological Survey is reporting an earthquake near the Tennessee-North Carolina border region. Officials said the 2.0 magnitude earthquake hit at 5:41 p.m. on Tuesday with a depth of 24 kilometers. According to the agency, the earthquake was 13.4 miles southeast of...