Knoxville TN

JACKSBORO, TN (WLAF)- The Jacksboro Fall Festival committee couldn’t have asked for a better day Saturday, sunny blue skies and prefect temperatures. See the full photo gallery HERE from Saturday’s fest. The third annual festival on Main Street stretched from Liberty Street past the courthouse square to Paris...

Hidden in plain sight along a Knoxville roadway sits The Diner at Twisters Shakes & Sundaes – an unassuming treasure where locals line up for what might be the most surprisingly delicious cheeseburgers in the Volunteer State. You’ve driven past places like this a thousand times – modest exteriors...

Tourism is Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg’s bread and butter—the biggest driver of tax revenue with more than 11 million visitors yearly on average. Over the weekend, it was a rare instance where they told them to get out. Sevierville city and law enforcement ordered the Slammedenuf car festival...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Zoo Knoxville announced the names of its two male red panda cubs on Monday. Their names are Dr. Wallace and Mr. Darcy. Dr. Wallace is named in honor of Dr. Steven Wallace, a professor at East Tennessee State University and curator of the Gray Fossil Site and Museum. Wallace serves as the site...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Knoxville Fire Department extinguished a small fire at a Knoxville bedding store Monday morning. Around 4:40 a.m., crews responded to an alarm at Brothers Bedding on North Broadway, KFD said. When they arrived, they found a small fire near a window on the second floor. The sprinkler...

Engines roared, tires smoked, and by midnight, the Parkway looked less like a tourist strip and more like a racetrack. Car fans from across the region poured into downtown Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, for a chaotic gathering that was part low-key show, part street takeover, forcing multiple law enforcement agencies to...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A 29-year-old woman was arrested Friday evening after witnesses saw her punch a child in the face in a South Knoxville parking lot and called police. Loren Whaley, 29, is charged with felony child abuse. According to a warrant for Whaley's arrest, Knoxville police were called...

At an orientation dinner for a Knoxville summer program for aspiring finance students, two sets of parents meet before saying goodbye to their children for a week. They discuss the project that Lausanne Collegiate School student Christian Love (11) is working on. After dinner, Tre Suggs (11) learns of the website...

PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. — People and police officers continued to gather around the Jimmy's Market on Great Smoky Mountains Parkway in Pigeon Forge throughout Sunday. The people wanted to see the spot where a large crowd seemingly refused to leave after, according to Richard Catlett, the police chief of Pigeon Forge, the...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - The National Kidney Foundation’s (NKF) annual Memphis Kidney Walk took place on Saturday, Oct. 4 in Sequoyah Hills Park. Over 140 people marched down Cherokee Boulevard to raise awareness and money for kidney disease. The NKF’s Kidney Walk is the nation’s largest walk to fight...