Category Archives: Local News

Our Queen, Dolly Parton, says she does not want to become a hologram.During a press event for her upcoming album "Rockstar", she was asked about the idea of a digital hologram being used in her place ...

An investigation is underway following a deadly July 4th accident in South Knoxville.The Knox County Sheriff's Office responding to the 600 block of West Marine Road and the preliminary investigation ...

Deputy Chief of Professional Standards Brooklyn Sawyers BelkCourtesy (City of Knoxville)Knoxville, TN (WOKI) The woman behind some big changes within the Knoxville Police Department is stepping down f...

Chimpanzee Binti (Zoo Knoxville)Knoxville, TN (WOKI) Beloved by her chimpanzee family and human caretakers, a 38-year-old Chimpanzee at Zoo Knoxville has died.“We had to make the unfortunate dec...

U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), who led over 40 of her Senate Republican colleagues in an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, released the following statement on the court's decision."Ten...

The Knox County Sheriff's Office is on the scene of a shooting in the 7900 block of Strawberry Plains Pike.One person found in the 8000 block was injured and taken to an area hospital with what appear...

A homicide investigation is underway in Jefferson County.The sheriff’s office called to the 1700 block of Chestnut Hill Road in Dandridge near Douglas Lake.TBI agents and representatives from th...

A 10-year-old remains in critical but stable condition following an accidental shooting at a YWCA during a summer day camp which has reopened today.A 14-year-old boy is in custody charged with two cou...

There will be soon be tougher penalties for students who make mass shooting threats in Tennessee.Starting this Saturday, any student who makes a mass threat – whether it’s a joke or not &#...

Courtesy East Tennessee Valley Crime StoppersKnoxville, TN (WOKI) The Knoxville Police Department is asking for your help in finding two slippery individuals who made off with an exotic snake from a l...