Category Archives: Local News

KNOXVILLE, TN (Story courtesy of WVLT) – Knox Area Rescue Ministries is now offering more services through their care clinic.KARM says it will be focusing in on the Mission District, helping the...

A search for a missing boater on Melton Hill continues today (Friday).Multiple agencies are on scene at Melton Hill Lake in Oak Ridge searching for a boater who they say went missing yesterday (Thursd...

Knoxville, TN (WOKI) A man is accused of breaking into apartments on UT’s campus.Knoxville police say the incidents occurred around 1:00 a.m. Thursday morning on Lake Avenue.Police say 25-year-o...

An injured hiker is rescued from a remote area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.A flight crew with the Tennessee National Guard's 1-230th Assault Helicopter Battalion responded to Snake Den ...

Knoxville City Council delays vote on selling part of Chilhowee Park to Emerald Youth to build a sports and recreation facility.After a lengthy discussion during last night’s (Tues) meeting, cou...

Knoxville, TN (WOKI) Knoxville police arrest a convicted felon in possession of a handgun following a traffic stop.KPD says officers stopped a car early Sunday morning in the area of East Hill Avenue ...

A fixture in many homes for several years delivering the news as presumably the most trusted journalist in Knoxville, WBIR anchor emeritus Bill Williams has died.He died at his home in Knoxville yeste...

The Principal at Friendsville Elementary School in Blount County has been suspended.The Blount County Sheriff's Office opened an investigation into Stan Painter on Friday based on allegations regardin...

KNOXVILLE, TN ( Story courtesy of WVLT) – Emerald Youth is proposing to buy a piece of Chilhowee Park to build a sports and recreation facility.It's a big dollar deal currently being discussed t...

White Pine, TN (WOKI) An arrest has been made nearly one year following a deadly road rage shooting in White Pine.Police say in September of last year they responded to a shooting incident on Roy Mess...