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  About once a quarter, my wife and I drive down to Knoxville to make bulk purchases at SAMS because it is cheaper.  Knoxville is about abou...

SEVIERVILLE, Tenn.--Tennessee's Soaky Mountain Waterpark in Sevierville will debut a water coaster promising to be the first-of-its-kind...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. ( WATE ) — Could your workweek be getting a little bit shorter? One business expert with the University of Tennessee thinks...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. ( WATE ) — Not everyone is an expert in human resources or business management and there are terms used among professionals...

ORNL’s Joseph Lukens runs experiments in an optics lab. Credit: Jason Richards/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Scientists' increasing mastery...

Black Lives Matter organizer Pamela Moses was convicted in Nov. 2021 and sentenced to six years in prison in Feb. 2022 for illegally registe...

Jack Daniel's is a brand of Tennessee whiskey and the best-selling whiskey in the world. It is produced in Lynchburg, Tennessee , by th...

The secret lake hidden in the Smoky Mountains Legend states that Atagahi Lake was shallow, purple, and fed by mountain springs (photo by Pet...

What happens during a heart catheterization procedure? In cardiac catheterization (often called cardiac cath), your doctor puts a very small...

It’s not often we get a glimpse into the road not taken.  There was a movement in the early 1900s to preserve the beauty of the Great Smoky ...

In 1990, the high school dropout rate for Dolly Parton's hometown of Sevierville, Tennessee was at 34%. Research shows that most kids ma...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WZTV) — Great Smoky Mountain National Park Service is warning visitors to keep their distance from elk in the park as bre...

Swarms of synchronous fireflies are rather like melting ice, or at least that’s how Raphael Sarfati, a physicist, sees it. Ice remains solid...

Life in America now is different than life in America was...  at least for the old timers...  who were around in the 1960's with the Vie...

We left Destin at 7:00 am EST which was 6:00 am Central Time which means we were up at 5:00 am this morning in order to get home at a reason...

All of my life until the age of 43/44, I have had two types of dogs as pets:  a Dachshund and a Labrador Retriever; but when I relocated to ...