Funding cuts at the national level will have a direct impact on the Great Smoky Mountains, said Jeff Hunter with the National Parks Conservation Association.

The cuts targeted federal employees across all departments with “probationary status” because they have been hired in the past year. Probationary workers are easier to fire because they lack the ...

A 407-acre tract abutting the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Cataloochee Valley has been conserved, buffering the park’s boundary from incompatible real estate development, thanks to an acqu ...

It was about 10:30 pm, the darkness so inky you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. The leafy boughs of late-spring ...

Gov. Bill Lee announced in his State of the State address Monday night more money for public education, transportation and ...

The late Rev. Charles A. Trentham, a popular yet controversial minister at Knoxville’s First Baptist Church who became a pastor to President Jimmy Carter in Washington, D.C., in 1977, is mentioned in ...

Embracing Nature's Majesty Yosemite National Park, located in California's Sierra Nevada mountains, is famed for its granite ...

It’s a one-point game!”, but then really got amped ... But the finish was certainly epic. And he did a great job of relaying that.

A 2,000-mile migration was thought to be a “foolish idea,” said Wanda DeWaard, founder of the outdoor education company Earth Kin LLC, who has led a monarch tagging program in Great Smoky Mountains ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — A hiker, who had been reported as missing, was found dead in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Sunday. Ann Houghton, 73, was reported missing on Saturday ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — A hiker, who had been reported as missing, was found dead in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Sunday. Ann Houghton, 73, was reported missing on Saturday, February ...