A new public art installation has danced into town, blooming seemingly overnight within Houston Botanic Garden. A chorus of 29 life-size figures, sculpted from steel rebar by contemporary artist ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — This week marks six months since Hurricane Helene devastated parts of East Tennessee and western North Carolina. While the majority of Tennessee roads have reopened ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Roughly one year after 22-year-old Riley Strain’s body was found in the Cumberland River in Nashville, his family filed a wrongful death lawsuit in the state of Misso ...

CLINTON, Tenn. (WATE) — Anderson County gave more than $425,000 in opioid settlement grant funding to various organizations to fight opioid use. The County announced the awards during a special ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — For the first time in nearly 50 years, Rural Metro Fire – Knox County will be charging non-subscribers for emergency medicals call they respond to. Non-subscribers ...

NEWPORT, Tenn. (WATE) — On Saturday volunteers began cleaning up a historic cemetery in Cocke County. Roadman Cemetery is believed to be the first municipal cemetery in Newport with graves ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A family’s worst nightmare became reality Friday when Belle and Cyndi Greer were home alone when Cyndi’s blood pressure dropped causing her to faint. Luckily for ...

CLAXTON, Tenn. (WATE) — Students at Claxton Elementary School will soon have access to a better math and science education thanks to an ‘Extreme Classroom Makeover’ that is bringing $7,500 ...

A French politician is in the limelight for his recent and rather controversial statement. He has called for the US to return the Statue of Liberty, presented by the French people as a gift in 1884.

France’s self-professed last sculpture foundry has weighed into a row over whether the US should return the Statue of Liberty to its country of origin by proposing to build a new one out of ...

KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — Knoxville had a “modest increase in housing diversity,” last year, according to a report from Knoxville-Knox County Planning. Housing diversity refers to the so ...

HARROGATE, Tenn. (WATE) — The remains found inside a restaurant after a fire on March 3 have been identified, Claiborne County Sheriff Bob Brooks said. The remains were identified as Claudio ...