GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) — A six-state yard sale that stretches from Alabama to Michigan is being held this weekend despite concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. Beginning Thursday and ending Sunday, thousands of people will travel a 690-mile-long stretch of Middle…
JASPER, Tennessee (WDEF) - There were lots of first time winners but not many upsets in the Thursday elections in Tennessee. However, people in Marion County got a new representative in the State House. State lawmaker Thomas Tillis was upset…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WDEF) -- The Tennessee Valley Authority has announced it will rescind a decision to lay off its in-house technology workers. The authority had been planning on replacing those workers with contractors who rely heavily on foreign workers under…
He will face upset winner Marquita Bradshaw on the Democratic side.
Video messages from (most) of the other Republican candidates for U.S. Senate, including Roy Dale Cope of Chattanooga
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia has become the fifth American state to record 200,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus. The numbers were announced Wednesday as the state also neared 4,000 deaths from the COVID-19 respiratory illness that the virus causes. The milestone…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — President Donald Trump has offered one more virtual boost on the eve of Election Day for Bill Hagerty, who is tangled up in a tough Republican primary for an open U.S. Senate seat. On Wednesday, Trump…
A fundraising drive has reached its goal of bringing in $1.5 million to save Space Camp from closing because of the coronavirus pandemic.
CROSSVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency released information on Tuesday on three boating incidents from the weekend. They include a boat collision Saturday on the Hiwassee River. It happened after dark, around 10 PM near the Highway…
Lee’s state health agency had stated last week that it would not collect nor report data regarding the virus in schools.
both candidates will be in our area this week.
Jim Clayton identified his brother and business partner Joe Clayton as the person who died.
One person has died after a helicopter crashed into the Tennessee River.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Gov. Bill Lee has announced he’s calling lawmakers back to the Capitol to address legislation that would provide health care providers, schools and businesses broad protections against coronavirus lawsuits. Lee said Monday that the special legislative…
UNION: "This work really does belong to the people of the valley. TVA: "We have to make this change. It's what's best for the Valley."
Report says outbreak has moved into more rural communities with fewer health care resources.
Trump fires Tennessee Valley Authority chair, citing executive compensation, hiring of foreign workers.
Recent negotiations at Capitol Hill could mean a second stimulus check is on the way. But millions of Americans are still waiting on their stimulus check.
“mile abrasion and a few small puncture wounds.”
critical care beds statewide are 87% full.
STEVENSON, Alabama (WDEF) - Deputies in northeast Alabama are looking for a woman who they say tried to run over a drug officer who was trying to arrest her. The confrontation and chase happened Tuesday night south of Stevenson. Jackson…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is extending a state order requiring face coverings in public for another month. And she says masks will be required for students in grade 2 and above in an attempt to slow…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Democratic head of a congressional coronavirus oversight panel has demanded that Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and three other Republican governors provide documents showing how their states are combating the pandemic. Similar letters were sent to…
$600,000 in federal funds received by a health care company she directed.