MONROE COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is looking into the circumstances that led to a shootout between deputies and a suspect at a home in Vonore Monday night. According ...

The Tennessee Department of Transportation demolished the old SR 322 bridge over I-75, causing a weekend closure and ...

It’s Election Day in Monroe County, and voters have decided who will continue to the general election in August. The polls ...

TDOT said the weekend closure will prevent months of rolling roadblocks throughout the summer.

MADISONVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – After nearly 20 years in a facility that was supposed to be temporary, Monroe County Friends of Animals has more than outgrown the space. Plans for a new facility were ...

UPDATE (11/15/2024): Nicholas Wayne Hamlett was extradited back to Tennessee late last night. Hamlett is facing First-Degree Murder charges for the death of Steven Douglas Lloyd near the Cherohala ...

A Monroe County, Tennessee, deputy is recovering after being shot during a standoff with a man wanted on a felony warrant. The barricaded man, identified in court records as Richard Neal Brown, 60, ...

MONROE COUNTY, Tennessee — More than 3,000 counterfeit luxury items were found in Madisonville after an investigation into an online retailer. The Monroe County Sheriff's Office said in a press ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The FBI is assisting the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office and Tennessee authorities in the search for Nicholas Wayne Hamlett, 45. Hamlett is charged with first-degree murder ...

Inspired by accounts of successful conservation by others, a Monroe County, Tennessee, couple joined with The Land Trust For Tennessee to conserve 81 acres of their property adjacent to the Cherokee ...

MONROE COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — The parents of a Monroe County, Tennessee teen who died last month found letters she had written to them before her death. Jason and Crystal Taylor are taking it one day ...