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1 week ago | 
wnct.com | Matt Hollingsworth |Gregory Raucoules
NEWPORT, Tenn. (WATE) — Traffic on Interstate 40 in Cocke County is being diverted due to flooding and a possible rockslide, the Tennessee Department of Transportation announced. It remains closed as of Thursday morning, TDOT said.
Just after 5 p.m. Wednesday, TDOT spokesperson Mark Nagi said that both directions of traffic of I-40 at Exit 451 were closed. Motorists are advised to seek alternate routes. The detour routes are I-81 to I-26 and I-81 to I-77, TDOT wrote Thursday afternoon.
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1 week ago | 
wate.com | Matt Hollingsworth
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The East Tennessee Foundation (ETF) awarded $246,500 in grants to 24 nonprofits supporting women and children in Knox County. ETF gave grants of up to $12,000 to several organizations as part of its Mount Rest Fund. The goal for 2025 was to address community priorities like early childhood education, drivers of health and prevention of adverse childhood experiences, ETF wrote.
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1 week ago | 
newsnationnow.com | Matt Hollingsworth |Gregory Raucoules
Flooding, rockslide closes I-40 near Tennessee-North Carolina state line NEWPORT, Tenn. (WATE) — Traffic on Interstate 40 in Cocke County is being diverted due to flooding and a possible rockslide, the Tennessee Department of Transportation announced. It remains closed as of Thursday morning, TDOT said. TDOT estimated that repairs and cleanup will take at least two weeks.
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1 week ago | 
wate.com | Matt Hollingsworth
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1 week ago | 
wate.com | Matt Hollingsworth
ATHENS, Tenn. (WATE) — The Athens City Police Department is seeking information after a fatal crash involving a motorcycle, the city of Athens government said. On Wednesday, ACPD officers responded to a crash at the intersection of Redfern Road and Congress Parkway. One person was pronounced dead on the scene. After investigating, officers found two separate crashes had occurred at the site. The first crash involved a motorcycle and a box truck.
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1 week ago | 
wate.com | Matt Hollingsworth
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Lambda Legal, and the Tennessee Equality Project expressed strong disagreement with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Tennessee’s ban on transgender medical care for minors. In a 6-3 decision announced Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s law banning puberty blockers and hormone treatments for minors who identify as transgender. Another 26 states have similar laws.
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1 week ago | 
wate.com | Matt Hollingsworth
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The city of Knoxville government released renderings of the planned Burlington Fire Station. The city will break ground on the new Fire Station Number 6 in Burlington later this year, and they expect to finish by the end of 2026, it said. City officials say it will cost $8.6 million. The city plans to build the station one block from the 88-year-old one that it’s replacing. They plan for it to have seven firefighters and two bays for fire trucks.
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1 week ago | 
wate.com | Matt Hollingsworth
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1 week ago | 
wate.com | Matt Hollingsworth
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Knoxville Fire Department extinguished a fire that caused heavy damage to a home early Wednesday morning. Around 2:11 a.m. Wednesday morning, a person called in reporting a house fire in the 1300 block of West 4th Avenue in Knoxville. KFD units went to the scene where they found heavy smoke and flames coming from the back of the home. They also found a man who said that the house’s bedroom was on fire. The crews entered the house and stopped the fire within five minutes.
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1 week ago | 
wate.com | Matt Hollingsworth
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A crash report revealed new information about the Maynardville Highway collision Friday that left one person dead and three injured. The report identifies the man who died as Avery LeRue Eskridge, 51, of Knoxville. A deputy spoke to witnesses who said that Eskridge’s 2004 Porche SUV was traveling north on Maynardville Pike at high speeds, passing other vehicles in the turn lane. It then drifted into other lanes.
