Cocke County Mayor Rob Mathis first alerted residents to leave the Newport area, roughly 60 miles west of Knoxville, in a ...

Panicked local officials initially said the Waterville Dam and the Lake Lure Dam had burst, but both were reportedly still ...

Emergency officials issued an immediate evacuation order for Newport, Tenn., on Friday as a dam suffered catastrophic failure ...

High waters from both the Pigeon and French Broad rivers closed several roads and led to evacuations and water rescues in ...

At least 42 dead as two towns under evacuation orders over dams at risk of failure - Thousands told to evacuate their homes in North Carolina after storm Helene shifts north ...

Running on next to no sleep, or none at all, Chattanooga firefighters are doing what they can to keep residents of Newport ...

COCKE COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) - The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency is claiming that Walters Dam, otherwise known as Waterville Dam, has not failed. TEMA is citing the dam’s owner, Duke Energy. It ...

The mayor of Cocke County declared a state of emergency, and the National Weather Service issued a Flash Flood Warning.

As of Friday, the Middle Tennessee region remains under a flood watch. The remnants of Helene will bring along heavy rainfall ...

The authorities were evacuating residents living downstream from the Nolichucky Dam, warning it was likely to fail and cause ...

Facebook posts about evacuations created chaos, but walking them back was safer than ignoring the warning signs.

A North Carolina dam failure is imminent after water levels at the Broad River rose 10 feet in only a few hours from ...