That’s really the only reason he put in for the blackpowder draw hunt on public ground an hour and a half from his home. He hadn’t visited the Rhea County tract in 15 years. Both he and his ...

Just in time for summer, the Tennessee Valley Authority is unleashing more American energy with the announcement Wednesday that it has added 500 additional megawatts of electricity to ...

A small town in Tennessee courted national publicity a century ago when it recruited a local teacher to challenge a state law banning the teaching of evolution. What they got ...

The Rhea County Courthouse has become and remained an important historical site since the notorious Scopes trial. Still, to ...

The Rhea County Courthouse has become and remained an important historical site since the notorious Scopes trial. Still, to this say the site sparks conversation.

Around that time, its economy became anchored by the Dayton Coal and Iron Company, which by 1925 − the year of the trial − remained the largest industry ever established in Rhea County, the ...

Locals in Dayton now mark that history with a festival and reenactment staged in the historic Rhea County Courthouse courtroom where the 1925 trial took place.

Football is king in Tennessee and the king requires money. Rhea County football is gearing up for the upcoming season with one of its two biggest fundraisers earlier this week with its annual ...