Brief Synthesis The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a major North American refuge of temperate zone flora and fauna that survived the Pleistocene glaciations. The park includes the largest ...

The last time the NCHSAA played eight football state championships, the Smoky Mountain Conference won 11 in 20 years. How will it fare in 2025?

For the Smoky Mountain Conference schools, hidden in the western-most corner of the state, reclassification feels like a return to parity. “Everybody is going to benefit from it,” Watson said.

Elk are found mainly in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park — where they were re-introduced in 2021 after becoming extinct in the mountains due to over-hunting — and along the bordering ...

The last time the NCHSAA played eight football state championships, the Smoky Mountain Conference won 11 in 20 years. How will it fare in 2025?

HARTFORD, Tenn. (AP) — Crews on Friday reopened a section of Interstate 40 along its narrow corridor through the Great Smoky Mountains after flooding and a rock slide closed the major cross ...

Crews have reopened a section of Interstate 40 along its narrow corridor through the Great Smoky Mountains after flooding and a rock slide closed the major cross country highway for nine days ...