HAMPTON, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) announced Sunday that aggressive bear activity led to the closure of a campground off Watauga Lake. Cardens Bluff will ...

Cardens Bluff has remained closed all week because the TWRA has evidence that a bear took food and garbage at the campground. Officials told News Channel 11 that they set two traps for the bear ...

After reports of aggressive bear activity and evidence of bears entering the campgrounds and taking food and garbage, including food that had been stored in an unoccupied tent, Carden Bluffs ...

Pool levels at Watauga Lake have the potential to reach and break the record level of 1967.06 feet set in 2013. Back in 2013, some campgrounds, picnic areas and marinas were impacted.

The popular Steel Creek Campground, north of Morganton, is among the sites that have been fully booked for months.

“Even though this lake has a tremendous amount of national forest and so forth, you still have businesses, campgrounds, people out for recreational use," said TVA Spokesperson Mary Ellen Miller.

W ATAUGA LAKE, TN (WBTV) - A bear was caught on camera floating down an “all-natural” lazy river in the high country this Labor Day.

Residents of Watauga Lake have come together to clean up after Helene despite not receiving state or federal help.

Just before 7:30 p.m. Friday night, officers were called to Watauga Lake, near Big Island and Watauga Point for reports of a man struggling in the water. A witness on a nearby houseboat jumped in ...

Authorities have identified a North Carolina man who died trying to save a dog that jumped off a boat into a Tennessee lake. Eric Jordan, 52, jumped into Watauga Lake near Hampton on Friday ...