The cuts targeted federal employees across all departments with “probationary status” because they have been hired in the past year. Probationary workers are easier to fire because they lack the ...

A 407-acre tract abutting the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Cataloochee Valley has been conserved, buffering the ...

Applications for the annual Tremont Writers Conference will be accepted through May 15. The conference will be held Oct.

News Director Marilyn Gleason talks with vice chair of the Roaring Fork Audubon Delia Malone about the annual backyard bird ...

Have you ever wondered how locals experience Pigeon Forge differently from tourists? While visitors flock to the most popular ...

From Alaska to Wyoming, here are the best places to see bears in the wild across the U.S., including when to go and tips for ...

Acadia National Park, Maine Imagine standing on Maine's rugged coastline, surrounded by a lively mosaic of reds, oranges, and ...

A 2,000-mile migration was thought to be a “foolish idea,” said Wanda DeWaard, founder of the outdoor education company Earth Kin LLC, who has led a monarch tagging program in Great Smoky Mountains ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — A hiker, who had been reported as missing, was found dead in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Sunday. Ann Houghton, 73, was reported missing on Saturday, February ...

A 73-year-old missing hiker was found deceased in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park over ... particularly focusing on Bradley Fork, Chasteen Creek, Hughes Ridge and Enloe Creek trails ...

MCDOWELL COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) — The North Fork Fire burning north of Marion ... The U.S. Forest Service says the Mountains to Sea Trail between Hwy 221 and FSR 106, Bald Mountain Road (FSR ...

A nearly 6,000-year-old forest is once again seeing daylight after millennia hidden under ice in the Rocky Mountains. A team of scientists from Montana State University, the U.S. Geological ...