Gatlinburg News

THE DAILY TIMES Members of Knoxville Pipes and Drums performance Sunday morning during the final day of the Smoky Mountain Highland Games at Maryville College.

Things haven't been go ing all that well for Gov. Bill Haslam 's administration lately on the media attention front, so maybe it was understandable that he expressed irritation last week when asked about ties to an East Tennessee developer who benefited from recently passed legislation.

What do Great Smoky Mountain National Park and Malaysian jungles have in common - the presence of synchronous fireflies of course.

Authorities are praising new metal detectors that prevented a man from walking into the Morgan County courthouse with a weapon in his back-pocket. Authorities are praising new metal detectors that prevented a man from walking into the Morgan County courthouse with a weapon in his back-pocket. The Gatlinburg Presbyterian Church congregation speaks ... (more)

Hendersonville residents might have some of the best tasting tap water around. The Hendersonville Utility District, for the third time in seven years, has won the title of best-tasting water for Region 5, which includes all of Sumner, Wilson, Robertson and Davidson counties.

A field of 144 women hoping to make it - or make it back - to the LPGA Tour will tee it up in... The Great Smoky Mountains National Park a scenic overlook along the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail near Gatlinburg, Tenn., in seen in this file photo.

Gov. Bill Haslam will probably pass into law a bill that would aid a personal business associate and overrule the city of Gatlinburg's efforts to regulate moonshine distilleries.

B&W Y-12's direct-hire construction team has been recognized for more than 1 million hours worked without a lost-time accident and zero recordable injuries for 2012.

From January through April 2013, there were 1,620,340 visits into Great Smoky Mountains National Park - 11.6 percent below the five-year average of January to April visitation.

The phrase "he is one with nature" truly applies for one local man. He is always outside.

Reese Witherspoon's very public outburst on the 19th of April, and her subsequent arrest for disorderly conduct, painted a more blemished picture of the actress we once adored as an Oscar darling.

If you are looking for a job that's a little outside the norm, you may want to head to Gatlinburg on Saturday! Ripley's Attractions are holding a job fair on Saturday, May 11 from 10 am to 2 pm on the lower plaza of Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies.

Summer can't be far off, as the fireflies will be flashing soon in the Smokies, and family days are scheduled at the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park.

It's been a truly soggy weekend throughout the region. From Friday through Monday morning, 5 inches of rain fell at Ooltewah, 4 inches at Gatlinburg and 3 inches in Anderson County.

Bob Bentz said Monday that his group more than a year ago bought 55 acres contiguous to the Arrowmont site from the Pi Beta Phi fraternity.

Pink trillium blooms on the Huskey Gap Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Gatlinburg Thursday, April 25, 2013.

The Market Square restaurant is one of 11 Knoxville businesses and government agencies that have met the National Standard of Excellence awarded by Best Workplaces for Commuters and the National Center for Transit Research.

April, a graduate of Furman University with a Bachelors Degree in Psychology, currently works as an Office Manager and Marketing Director at SC Upstate CPR.

Celebrity of the Year: Sen. Stacey Campfield , of course. Hands down. From Jay Leno and Stephen Colbert to Jon Stewart and Piers Morgan on national TV, from TMZ to Huffington Post on the national blogosphere, they all talked with - or at least about - the red-haired Knoxville Republican on the cutting edge of red state conservatism.

Betsy Bealer, executive secretary for Life Care Centers of America's Legal department, was named Administrative Professional of the Year during a ceremony honoring Life Care's administrative professionals on Life Care's corporate campus on April 25.