Van Buren County News

To most people, a 10-foot-square space might feel like a jail cell. But for two arctic foxes and a South American coati rescued this June from tiny cages in a Van Buren County puppy mill, the Chattanooga Zoo's quarantine cells were almost palatial.

PIKEVILLE, TN Speaking at town hall meeting in Bledsoe County today, U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said the Senate Finance Committee's health care bill could raise the cost of health insurance for some Tennesseans by as much as 60 percent.

Van Buren County administrators canceled classes Friday, MoOfficials said so many students and teachers were sick in Van Buren County that closing school would be the best idea.nday and Tuesday.

In a fair and just society, governments, corporations and citizens share equally in the burdens, risks and rewards of governmental and corporate decisions.

A two-day economic development conference shed some light on the state's economic future.

Drug agents cut down more than 151,000 mature marijuana plants and used a helicopter to haul what they described Thursday as a major pot crop out of a rugged, mountainous area near the Kentucky border.

A jet ski crash in Van Buren County has sent a 15-year-old boy to the hospital. It happened Wednesday afternoon on North Lake in Pine Grove Township.

A jet ski crash in Van Buren County has sent a 15-year-old boy to the hospital. It happened Wednesday afternoon on North Lake in Pine Grove Township.

At the Nashville Farmers Market, shoppers can browse among baskets of plump tomatoes, fragrant peaches with velvet skins and literally truckloads of corn.

Recipients of the 2009 Certificate of Merit Awards are: The Trail of Tears Association, Tennessee Chapter, Spencer / Van Buren County - In recognition of the group's efforts to document trail-associated sites across the state.

The National Weather Service issued tornado watches for central Tennessee late Thursday evening.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.- There's new hope for dozens of animals rescued from filthy conditions in Van Buren County.

Dozens of animals were removed from a home in Van Buren County after authorities said they were found in inhumane conditions.