GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — Beginning in June, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is hosting programs once a month featuring American Sign Language interpreters. The programs will run ...

The road into Cades Cove turns off the main highway at Kinzel Springs, rises in sweeping loops through a range of wooded foothills, dips across a wide valley and then climbs abruptly into the Smokies ...

10About Town is traveling around the region to find the best ways to vacation. Here are some staycation ideas that prove that rest and fun don’t require leaving town.

Animals you can own in Tennessee. Class III: This class requires no permits except those required by the department of agriculture, and includes all species not listed in other classes.

Animals you can own in Tennessee. Nonpoisonous reptiles and amphibians except caimans and gavials. Rodents like gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs, rats, mice, squirrels and chipmunks.

A zebra is on the loose in Tennessee. TikTok / @615nav. Dodging vehicles and narrowly avoiding getting hit, the pet caused havoc when it ran along a busy Greater Nashville interstate over the weekend.

U.S. Wildlife Services unintentionally killed almost 3,000 animals last year, including 16 red foxes like these. The foxes died after exposure to “cyanide bombs.” Photograph by MELISSA GROO ...

Most of these animals go unseen, because they are just shy, Kieschnick said, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. "You want to maintain the shyness of these critters," he said.

That finding: several frozen, dead animals in two separate freezers in the garage behind the popular ice cream shop. Pienta says that he believes the total number to be around 13 or 14 dead animals.

Animals deemed ‘inherently dangerous to humans’ like lions, gorillas and wolves can only be owned by zoos or circuses. Another zebra got loose in Cookeville in 2021. That one was caught by police.