What if this is the purpose of my pain? What if my purpose is to take my pain and help other people with theirs?," asked Michael Reed.

Extensive reporting by Knox News has shown park officials knew the wildfire could grow, but those officials failed to warn Gatlinburg or Sevier County residents until the day the fire exploded out ...

Volunteers pick up thousands of pounds of trash each year from Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The annual Spring Clean ...

Wild animals are also being impacted by the fires, which are burning across more than 7,000 acres in Western NC.

Eric Young packed up his cats and left his home in Transylvania County after Hurricane Helene knocked out power, water and ...

A proposal to build a casino in Santee has good points and bad, but lawmakers won't even consider it because of a hypocritical stance on gambling.

Everything in the Appalachian range from northern Georgia to southern Virginia is often thought to be the Smokies. But, of ...

Thursday morning, March 27, Eddie Rutledge of Gatlinburg sent out a plea for help ... including three fires in Polk County. One of those, the Black Cove Fire complex, has become the top-priority ...

Hundreds of people have been asked to leave their homes in North Carolina and South Carolina as a half-dozen large fires are ...