Officials in Cocke County urged all of downtown Newport to evacuate immediately just after 3 p.m. Sept. 27 following reports that a North Carolina dam had "suffered a catastrophic failure," though ...

NEWPORT, Tenn. – An urgent dam break warning along Tennessee's Pigeon River is being canceled amid conflicting reports of the dam's status. Tennessee Emergency managers were telling everyone in ...

Untreated sewage continues to flow into the Pigeon River, something that began early Friday, Sept. 27, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. The wastewater treatment plant that serves the town of ...

WOLVERINE, MI – The dam on Cornwall Creek in the Pigeon River Country State Forest is no longer at risk of collapse. That’s because Michigan natural resources officials recently completed the ...

Walters Dam is owned and operated by Duke Energy, and the dam controls a portion of the Pigeon River through the Great Smoky Mountains. Walters Dam is also known as the Waterville Dam, and both ...

Like many Americans, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg saw pictures of what the remnants of Hurricane Helene did to Interstate 40 in Western North Carolina’s Pigeon River Gorge.

Hurricane Helene swept across the Southeast, causing major flooding and destruction throughout North Carolina. Here is ongoing coverage from The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer about ...

Like many Americans, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg saw pictures of what the remnants of Hurricane Helene did ...

Newport, Tennessee, is split by two rivers, the Pigeon and French Broad. On Sept. 27, they turned into pathways of destruction as the Southern Appalachians were drowned in rain from the remnants ...

Of all the roads that need fixing in Western North Carolina, none will pose a bigger challenge than Interstate 40 in the Pigeon River Gorge. The swollen river scoured the earth below the four-lane ...

NEWPORT, Tenn. – An urgent dam break warning along Tennessee's Pigeon River is being canceled amid conflicting reports of the dam's status. Tennessee Emergency managers were telling everyone in the ...