Residents of Newport, Tennessee ... in a post to Facebook just before 3 p.m. EST Friday, writing that the Waterville Dam had "suffered a catastrophic failure." In a following update to Facebook ...

Tennessee is now facing the storm’s wrath. The town of Newport in Cocke County is facing major flooding because the ...

Officials in Cocke County urged all of downtown Newport to evacuate ... reports that a North Carolina dam had "suffered a catastrophic failure," though the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency ...

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 ...

At 2:56 p.m., Mathis said that the Waterville Dam, also known as Walters Dam, suffered a catastrophic failure and ordered all of downtown Newport to evacuate. The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency ...

As Hurricane Helene brought historic flooding to Cocke County and devastated riverside communities in upper East Tennessee ... which operates the dam in Waterville, North Carolina, later issued ...

The Waterville Dam in Tennessee, which sits across the state line from Newport, North Carolina, was declared a state of emergency. Residents in Newport, a town of 7,000 people, were ordered to get ...

Officials in Cocke County, Tennessee said on Friday afternoon that the Waterville Dam, just over the state line in North Carolina, had failed and ordered everyone in downtown Newport to get out.