The Sevierville Police Department is offering a free self-defense class for women of all ages. The 12-hour Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D.) class is a program of realistic self-defense tactics and techniques for women. The R.A.D. system is a comprehensive, women-only course that begins with awareness, prevention, risk reduction and risk avoidance, while progressing on to the basics of hands-on defense ...

The East Tennessee Career Coach will be in Sevierville at a Lowe’s Hiring Event. Lowe’s representatives will be taking applications for various open positions from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at the 610 Winfield Dunn Parkway store in Sevierville, Tenn. The Career Coach is a mobile job center operated by Tennessee’s Department of Labor & ...

Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge Police are looking for a suspect who may have used an Airsoft Gun to commit a string of armed robberies along the Parkway on Tuesday. According to the Gatlinburg Police Department, a male suspect attempted to rob Blaine’s Grill & Bar at 812 Parkway #105 in Gatlinburg at gunpoint just after 2 p.m. on Feb. 23, ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park rangers are recruiting volunteers to adopt a phenology monitoring plot in areas throughout the park. Volunteers will collect information as part of an important research project tracking seasonal biological data such as plant flowering dates and the presence of migratory birds. Tracking this phenology data across the park allows scientists to better understand how plants ...

A head on collision on Chapman Highway over the weekend has left three residents of Sevier County dead. According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, the accident occurred on Chapman Highway just south of the Simpson Road intersection in Knoxville at about 4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016. 43-year-old Herman R. Maldonado, of Sevierville, Tenn., was traveling northbound on Chapman ...

The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office is warning the public not to fall for an arrest warrant scam. Officials said they have received numerous reports of an arrest warrant scam from the public in which a subject identifying himself by various names and claiming to be from the warrants or subpoena division calls on the phone and asks for payment. Sometimes, ...

The National Park Service certified park visitation numbers yesterday, showing that Great Smoky Mountains National Park experienced the largest number of visitors in its history last year. Great Smoky Mountains National Park had 10,712,674 recreational visitors in 2015, breaking a visitation record set in 1999 and earning the title of #1 Most Visited National Park. The Top Ten Most Visited ...

Tennessee officials are warning the public about potential fire hazards of hoverboards after the devices were found to be the cause of two fires in Nashville recently, including a hoverboard fire that destroyed a luxury home. “Today, the Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance and the Tennessee State Fire Marshal’s Office renew our strong warning to Tennessee consumers about so-called ...

Job seekers can meet employers with current job openings at a Jobs4TN Hiring Event in Sevierville this week. The Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development has announced a Jobs4TN Hiring Event sponsored by Rep. Dale Carr, Rep. Andrew Farmer, and Tennessee Drug Testing from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016 at the River Plantation Conference ...

Two suspects who robbed and assaulted a man at a Sevier County flea market in December of last year are still at large, and the victim has since died from his injuries. Detectives with the Sevierville Police Department released the following photos and are requesting assistance from the public to identify two persons of interest in the flea market murder ...