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LeConte Medical Center is one of only 29 facilities in the state of Tennessee to be designated as a Lung Cancer Screening Center by the American College of Radiology. The ACR Lung Cancer Screening Center designation is a voluntary program recognizing facilities that have committed to practice safe, effective diagnostic care for individuals at the highest risk for lung cancer. ...

Sculptures created by 11 University of Tennessee art students that incorporate materials provided by steel recycler Gerdau will be on public display April 6-19, 2017 at the Knoxville Convention Center. “The Art of Recycling” sculpture exhibition celebrates April’s National Recycling Month and is a partnership among Gerdau, Dogwood Arts and the University of Tennessee Sculpture Program. The artworks will be ...

Families looking for a way to squeeze a few more hours out of spring break should visit Dollywood’s Spring Break to enjoy the award-winning park’s extended operating hours, thrilling rides and the mesmerizing talents of enra, a cutting-edge performance group which appeared on America’s Got Talent in 2015. Dollywood’s extended 2017 Spring Break hours give families more time to experience ...

Backyard biosecurity means doing everything you can to protect your birds from disease including Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). As a bird owner, keeping your birds healthy is a top priority. Your birds can become sick or die from exposure to just a few unseen bacteria, viruses or parasites. In a single day, these germs can multiply and infect all ...

Howard Kingsbury started playing golf as a teenager when he and some friends would clear rocks on an Ohio course in exchange for being able to play. He has remained a golfer over the past four decades or so, and while he doesn’t play as much as he might like, he always makes time to participate in a golf fundraiser ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials will reopen the Whiteoak Sink area with limited access effective April 1 through May 15, 2017 to limit human disturbance in critical bat habitat and help hikers avoid interactions with bats. Park biologists will continue monitoring bat populations near the site as they emerge from winter hibernacula to collect population, ecological, and behavioral data ...

Controlling weeds will be important for pastures and hayfields recovering from last year’s drought in Tennessee and across the southeast. Since the drought, I have been receiving lots of questions about what to expect from this spring’s hay and pasture fields. We may not have an answer to that question until this spring when warm temperatures allow our grasses to ...

The Better Business Bureau, Allstate Insurance, TN Consumer Affairs and the Gatlinburg Chamber of Commerce, along with ACE Hardware in Gatlinburg, will host a free consumer education and fraud prevention event on Friday for victims of the Gatlinburg fires. The Fraud Prevention Day event will be held at ACE Hardware, 1025 East Parkway in Gatlinburg, at 10 a.m. on March ...

A teen girl from Tennessee remains missing more than two weeks after being abducted by her former teacher and investigators say they could be anywhere, even Mexico. Story updated to include information released Friday, March 31, 2017. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation held a press conference on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 with an update on the search for 15-year-old Elizabeth ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announced the 2017 spring opening schedule for park facilities. Roads – Secondary Roads are scheduled to open as follows: Forge Creek Road opened on March 10; Clingmans Dome Road will open on April 1; Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail and Round Bottom/Straight Fork Road will open April 7; Rich Mountain Road and Little Greenbrier ...