Francis told WVLT News the Great Smoky Mountains National Park has lost 20% of its work force in 15 years, despite seeing the park grow to welcoming in nearly 14 million people a year. He added morale ...

Funding cuts at the national level will have a direct impact on the Great Smoky Mountains, said Jeff Hunter with the National Parks Conservation Association.

The cuts targeted federal employees across all departments with “probationary status” because they have been hired in the past year. Probationary workers are easier to fire because they lack the ...

It was about 10:30 pm, the darkness so inky you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. The leafy boughs of late-spring ...

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From blue-light fireflies to synchronous light shows, these are the best places in Appalachia to see fireflies each summer.

On March 18, 1976, a 1974 Chevy Station Wagon was found abandoned in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The suspicious ...

Missing Great Smoky Mountains National Park volunteer Ann Houghton went missing on Saturday, Feb. 1. Her body was discovered the next day off the Enloe Creek Trail.

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — A hiker, who had been reported as missing, was found dead in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Sunday. Ann Houghton, 73, was reported missing on Saturday, February ...

A 73-year-old missing hiker was found deceased in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park over the weekend, the National Park Service announced. Ann Houghton was found dead on Sunday after being ...

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is home to one of the largest black bear populations in the Eastern United States.

A nearly 6,000-year-old forest is once again seeing daylight after millennia hidden under ice in the Rocky Mountains. A team of scientists from Montana State University, the U.S. Geological ...