Details on the dam break. The post Waterville Dam Break Causing Newport Flooding From Hurricane Helene Explained appeared ...

Facebook posts about evacuations created chaos, but walking them back was safer than ignoring the warning signs.

Residents downstream of two North Carolina dams were evacuated after reports of a “catastrophic failure” due to flooding from ...

Now that Hurricane Helene has moved on from Florida, it’s wreaking havoc in other southern states, including Tennessee.

Cocke County Mayor Rob Mathis first alerted residents to leave the Newport area, roughly 60 miles west of Knoxville, in a ...

High waters from both the Pigeon and French Broad rivers closed several roads and led to evacuations and water rescues in East Tennessee.

Residents in Newport, Tennessee have been ordered to evacuate after Mayor Rob Mathis says theWaterville Dam has "suffered a ...

Officials in Cocke County urged all of downtown Newport to evacuate immediately ... The Walters Dam is also known as the Waterville Dam and both names were used in various officials' communications.

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 ...