Instead, Near and his co-authors argue, the tiny fish known as Percina tanasi that embodied a David and Goliath battle against the Tellico Dam is an eastern population of the stargazing darter ...

A wildfire in Tellico Plains, Tennessee has prompted evacuations in Monroe County.Monroe County officials are partnering with McMinn County in their containmen ...

In 1978, the Supreme Court gave the judgment that "the Endangered Species Act prohibits impoundment of the Little Tennessee River by the Tellico Dam." Later on, lawmakers overruled the decision by ...

TELLICO PLAINS, Tenn. (WATE) — All evacuation orders have been lifted for Monroe County after crews were able to contain a wildfire near Tellico Plains. Wednesday morning, Monroe County Mayor ...

MONROE COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) — Several areas have been asked to evacuate after a wildfire has spread across 50 acres in Tellico Plains. The areas being asked to evacuate include: Rafter Road Lake ...

The snail darter was the species at the center of the Tellico Dam controversy that culminated in the U.S. Supreme Court’s Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill decision in 1976, and the new paper has ...

Wildfires have once again overtaken portions of East Tennessee. Local fire departments and the Tennessee National Guard are fighting several wildfires in Sevier County, near Gatlinburg, as well as ...

who sought to protect the fish and its free-flowing habitat in the Little Tennessee River from construction of the controversial Tellico Dam. The dam was halted for two years, but political forces in ...

TELLICO PLAINS, Tenn. (WATE) — Evacuation orders have been lifted after wildfires were deemed under control in Monroe County Wednesday morning. According to Monroe County Mayor Mitch Ingram, one ...