The hospital in Erwin, Tennessee was destroyed by floodwaters, but no one died. In hindsight, why was it built next to a river?

Patrick Sheehan, director of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency ... system added levees to protect the building from river flooding at the recommendation of outside consultants.

The small hospital in the mountains was overwhelmed by floodwaters from Hurricane Helene, with staff plucked from its roof by ...

Helene’s intense rains didn’t just threaten homes and lives with rising floodwaters but also spawned fatal landslides.

the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency called in swift-water teams, specially designed to rescue people in turbulent waters. But the flash flood had become so violent and the river was so full ...

Hurricane Helene changed the wild Nolichucky River, prized by East Tennessee rafters. Now, railroad repairs may have further ...

ERWIN, Tenn. — April Boyd texted her husband before she boarded the helicopter. This story also ran on CBS News. It can be republished for free. “So, I don’t want to be dramatic,” she wrote on Sept.

The Cocke County Emergency Management Agency is warning people downriver from the Walters Hydroelectric Plant near the ...

The National Weather Service in Morristown had issued a flood warning for the Pigeon River for Sunday evening to Monday afternoon. This warning had a special focus on Newport.

Knox News reporters and photographers scattered around rural parts of East Tennessee for weeks after Hurricane Helene brought dangerous, destructive flooding to the region. Our goal: To inform ...