Category Archives: Local News

The Warren County Pioneer football team will be on the road for the third straight week Friday night as they take on the Cookeville Cavaliers in Region 3 action. Both teams enter the game with identic...

The Tennessee Department of Health urges Tennesseans to take preventive steps to avoid mosquito-borne diseases. TDH has seen a recent increase in West Nile virus in mosquito testing in addition to hum...

Learning disabilities and other special education needs are common in children born with opioid-related symptoms from their mother’s drug use while pregnant, according to the first big U.S. stud...

Nominations are now being taken for the 2018 inductees to the Warren County Sports Hall of Fame. Nomination forms are available at Security Federal Savings Bank, the Southern Standard and at Peg Broad...

McMinnville Police are investigating a number of break-ins that took place last weekend and earlier in the week. Police reports indicate someone broke into Cash n Dash on Chancery Street and made off ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority says it’ll build a $300 million system operations center in the state as part of upgrades to its power grid but some residents have complained the federal utility ...

A large Tennessee hospital system is suing the state’s Medicaid program, TennCare, claiming it’s purposefully siphoning money from hospitals that treat the neediest patients in order to fa...

Visitors at Tennessee State Parks now have more recycling options thanks to new bins delivered this month to all 56 parks.Over 400 BearSaver recycling bins – heavy-duty, pest proof and ADA-compl...

Tennessee set an all-time record in 2017 by reaching $20.7 billion in visitor spending. Governor Bill Haslam announced the record-breaking tourism numbers Tuesday morning. Tourism topped $1 billion in...

Officials say a new program allowing adults to attend community college or technical schools tuition-free in Tennessee has received thousands more applications than anticipated.The Tennessean reported...