A realigned section of road near Knoxville Center Mall opened to traffic Friday morning.
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Drivers can travel all the westbound lanes of Interstate 40 in Roane County after a sinkhole was repaired Tuesday.
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Crews working for the state Department of Transportation re-opened the northbound travel lanes on State Route 66 in Sevier County Tuesday afternoon after repairing a sinkhole.
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The re-opening of the 100 block of Gay Street in downtown Knoxville is delayed, although officials will still hold a ribbon cutting on Monday.
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Rangers at Great Smoky Mountains National Park are conducting a sobriety checkpoint on Saturday near the Townsend Wye.
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A section of U.S. 129/State Route 115 in Blount County re-opened Friday afternoon after a nearly three month closure due to a rockslide.
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The Foothills Parkway East in Cocke County will temporarily close on Monday, July 12 for the next phase of a construction project in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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The Tennessee Department of Transportation has completed its planning report on how to provide for traffic along the Ocoee River in the state's southeastern corner.
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A major drainage improvement project on First Creek in North Knoxville is due to be completed this fall.
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A major repair project on the Mascot Road bridge in East Knox County is complete Thursday, one day ahead of schedule, officials said.
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Tennessee transportation officials will suspend all construction-related lane closures on interstates and state routes over the July 4 holiday weekend.
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Plans for reconstruction of Newfound Gap Road in the Great Smoky Mountains will proceed after an environmental assessment by the National Park Service.
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The 100 block of Gay Street will re-open on Tuesday, July 20 after completion of a major reconstruction project that's lasted more than a year.
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Officials say a Putnam County project to prevent rockslides along Interstate 40 is to be completed in July.
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A new $58 million four-lane bridge will be built on Highway 321 to replace the bridge on Fort Loudoun Dam, officials announced Friday morning.
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After years of debate, State Route 475, also known as the Knoxville Beltway, parkway and the Orange Route, won't be built, officials announced Friday.
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New cable barriers have been installed in medians here in Knox County. They have several purposes, including preventing fatal car crashes.
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Visitors to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park can drive to Clingmans Dome again. A stimulus project allowed a contractor to resurface the road.
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Rangers will be stepping up enforcement on Great Smoky Mountains National Park roadways in the coming months.
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Traffic will be slowed because of a huge generator being transported from Knox County to Virginia in the next 15 to 20 days.
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A tractor-trailer that wrecked on Highway 62 at the Fentress - Putnam County line Wednesday morning knocked down two power poles and a transformer.
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The Virginia Department of Transportation has terminated two Interstate 81 maintenance contracts worth $56 million, saying the contractor, Infrastructure Corp. of America, didn't meet its requirements.
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Tennessee state troopers begin around-the-clock patrolling of Interstate 24 Wednesday night as the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival ramps up.
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A downtown Knoxville intersection will re-open Wednesday after it was closed for nearly a month for utility work.
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The Tennessee Highway Patrol is teaming up with the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance for Operation Roadcheck 2010.
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A man who opposes police use of cameras to send speeding tickets snatched a bully pulpit when the Bluff City Police Department allowed its website to expire.
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Blount County is looking to capitalize on a marketing effort to promote the 200-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 321 in East Tennessee.
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The driver of a tractor-trailer was killed in a fiery crash Tuesday morning at the I-40/I-81 split in Jefferson County.
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Knoxville's Gay Street Bridge will be closed between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday and Tuesday. The Hill Avenue bridge viaduct is also closing Monday morning for milling and repaving work.