Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — If you’d like to hunt elk in Tennessee this year, the application period for 2026 Elk Quota Hunts opens ...

Great Smoky Mountains — Visitors in the Great Smoky Mountains have recently crossed paths with a couple of surprise attractions on the Tennessee side of the national park. Two young male elk from the ...

For roughly 150 years, the sound of bugling elk was missing from Tennessee’s mountains — a silence so long-lasting it felt permanent. The state’s native Eastern elk subspecies disappeared in the ...