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National Park Week
This is National Park Week, and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has announced that record visitation in 2016, saw 33 million visitors to America’s 417 National Park Service sites and contributed $35 billion to the U.S. economy. According to the annual peer-reviewed economics report, 2016 National Park Visitor Spending Effects, the strong economic output is attributed to record visitation and visitor spending in “gateway” communities near national park entrances. The report also found visitor spending supported 318,000 jobs . Tennessee ranks tenth in the nation in visitor spending, with $665 million spent by visitors to national parks in the state. That spending supported 10,200 jobs, brought in salaries totaling $320 million and contributed 'value added' income of $540 million, to Tennessee.
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Return to Today's News Stories - Front PageMonday, May 21, 2018
Rolling Thunder to stop off in Cocke County
Cocke Fire
Paramedics attacked
Lawson arrest in shooting
Trump to visit Nashville
Expensive gas for Memorial holiday
Saturday, May 19, 2018
Tiny Homes purchases former Ace Products site
Qualifying is underway for Newport and Parrottsville posts
Do not disturb young wildlife
Farm Bill defeated
TBI investigating Greene County officer involved shooting
Walters State is tech-savvy
Friday fuel leak
Friday, May 18, 2018
Partnership update
Fancher is candidate for Newport mayor
Missing Retreivers
Corley arrest
Safe Boating Awareness
Thursday, May 17, 2018
SNAP could be cut to pay for tax cuts
Marijuana sentencing
Candidates for governor poll
Bredesen /Blackburn poll
Tennessee sues Oxycontin maker
In lieu of tax payments
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Trouten pleads to arson
Phone wire cut in Del Rio
Cocke County School Board meets
Cocke County Jail assaults
Buckner injury
Burger search
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