Calling the incident a "disaster," U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., visited the Kingston fly ash spill site Monday and urged TVA to conduct public meetings about the issue.

The Tennessee Valley Authority knew for the past decade of leaks at the fly ash retention pond that ruptured in Roane County two weeks ago, TVA and state inspection reports show.

Even in his “serious” portrait, Walker County firefighter Jarrett Little couldn’t help but smile.

Each year, Dennis C. Harris bundles up in winter wear, straps binoculars around his neck and heads out to Chickamauga Dam for a 24-hour stint in the woods.

Ruth Holmberg said selling her family’s newspaper 10 years ago was one of the most difficult business decisions she ever had to make.

Rhonda McDonough only needs a set of 10 shiny fingernails and newly colored tresses to feel better about a limp economy.

HARRIMAN, Tenn. — Crystell Flinn wasn’t home when a tsunami of fly ash sludge lifted her house from the shore of the Emory River, shoved it across Swan Pond Road Circle and carried it with frightening cracks and pops into a ridge and stand of trees.

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga head football coach Russ Huesman introduced the members of his coaching staff at McKenzie Arena on Friday.

Chattanooga shoe-repair store owner Reginald Cousin says economic downturns bring more business to the store, since many people would rather have older shoes repaired than buy new ones.

Watch as Terry and Sandy Gupton explain the effects a coal-ash spill that flooded part of their farm property near Harriman, Tenn. Coal ash blanketed more than 300 acres surrounding the TVA steam plant after an earthen retaining wall around the Kingston plant's ash pond broke in late December, emptying 5.4 million cubic yards of coal ash into the adjacent river and low lying properties.