2011. According to park employee Beverly Phillips, Cove Lake had 684,420 visitors in 2010. (Adam Brimer/News Sentinel) Thirty minutes north of Knoxville are the "big three" — Norris Dam, Cove Lake and Big Ridge state parks — all of which originated in...

The document includes a request to establish a new zone 25-50 miles around reactors in which utilities, including the Tennessee Valley Authority, would have to identify and publicize potential evacuation routes. The groups also want a change in the...

Despite the officials' glowing assessment of their recent efforts, Cindy Reed of Southaven, a critic of the noise, said some residents in neighborhoods nearest the airport worry that it is too little, too late. Staff members of the Tennessee Valley...

(For what it’s worth, the area is called “Big South Fork” to distinguish it from a nearby tributary called the “Little South Fork”). By the late 1960s, the coal had pretty much run out. The Tennessee Valley Authority proposed damming the river for...

They ultimately established three sites in remote areas of the US, two to produce fuel and one to design the bombs. Oak Ridge, Tennessee was designated as one of the fuel sites. At the time, it was a remote mountain community, and there was a ready...

I ultimately got my answer, but not in the way I had intended. The Ocoee River is dam controlled. The dams were built in the 1920s, by a power company that was ultimately acquired by the Tennessee Valley Authority. In 1976, the Authority was forced to...