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Kingston coal ash families, county officials prepare for 15th anniversary of disaster
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 4 months agoTo mark 15 years since a dike gave way at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston plant, spilling...
TVA's Kingston plant is being replaced. 5 things to know, from jobs to natural gas
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoThe Tennessee Valley Authority will retire the Kingston coal-fired plant and replace it with a...
Kingston coal ash settlement: What it means for the cleanup workers who sued
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 11 months agoAttorneys for the Kingston coal ash workers and Jacobs Solutions told Knox News on Tuesday, May 23,...
Roane County exec to speak to Oak Ridge League
The Oak Ridger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe League of Women Voters of Oak Ridge will host Wade Creswell, the newly elected Roane County executive, at a Tuesday meeting. This event will be held...
TVA's Kingston plant will generate new energy by 2027, leaving coal and smokestacks behind
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoThe Tennessee Valley Authority will retire the Kingston Fossil Plant – once the largest coal-fired power plant in the world and the site of a major coal ash disaster – and replace it with a ...
Woman identified 36 years after remains found in Tennessee. Could ties to Knox County solve her...
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 5 months agoA woman whose remains were found in 1987 in Roane County has been identified and is believed to have...
Election Day: Polls open at 9 a.m. in Anderson, 8 a.m. in Roane
The Oak Ridger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTuesday is Election Day and area voters will be going to their normal voting sites to cast their...
Tommy Johnson, one of the Kingston cleanup workers who sued over coal ash exposure, dies
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 11 months agoTommy Johnson, one of the workers at the center of lawsuits over the Kingston coal ash spill, died...
What to do when the power goes out: Reporting an outage to East Tennessee utilities
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 4 months agoEast Tennesseans are bracing for potential single-digit temperatures as a cold front heads our way....
Vigil in Knoxville for Kingston spill workers; rulings ahead
The Oak Ridger via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLeading up to a court case for the workers who cleaned up the 2008 Kingston coal ash spill, local...