TVA’s 9-member board should soon be back to full strength, the chairman of a Senate panel that oversees TVA said today.

CLEVELAND, Tenn. -- Standing beneath the towering lines and switches at one of TVA's newest substations, Jeff Miller scans the overhead electrical equipment with his thermal-imaging camera, looking for any hot spots that might indicate a problem.

Standing in the freezing rain two hours before sunrise last Friday, Missy Wallace joined nearly three dozen other homeless Chattanoogans waiting for the Chattanooga Community Kitchen to open for breakfast.

Faced with having to compete with the city-owned EPB for cable TV customers, Comcast Corp. wants Chattanooga to give up its right to regulate what the company charges for cable television service.

The U.S. House vote to raise the nation's debt limit by $1.9 trillion last week triggered tough responses from Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Chris Devaney and U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn.

Chattanooga's river artery remains off limits for barge traffic this weekend after heavy rains boosted the flow of the rain-swollen Tennessee River.

Heavy rains are forcing the suspension of river navigation through the Tennessee River Gorge today and will raise the levels of South Chickamauga Creek in Chattanooga to just below flood stage by Saturday morning, according to the Tennessee Valley Authority.

In a quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, TVA said cheaper fuel and other operating expenses helped the federal utility reverse the losses it incurred in the same 3-month period a year ago.

The Tennessee Valley Authority is preparing to make a key component for America's hydrogen bombs at its Sequoyah Nuclear Plant near Soddy-Daisy.

The rain and snow may have been a hardship for some Chattanoogans over the past year, but it is helping to cut what they pay for electricity.