Stringer’s Ridge is formally set for preservation. The Tennessee River Gorge Trust has accepted 55 acres of property — the side of the ridge facing downtown Chattanooga — from developer Jimmy Hudson. The transaction was announced Friday.

One of the Chattanooga Zoo's three endangered red pandas has died and another is seriously ill. Zoo officials say all the pandas are over the age of 11 -- geriatric for red pandas since the animals normally live about eight to 10 years.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission last week told TVA and other nuclear plant operators to reassess the earthquake risks at each of their reactors.

Black bears, once seen in the Southeast only during a visit to the Great Smoky Mountains, are making a comeback. From Little River Canyon in Alabama to Cloudland Canyon in Georgia and along the Cumberland Plateau in Southeast Tennessee, bear sightings are becoming more common—sometimes in backyards.

Normally, January provides the days to talk about our fingers feeling single-tingle digits, and today is when the groundhog is supposed to foretell whether spring will be here sooner or later.

A federal jury Monday convicted three Chattanoogans of polluting an East Chattanooga community with asbestos during the demolition of an old textile mill.

A federal jury today found three Chattanooga men and a company guilty of conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act when they demolished an old textile mill without first properly removing asbestos.

Electric ratepayers will shoulder TVA's cost to prepare for a final round of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's stepped-up inspections triggered by last year's "red" safety finding.

The defendants charged in a federal case alleging improper asbestos removal—and their jury—have all weekend to think about their pending verdict.

Members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s inspection team for the Browns Ferry “red” safety finding ticked off a litany of TVA deficiencies Thursday during a public meeting at the plant.

Working at a day care center near an asbestos-containing plant as it was being demolished, Bettye Gaston Spratling said she frequently watched dust from the worksite roll toward her classroom of 4- and 5-year-olds.

Neither the prosecution nor the defense drew any fire Monday when they questioned the brother and business partner of a man facing federal charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, Clean Air Act violations and obstruction of justice.

Gerald and Kathi Barrett’s first years of what they thought would be glorious retirement to quiet, beautiful Tennessee have become a fight with land developers who promised more than they could deliver.

TVA has ordered an unpaid safety "stand down" at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant for about 1,000 contract workers after finding cables had been erroneously removed from Unit 1 - the operating reactor - in December.

What land conservationists recently called "a good day for conservation," just went bad.

Attorneys for defendants accused of asbestos pollution tried to put local air regulators on trial Wednesday.

Former EPA investigator Jeff Crane told a federal jury Tuesday that he learned of the Standard Coosa Thatcher demolition that resulted in hazardous asbestos releases while visiting state environmental regulators in Chattanooga.

The Tennessee Valley Authority, recognizing the difficulty of producing nuclear power for a population skittish after Japan’s 2011 reactor disaster and increasingly wary of the dangers, is taking steps to “demystify” the process.

Eva Pate, the majority owner of Pates Hauling and Demolition, said she looked at white material all over the ground and swaying in the breeze on an unstable wall still standing at the recently demolished old Standard Coosa Thatcher site.

Testimony in the trial of three men and two companies facing federal charges of violating the asbestos removal laws shows three companies bid on the work, but none were hired.

If Taft Youth Development Center is closed, Juvenile Court judges and East Tennessee lawmakers are worried not only for its teenage inmates, but also for the more vulnerable residents at the other facilities where Taft's "worst of the worst" may be sent.

One man's loss became preservation's gain this week when land parcels once valued at $250,000 in the Preserve in Rising Fawn were sold for as little as $3,000 to the Georgia Land Trust.

Nuclear regulators appear to be edging closer to cracking down on how nuclear power plants store about 3,300 metric tons of spent fuel in the Chattanooga region, and a local anti-nuclear group is claiming at least some of the credit.

PIKEVILLE, Tenn. — About 250 people packed a Bledsoe County courtroom Tuesday night to protest the proposed closing of Taft Youth Development Center -- the main destination for many of Hamilton County and Southeast Tennessee's youthful offenders.

Hoping to make ends meet, or at least come closer, Murray County, Ga., Commissioner Greg Hogan has told the county's 240 full-time workers they won't be paid for eight of their 11 holidays next year.

After an hours-long chase Wednesday involving three stolen vehicles, Sequatchie authorities began piecing together a crime spree of burglaries, larcenies, forgeries and car thefts that spans at least two state lines and several counties in the region.

A former nuclear regulator, an economic analyst and a congressional think-tank adviser say 2011 marked the fall of the so-called U.S. nuclear renaissance, despite regulators' approval last week of a new reactor design.

Help may be on the way against a fungus that already has killed millions of mosquito-eating and beetle-chomping bats in the Northeast and now is threatening Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, according to wildlife officials.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has extended the public comment period on its preliminary finding that there are no environmental impacts to stop an operating license for the under-construction Watts Bar 2 reactor near Spring City, Tenn.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has extended the public comment period on its preliminary finding that there are no environmental impacts to stop an operating license for the under-construction Watts Bar 2 reactor near Spring City, Tenn.

Extreme. It's the only word that does justice to this year's wacky tri-state weather. This year saw a dozen tornadoes in Hamilton County alone -- 10 in a single April day.

This year, Tennessee has an extra $5.25 million to spend on clean energy and environmental projects that clear the air.

TVA will complete the teardown of the Watts Bar coal plant near Spring City, Tenn., today.

TVA's chief operating officer and No. 2 man announced Wednesday that he will retire on June 30.

TVA’s chief operating officer and No. 2 man, 60-year-old William R. “Bill” McCollum Jr., announced he will retire on June 30.

TVA's nuclear troubles seem to be mounting.

Tennessee Valley Authority officials have reported finding elevated levels of tritium in a groundwater sample taken from a monitoring well at the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant.

As TVA scrambles to repair recent safety concerns, Nuclear Regulatory Commission records show that Bellefonte’s construction license didn’t have full NRC support when the federal regulator’s commission members approved the 37-year-old lapsed license several months ago.

A lone, rare hooded crane has been spotted at the Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge just north of Birchwood, Tenn. The graceful bird -- one of fewer than 10,000 left in the world -- is a long way from home: Its normal breeding ground is southeastern Russia and northern China.

Federal regulators have given Sequoyah Nuclear Plant a "white" safety finding -- the first level of safety concerns that triggers stepped up federal inspections.

TVA is sending out its 2012 Sequoyah calendar -- a yearly packet of pretty pictures and important emergency information about how to protect yourself in the event of a nuclear accident at Sequoyah Nuclear Plant in Soddy-Daisy.

Imagine strobing streetlights warning you that a tornado is bearing down on Chattanooga. Think about those lights flashing in waves to signal the proper direction of an evacuation route in the event of a nuclear or hazardous materials alert.

Chattanooga's City Council building is expected to be sprouting a new kind of green image in coming months when an old roof is exchanged for a garden.

A handful of anti-nuclear activists told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Thursday that they didn't expect anything they said to sway the federal regulator from licensing a second reactor at the Watts

For emergency medical technicians, delivering a baby is all in a week's work.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is seeking public comments on its preliminary finding that there are no environmental impacts that would preclude issuing an operating license for the Watts Bar 2 reactor being built near Spring City, Tenn.

Chattanoogan Dobbin Callahan is a hotel consultant who helps hospitality companies recycle barely used soap to help in needy, Third World countries.

Chattanooga could shave $1.5 million a year from its $11.4 million electric bill by expanding the new lighting system at Coolidge Park to the rest of the city, according to a city energy audit.

A name change and reorganization of the governing boards of Reflection Riding Arboretum and the Chattanooga Nature Center last July have members of Reflection Riding's founding family upset.

Snow fell this morning on mountaintops in the Chattanooga area.