Coinciding with Earth Day on Tuesday, Murray Electric System unveiled a new bench in Renaissance Park with solar panels that ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is holding two public meetings in Oak Ridge on May 6 to discuss the agency's process for ...

A decade after an oil spill in their community, Keith and Sue Havens discovered the same operator would build a gas pipeline for TVA near them.

The advanced small modular reactor (SMR) project at the Clinch River Nuclear site in Oak Ridge is moving forward ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority has recently released a request for proposals from power producers who can readily provide 50 to 1,000 megawatts of electricity to reach its goal ...

T he U.S. Department of Energy has put US $900 million on the table to push small modular reactors (SMRs) from design to ...

Victor Ashe writes about Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty's puzzling praise for TVA board firings and praises Tim Burchett ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The bottle of Jameson Irish Whiskey on the counter was a birthday gift from one of his 10 children. It'll last Frank Fogarty, a one-drink kind of guy, a while.He's someone who's made a habit of making ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Unit 2 safely began a scheduled refueling and maintenance outage last week after generating more than 14.0 billion kilowatt-hours ...

TVA has long said it would close all coal plants by 2035, but is reviewing an executive order aimed at reviving the dying ...

The first miter gate piece is assembled on the downstream side of Chickamauga Lock in Chattanooga, Tenn., on April 7, 2025.