Chattanoogans have paid more than $80 million in stormwater fees over the past 16 years, but state and federal regulators say the city is still awash in pollution problems from rainwater runoff.

Nancy Bennett said she had no idea the city would use her place of business on Old Lee Highway as a prime example of how costs could be cut through the city's water quality credits program.

The state of Tennessee has ordered Chattanooga to boost its staff and spend more money on stormwater and water quality programs to correct deficiencies that date back more than a decade.

For the first time since the Tennessee Valley Authority revamped its top management about three years ago, the federal utility didn’t give pay raises or performance bonuses to its top managers this year.

Chattanoogans facing higher rates for sewer charges, stormwater fees and natural gas prices this fall are getting some relief from another utility.

Higher electricity prices may have squeezed recession-weary consumers in the past two years, but the higher TVA rates are helping to funnel more money into state and local government coffers.

The average Chattanooga homeowner will save about $5.50 in December due to the latest monthly drop in TVA’s fuel cost adjustment.

TVA’s tax-equivalent payments to state and local governments are projected to increase to a record $538 million.

The executives of the Tennessee Valley Authority didn’t get a pay raise or any bonuses this year, utility officials said today.

Chattanooga's economic recovery could be fueled, in part, by nuclear power, the Chattanooga Manufacturers Association was told Wednesday.

Former state Rep. David Copeland was presented the top award today from the Chattanooga Manufacturers Association for his lifetime of political and business support of business and manufacturing.

More than 430 TVA employees and contractors are working around the clock to fill and ship more than 85 rail cars a day of sludgy coal ash from the Kingston Fossil Plant spill, TVA officials said Monday.

The Tennessee Valley Authority could cut both its costs and pollution by replacing its oldest coal plants with gas-fired power purchased from other companies, an independent power producer told a TVA study group Monday.

Nearly four decades after the Tennessee Valley Authority decided to put a nuclear power plant in Northeast Alabama, directors of the federal utility will decide what type of reactor, if any, will be built there.

Paul and Dristin Gardner remember waking up last year to the sound and smell of sewage overflowing from the toilet into their Lookout Mountain, Ga., home.

TVA's Brown Ferry Nuclear Plant, site of a 1975 fire that was one of the industry's worst accidents, still is in violation of fire safety standards, according to a Nuclear Regulatory Commission letter released Wednesday.

TVA contractors have dug up and hauled away half the coal residue that spilled into the Emory River last December from a ruptured ash pond at the Kingston Fossil Plant.

TVA contractors have dug up and hauled away half the coal residue that spilled into the Emory River last December from a ruptured ash pond at the Kingston Fossil Plant.

Buoyed by the $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers, Chattanooga house sales improved this summer from springtime levels and helped limit the 3-year-old drop in home prices, according to reports released Tuesday by local and national Realtor groups.

The median price of homes sold this summer in Chattanooga fell by 6.5 percent from a year ago.

Chattanoogans will have to pay more than $100 million in extra fees over the next five years to fix decades-old problems with clogged ditches, broken pipes and polluted runoff.

In Hamilton County, churches, schools and government agencies don’t pay the stormwater fee on their buildings and parking lots.

The tax man is looking for more than 6,200 workers in Tennessee and Georgia.

Every day, more than 7,000 Americans turn 65.

Thirty-one years after she graduated from high school, Angela Flynn is back in school as the only woman and the oldest student in her welding class at the Chattanooga State campus in Kimball, Tenn.

Tennessee is getting another $12.1 million in federal funds to help workers who lost their jobs due to foreign trade or competition.

Home foreclosures continued to rise this summer in the Chattanooga area, according to a new report.

EPB’s expansion from electricity to television is sparking questions over why the city-owned utility is marketing naughty movies.

The city of Dalton is saving nearly $11,000 this year because no one wants to challenge the City Council and school board members up for re-election.

The Davidson County Republican Party voted Tuesday to remove First Vice Chairman Matt Collins, a vocal critic of gubernatorial candidates U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn., and Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam, from his position on the party's executive committee.

Local businesses, on average, generate about 2 percent more in taxes for Hamilton County than out-of-town contractors hired to do the same work, according to an economic study released Friday.

Contracts awarded to local bidders generate 2 percent more in city and county tax revenues than contracts given to non-local contractors, according to a University of Tennessee at Chattanooga study released today.

Moody’s Investors Service has affirmed its bond rating for Erlanger Hospital and upgraded its future outlook for Chattanooga’s biggest hospital as it prepares to refinance $124.8 million of debt next month.

EPB will receive one of the largest federal grants of its kind in the country to help make Chattanooga a national leader in building a smarter and more efficient electric system.

EPB will receive $111 million in federal stimulus funding to help deploy smart meters throughout its service territory.

While most of its lawmakers didn’t vote for the stimulus package, Tennessee still is among the top states in jobs generated through stimulus-funded federal contracts, according to an early report on the program’s progress.

RINGGOLD, Ga. — As the fastest-growing county in Northwest Georgia, Catoosa County could pick up more than 10,000 residents in next year’s census compared with the 2000 population count.

As the city treasurer for 44 years, Carl Levi figured the county trustee couldn’t save the city any money collecting property taxes and delinquent taxes for Chattanooga.

In its first five weeks of residential service, EPB's fiber optic service attracted more than 1,000 subscribers.

When the Tennessee Valley Authority adopted its last strategic plan in the spring of 2008, agency directors wanted to build at least three more nuclear reactors and buy several more gas-fired generators by 2020 to keep pace with the growing demand for electricity.

Unemployment fell last month across the Chattanooga region as employment bounced back with the start of fall classes and some discouraged jobless workers dropped out of the labor market.

The Tennessee Valley Authority, created 76 years ago to harness the power of the Tennessee River, announced Thursday that it will use the wind to generate more of its power by 2012.

Unemployment in metropolitan Chattanooga fell last month by 0.6 percent to its lowest level since April, the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development said today.

The Tennessee Valley Authority is turning to wind generators in the Dakotas to boost its renewable energy portfolio.

Georgia was listed among the worst in the nation for energy efficiency, while Tennesseans are turning greener, according to a study released Wednesday.

When Phyllis Powell graduated from high school in Trenton, Ga., in 1976, she didn't have far to travel to land her first job.

As Chattanoogans shivered through near-freezing temperatures Monday, TVA offered another reprieve from last year’s record jump in electricity prices to help warm the pocketbooks of its customers.

For the fifth time this year, the Tennessee Valley Authority will cut its electricity rates due to declining fuel costs.

As prosecutors scurry to complete plea agreements and set hearing dates for the last of the hundreds of criminal cases heard during the week, Judge Bob Moon complains that his staff is exhausted and already 10 minutes past the court’s normal noon closing time.

Piles of arrest warrants lie on the assistant district attorneys’ table at 8:30 a.m. in General Sessions Court. Defendants, witnesses and friends in the foreground of the courtroom cram themselves into the churchlike pews. People in the large hallway outside are just trying to figure out where to go.