Douglas Dam was spilling a record amount of water, 450,000 gallons a second. The Nolichucky Dam withstood twice the water flow of Niagara Falls.

TVA's system of dams along the Tennessee River and its tributaries has been tested by record flooding from Hurricane Helene, ...

The literal floodgates are open all along the Tennessee River as it moves Helene's floodwater from the Smokies to the Ohio River.

If you want to know why the United States can’t build things anymore, the National Environmental Policy Act is a big part of the answer.

Hurricane Helene, a powerful Category 4 storm when it made landfall, carved out a devastating path from Florida’s Gulf Coast ...

Still, political forces in Congress exempted the Tellico Dam from compliance with environmental laws by attaching a rider to the energy and water appropriations bill. Even though he opposed the ...

With the help of countless resources from across county and state lines, first responders in Unicoi County have been able to find a majority of the 33 people who were unaccounted for the afternoon of ...

This obliged federal agencies to stop work on the Tennessee Valley Authority’s nearly finished Tellico Dam — a requirement that the Supreme Court upheld in 1978. Congress eventually had to ...

who sought to protect the fish and its free-flowing habitat in the Little Tennessee River from construction of the controversial Tellico Dam. The dam was halted for two years, but political forces in ...

At least 22 deaths have been reported and millions are without power in six states as Helene makes its way inland.

Officials in East Tennessee communities were sharing updates over the weekend as the impacts and damage from Friday’s ...

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