Tennessee River

Touting Huntsville as a championship city with a long list of wins during his tenure, Mayor Tommy Battle delivered his 16th State of the City address on Tuesday, Sept. 10 at the Von Braun Center’s Saturn Ballroom.

The Tennessee Valley Authority is marking 50 years in service of the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant located in Athens. On August 1, 1974, Browns Ferry Unit 1 began commercial operation. It's TVA’s largest generating asset and the third-largest nuclear power producer in the United States.

An environmental nonprofit is making strides in protecting a waterway that stretches into Alabama. Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful is celebrating as successful 2023 with record breaks and new milestones, including 218,729 pounds of trash removed from the Tennessee River. Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful is an affiliate of the Keep America Beautiful organization, the first to focus solely on a river.

The Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful cleanup series is making its way to Alabama. Volunteers have the opportunity to help beautify Wheeler Lake in Decatur on Sunday, October 29. The body of water is the second-largest lake on the Tennessee River in northern Alabama.

Northwest Alabama officials have reopened a beach along the Tennessee River after they closed it when diesel spilled into the river from a sunken tugboat.

A federal grand jury has subpoenaed 3M in connection to discharges from a chemical plant in northern Alabama. WHNT-TV reports the discharges may not have…

The Tennessee Valley Authority says the road across a north Alabama dam will be closed for as long as 10 months. The federal utility says crews are…

An Alabama utility company has disclosed that more than 800,000 gallons of untreated sewage spilled from a plant during a storm, eventually reaching the…

SCOTTSBORO, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say a Tennessee man died when his canoe capsized on an Alabama river.News outlets report that the accident occurred…

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey says the state's environmental agency needs to do a better job responding to chemical releases into the…