Alcoa News

A proposed 2014 budget that includes no tax increase and provides for a one-step merit pay increase for employees was presented by staff to Alcoa City Commission Friday morning.

The Powerball jackpot hits a record high of $600 million and it could go even higher.

The Powerball jackpot hits a record high of $600 million and it could go even higher.

THE DAILY TIMES A Knoxville Area Transit bus travels down Merchant Drive in Knoxville.

The personnel file of a University of Tennessee administrator fired this week provided new insight into the woman at the middle of the scandal.

B&W Y-12's direct-hire construction team has been recognized for more than 1 million hours worked without a lost-time accident and zero recordable injuries for 2012.

Featuring an indoor pool and an expanded continental breakfast, this Alcoa hotel is less than 2 miles from I-140 and offers free shuttle service from the neighboring McGhee Tyson Airport.

A motorcycle accident Thursday afternoon on South Calderwood Street between Bessemer and Joule Streets sent one man to the hospital.

Ringler, who will join Alcoa on June 1, has been a Deputy General Counsel of Xylem Inc., a global water technology company that was spun off from ITT Corporation in 2011.

THE DAILY TIMES James A. Triplett testifies during the trial of Jan Michelle Ell in Blount County Circuit Court Tuesday afternoon.

In this 2007 file photo, a Holston Gases tanker is pictured at the company's facility on the Tennessee River.

BYD will begin making electric buses at large-scale batteries at two manufacturing facilities in Lancaster, Calif., the company says.

Photo by CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Maryville High School Senior William Hime interned in the Alcoa Public Works Department.

Blount County's population growth is causing it to lose the public transportation services provided by the East Tennessee Human Resources Agency.

Top 20 schools: Oak Ridge High School was ranked sixth-best academically in Tennessee according to U.S. News & World Report in an online evaluation.

A New Hampshire investment firm is challenging Alcoa Inc.'s bid for a new federal license to operate dams along one of North Carolina's largest rivers, demanding that federal regulators recognize circumstances have changed since the relicensing process started more than a decade ago.

Alcoa will invest $275 million over the next three years to expand and convert capacity at its rolling mill in Alcoa, Tenn., to support automotive producers' plans to use more aluminum sheet.

Blount County citizens will vote June 11 in a special election whether to levy a $35 wheel tax on automobiles to help plug a Blount County Schools budget shortfall for fiscal 2013-14. If passed, the wheel tax would generate an estimated $4.2 million.

A Murfreesboro woman faces several charges including assaulting a police sergeant after she was arrested for driving under the influence early Wednesday morning.

A $275 million investment by Alcoa in its Blount County rolling mill operations will add 200 permanent full-time jobs in the next three years.