Spring City News

General Shale Brick Inc., which closed its production plant on Riverside Drive in 2007, will open a showroom and distribution center in West Knoxville on Dec.

The Tennessee Beef Industry Council, based in Murfreesboro, has announced its newly elected officers for the 2009-10 fiscal year.

After several aborted attempts during the past 50 years, Thailand is on the brink of launching a nuclear-power programme.

Tennessee Valley Theatre in Spring City will present Carrie Hassler & Hard Rain on Saturday, Nov.

SPRING CITY, Tenn. a 'A The General Shale plant that opened in August will lay off 19 employees as of Oct.

The festival vendors have been a part of every Foothills Fall Festival except for one, and Saturday's gradually dropping temperatures were the coldest they could remember -- which deterred sales of the ice cream they advertised on their marquee.

Roane County can expect another $400,000 or so in impact payments from TVA, the agency has announced.

Team Goodwill pro Wesley Strader of Spring City, Tenn., won the Walmart Bass Fishing League Volunteer Division two-day Super Tournament on Watts Bar Lake Sunday with a two-day total of 10 bass weighing 35 pounds, 10 ounces.

A Rhea County woman suffered a serious injury to her leg in a four-wheeler crash that occurred Sept.

A Knox County developer is suing TVA for $17 million in what appears to be the first lawsuit filed by a business in connection with the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant coal ash spill.

Staff Photo by Dan Henry Greg Poe examines an area in the containment building that will be inaccessible after the plant moves online as construction continues on TVA's Unit 2 reactor at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant near Spring City, Tenn.

Submitted by Amanda Odom on August 19, 2009 - 6:24pm. Business News Community Rhea County News A A A A Some good economic news comes out of Rhea County.

Submitted by WDEF on July 20, 2009 - 1:26pm. Meigs County News Rhea County News A An advisory subcommittee of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has scheduled two meetings in late July in Tennessee and in Atlanta.

Five environmental groups petitioned federal regulators Wednesday to block the only commercial nuclear reactor now under construction in the United States an unfinished 1970s-era reactor the Tennessee Valley Authority is working to complete after three decades in mothballs.

The U.S. Geological Survey confirms a small earthquake rocked East Tennessee on Sunday morning.