Emergency personnel responded to a possible drowning in Lenoir City on Thursday evening. Emergency crews were dispatched to ...

The body of a drowning victim was recovered from Tellico Reservoir in Lenoir City late Thursday, a Tennessee Wildlife ...

More Valentine Chapuis/Getty Images The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) began building the Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River in 1967. In 1973, during construction, a group of University ...

"He just meant the world to so many people," Carnock said at Tellico Dam on Saturday. "It's been about two and a half weeks of total heartache. We know that dad's at peace now, but the family is ...

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 ...

The darter's discovery, and rarity, was seized upon by opponents of the TVA's proposed Tellico Dam as a way to stop the Tennessee project. The resulting litigation went all the way up to the ...

Instead, Near and his co-authors argue, the tiny fish known as Percina tanasi that embodied a David and Goliath battle against the Tellico Dam is an eastern population of the stargazing darter.

Emergency crews were dispatched to the Tellico Dam Boat Ramp at approximately 8 p.m. for a possible drowning incident.