The project comes after an ash pond’s dyke burst at a TVA plant in Kingston in 2008, spilling millions of cubic yards of ash into a nearby river.

Nashville-based Pinnacle Financial is reporting steep second quarter losses.

When the Cumberland River crested 12 feet above flood stage in May, the water ate away at the riverbank, taking with it trees, soil, sediment—and the artifacts and fossils embedded in the dirt. Now, a team of scientists is surveying valuable archaeological sites all along the Cumberland for damage, both natural and man-made. WPLN’s Emily Tseng reports.

About a hundred firefighters and other workers responded to a massive blaze this afternoon in a residential area in north Nashville.

Several Tennessee lawmakers will take a trip later this month to visit peers in Arizona, in hopes of emulating that state’s controversial new immigration law. But Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen says immigration suffers when it’s used as a quote “political football.”

State officials are warning the families of Tennessee students to brace themselves for higher standards in testing early this fall. They’re traveling the state this week to say despite tougher scoring, students aren’t actually backsliding.

Improvised explosive devices have taken the lives of three Fort Campbell soldiers in separate attacks in Afghanistan.

The former U.S. education secretary says Tennessee should expect some results from new Race to the Top programs within the next year or two. The state is receiving half a billion federal dollars to spend on classroom innovation over the next several years.

Governor Phil Bredesen says Tennessee could’ve created more jobs if it had been given a freer hand in spending federal stimulus dollars. He says federal rules dictating where and how to spend most of the money made it hard for the state to get the best bang for its buck.

Close to 700 Tennessee National Guard soldiers return home this week.