Kentucky Financial News
TVA sees future after 75 years
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The 652-mile Tennessee River has been tamed, dammed for power and flood control, and made navigable. The 80,000-square-mile Tennessee Valley has been electrified.
Coal region county mulls unthinkable: switch to gas
POTTSVILLE, Pa. -- Hard coal built this area of eastern Pennsylvania into an economic powerhouse in the 1800s and early 1900s, and helped fuel the nation's industrial revolution.
Workers, Ky. officials face uncertainty over GE operation
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- They hung on during years of downsizing, but now the few thousand people working at GE's sprawling Appliance Park face even greater uncertainty with the company's...
Kentucky officials react to GE's plans
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- State and local officials are planning to stake out a role as General Electric pursues a sale or spin off of its vast appliance business headquartered in Louisville.
GE plans to exit appliance business
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- General Electric Co. said Friday that it plans to sell or spin off its iconic appliance business that for a century sold refrigerators, air conditioners and ovens...