Hamilton County Schools received a $10,000 grant to fund programs in 10 public high schools. Funding came from The Pantry Inc., which owns about 1,600 convenience stores, primarily under the Kangaroo Express banner.
An 18-month saga for Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield may have ended Friday. Standing inside a Hamilton County courtroom, Littlefield said that, for the remaining 14 months of his administration, “we’re going to keep doing the business of the city.”
A judge invoked a decision he made more than a year ago -- later overturned by a higher court -- to stop the recall election of Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield for a second time.
Judge Jeff Hollingsworth has ruled that the August recall election of Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield will be stopped.
Hamilton County Circuit Court Judge Jeff Hollingsworth is expected to announce his ruling about 1 p.m. today in the recall case against Mayor Ron Littlefield.
A group responsible for forcing a scheduled recall election of Mayor Ron Littlefield has intervened in the case and will be allowed to participate in a hearing set for Friday.
A group responsible for forcing a scheduled recall election of Mayor Ron Littlefield will try to intervene in the case.
Barbara Ensign and her family are avid recyclers. Sorting what plastics go into the trash and what goes into recycling has turned into a family activity, she said.
Greta Hayes, the city's recreation director, said Tuesday the city is trying to find a way to compensate a tennis professional who came under fire recently for his management of the Champions Club.
Chattanooga’s recreation director said today the city is trying to work out a contract in which a professional tennis professional at the Champion’s Club could still receive extra compensation.
Orange and white cones line the intersection of Shallowford and Jenkins roads, and a "road closed" sign blocks the end of Morris Hill Springs Road.
The word has been out there for more than a decade, whispered in some political circles, discussed frankly inside police patrol cars, shouted from some church pulpits.
More and more government offices and services are moving into the old Farmers' Market and the area around it, and city officials say a plan for one-stop shopping for the homeless is still on track.
"Gangs are in Chattanooga. Gangs are killing people in Chattanooga. Gangs are overrunning some Chattanooga neighborhoods."
Potential candidates in Chattanooga's mayoral recall election in August are mostly taking a wait-and-see approach as the issue moves to a court hearing next week.
Construction is under way on a $4.1 million facility that will house a city employee health and wellness health clinic and pharmacy.
Chattanooga officials broke ground this morning on a $4.1 million health and wellness center on 11th Street to serve city employees.
Parks and Recreation officials want to keep a Champions Club tennis professional on staff to manage the facility.
A City Council meeting Tuesday to investigate a city contract quickly turned into a debate on the legitimacy of the meeting.
Several Chattanooga City Council members questioned today the need for a public hearing on contracts with Excalibur Integrated Systems after they said agreements were about minor issues.
The city's new library director will receive 44 percent more pay than the old director and make more than the city's police chief and fire chief, records show.
The Chattanooga City Council will investigate whether an $800,000 contract was awarded improperly to a friend of the city's chief of staff.
The City Council decided Tuesday night that Chattanooga would join the lawsuit involving a potential recall of Mayor Ron Littlefield.
The City Council has decided it will allocate $75,000 to a joint partnership between the Urban League of Greater Chattanooga and the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce.
A judge struck down several motions Monday over the recall election of Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield.
The final battle over Chattanooga's annexation effort, which started more than two years ago, finally will go to court on June 19.
The city attorney will investigate a city-owned tennis club after an audit found its managers were operating it as a for-profit business and using city employees to help run it.
Mayor Ron Littlefield, along with members of a gang task force, will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. Monday to talk about gang initiatives that could change state law.
A proposed downtown Chattanooga apartment complex faces problems as developers try to find tenant parking.
Billboards are popping up alongside a new but unopened stretch of Volkswagen Drive and Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield says the city's plan for a "scenic corridor" has been "degraded."
The landmark Chattanooga Bank Building downtown will be transformed into a 74-unit apartment complex after the City Council approved a tax break for the developers.
The City Council is set to vote tonight on whether it will give a 12-year tax abatement to a 74-room, 12-story apartment complex in downtown Chattanooga.
The Tennessee General Assembly's new redistricting plans for state and congressional seats clean up gerrymandering the Democrats have engineered for the last 100 years they were in control, state Senate Pro Tempore Bo Watson, R-Hixson, said Monday.
Senate Speaker Pro Tempore Bo Watson, R-Hixson, said today that Republicans’ efforts in redistricting was fair and legal.
A $4.1 million health and wellness center for Chattanooga employees should be completed by October, officials said. The facility will include a pharmacy, doctors' offices and a fitness center.
Girlfriends, burgers and Coldplay were among the topics local alternative weekly The Pulse posed to Chattanooga's youngest-ever congressional candidate last week.
The Public Library has a new executive director. Corinne Hill, interim director of the Dallas Public Library in Texas, has accepted a position as the permanent executive director at the Public Library.
The Public Library board voted 5-0 today to offer the position of executive director to Corinne Hill, interim director of the Dallas Public Library in Texas.
A debate flared up in the Hamilton County Election Commission on Wednesday morning when one commissioner accused the body and its attorney of stepping over its boundaries by naming the state attorney general in a lawsuit.
The Hamilton County Election Commission approved the actions of its attorney this morning as he attempts to defend the panel against a mayoral lawsuit.
Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield suffered two defeats Tuesday night when the City Council decided he could not have $75,000 for a gang study and also that he would have to wait six months to hire an administrative hearing officer.
The Chattanooga City Council today decided it would not redirect any of the $75,000 earmarked for minority business development toward a study of gangs in Chattanooga.
The new coordinator of a mayoral initiative to combat gangs urged City Council members Monday to spend $75,000 on a study of the problem.
Chattanooga City Council members are getting more understanding of two new hires for an initiative against youth violence, just days after Mayor Ron Littlefield introduced them in a council committee meeting.
Three people picked up petitions Friday morning to run in a Chattanooga mayoral recall election slated for Aug. 2.
Three Chattanooga residents picked up petitions early this morning to run for a mayoral recall election in August.
Circuit Court Judge Jeff Hollingsworth is expected to issue an order today delaying a hearing on the recall of Mayor Ron Littlefield just as candidates can begin picking up qualifying petitions.
A group of local businessmen have expressed their distaste of the recall effort against Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield on the eve of petitions being made available to candidates who want to replace him.
The judge who ruled in favor of Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield in his battle to stave off a recall vote will hear the case again.
Mayor Ron Littlefield said Tuesday he plans to address gang problems by hiring two new staff members to head an initiative to address youth violence.
