At a glance, it seemed like a Southern pandemic success story in a most unlikely place.

Three doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine offer strong protection for children younger than 5, the company announced Monday. Pfizer plans to give the data to U.S. regulators later this week in a step toward letting the littlest kids get the shots.

The COVID-19 pandemic is "most certainly not over," the head of the World Health Organization warned Sunday, despite a decline in reported cases since the peak of the omicron wave. He told governments that "we lower our guard at our peril."

Kids ages 5 to 11 should get a booster dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, advisers to the U.S. government said Thursday.

Wednesday storms didn't stop roughly 150 people from rallying to protest the potential for a Chattanooga-based competitor to appeal state approval for CHI Memorial Georgia's new hospital in Catoosa County.

Despite a Tennessee Supreme Court ruling in favor of Gov. Bill Lee's education savings accounts, the program is far from taking effect as it faces a winding path through litigation and, potentially, legislative resistance.

A former Dunlap, Tennessee, police officer faces charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and official misconduct after the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation began probing allegations the officer used excessive force during a man's arrest in February.

Wednesday storms didn't stop roughly 150 people from rallying to protest the potential for a Chattanooga-based competitor to appeal state approval for CHI Memorial Georgia's new hospital in Catoosa County.

One of the largest new apartment complexes in the Brainerd area in years is planned for a 42-acre tract to meet what an official said is a need for more multifamily housing in that part of Chattanooga.

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Memorial Day weekend serves as the kickoff for several events around the Chattanooga area, including Nightfall, Soak Ya, Nooga Splash and Summer Music Weekends at Rock City.

Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has voluntarily entered a rehabilitation program, forcing the Boston-based rock band to cancel the first portion of its upcoming Las Vegas residency.

Former reality TV star Josh Duggar was sentenced Wednesday to about 12 1/2 years in prison after he was convicted of receiving and possessing child pornography.

Despite being on different fields against different teams in different divisions, Baylor and Boyd-Buchanan found themselves in almost identical matches in the boys' soccer state semifinals Wednesday at the TSSAA Spring Fling.

Top-ranked Tennessee has won nearly 90% of its baseball games this season, but the Volunteers are no match for Mother Nature.

Awarded a No. 1 national ranking earlier this year, the McCallie tennis team could have shied away from the lofty label. Instead, the Blue Tornado embraced it all season.

Time and again, we've written with regret about Tennessee's seemingly inexorable roll toward charter schools and school vouchers, which we generally see as siphons of money away from struggling public schools. Not today.

The drumbeat for educational choice is getting louder, and it can't happen fast enough. Especially for minority communities.

Thanks to former President Donald Trump, now any election where somebody loses, they've decided that it must have been rigged.