Major McCollough, Moccasin Bend preservationist, dead at 83
Chattanooga's Moccasin Bend has lost one of its most stalwart champions.

Chattanooga's Moccasin Bend has lost one of its most stalwart champions.

Resurfacing operations will create traffic snarls this week on almost 7 miles of Lee Highway in Bradley County near the Hamilton County line.

The number of big rigs on the road will likely decline leading into summer as President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs on foreign trade take hold, according to an area trucking industry expert.

Length of delay unknown

The Interstate 75 half of the $161 million Interstate 24/I-75 interchange improvement project at the Tennessee-Georgia line is behind schedule, while the I-24 portion is on track for a 2025 finish.

After 10 structure fires in about as many months, the TBI is seeking information in an ongoing probe into blazes believed to have been intentionally set around the town of Palmer, Tennessee, in Grundy County.

Project to finish by Aug. 30

Conservationists and supporters of Southern Appalachia's Benton MacKaye Trail hope the third time's a charm for a bipartisan congressional bill seeking a designation for the footpath as the 12th National Scenic Trail in the U.S.

The week of April 21-25 is Work Zone Awareness Week in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, when drivers are reminded to watch for work zone speed limits and to move over or slow down when encountering emergency or utility vehicles on the roadside.

A 19-year prison sentence ordered in 2015 for a Bledsoe County man has been reinstated after an appeals court reversed 2023 findings by a post-conviction court that a witness statement wasn't provided at the man's plea hearing.
