As he prepares to make the first full-fledged overhaul to Tennessee license tags in nearly 16 years, Gov. Bill Lee is asking residents to "rate the plates" of his administration's four proposed redesigns.

The trial of Janet Hinds, the woman who allegedly struck and killed Chattanooga police officer Nicholas Galinger with her car and fled the scene in 2019, began Monday before Hamilton County Criminal Court Judge Don Poole.

The proportion of serious and fatal COVID-19 infections among vaccinated Tennesseans is growing, but experts caution against using data on "breakthrough" infections - which occur when fully vaccinated people are infected by the coronavirus - to draw broad conclusions about vaccine efficacy.

Developers who have adapted historic buildings in Chattanooga and Cleveland, Tennessee, for modern uses have each been awarded $300,000 in state grants under a new $4.8 million program established by state lawmakers earlier this year to encourage the preservation and continued use of such properties.

In anticipation of a federal mandate for large employers to have their workers vaccinated or regularly tested for the COVID-19 virus, Chattanooga-based Unum will soon launch a vaccine verifier.

Hamilton County commissioners will begin the redistricting process Wednesday, as they are required to do every decade.

Saying the nation pledged 20 years ago that "we would never forget" the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the country, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., believes Congress needs to stand by that promise by making the date a legal public holiday.

A shooting Saturday in the Mount Verd community of McMinn County, Tennessee, claimed the life of a 54-year-old woman and left a 31-year-old man hospitalized.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to recommend vaccination against COVID-19 for all people 12 years old and older, including for those who have previously contracted the virus.

An elderly resident of Dalton, Georgia, is dead after a fire at a home on Riverbend Road, according to a news release.

Heavy rains in Chattanooga on Sunday flooded some low-lying streets in the area and prompted a flash flood warning Monday for parts of southwest Hamilton County as more rain drenched parts of the region.

More than 115 years after an angry mob lynched Ed Johnson from the Walnut Street Bridge, area residents got their first look Sunday at the memorial to the innocent man and his two courageous attorneys.

Catoosa County Public Schools Superintendent Denia Reese has announced she will retire this school year after 16 years in the position.

Hamilton County District Attorney Neal Pinkston has now moved both his wife and brother-in-law to the county's payroll instead of the state payroll amid concerns about a law against nepotism among state employees.

Michael Brown was just 8 years old in 2005 when the curtain dropped on the most recent Chattanooga Air Show.

Sale Creek Middle/High School senior Banks Shaw and 2021 graduate Gage King received $239,000 in scholarship offers from three universities after winning the Mossy Oak Fishing Bassmaster High School National Championship in July.

Tennessee lawmakers are eyeing modest tweaks to the state's privatized bail bond system, where lawsuits and data show poorer people charged even with nonviolent crimes often can't afford to get out of jail before their cases are heard — despite a justice system that allows for pre-trial release of detainees presumed innocent after being assessed for risk.

The Creative Arts Guild's 58th Annual Festival of Fine Arts and Crafts continues on Sunday and features live music, a children's area, food vendors, an art gallery and art for sale.

Chattanooga police have suspended an investigation into a man's viral claim that he was assaulted last weekend by a group of teenagers in an alleged "gang initiation" due to inconsistencies in the man's story and a lack of cooperation from him.

Donivan Brown spent recent months visiting various monuments across the United States — the ones that memorialize the nation's most heroic moments, the ones that acknowledge its dark past.

A portion of the Lucey Boiler Co. property on South Holtzclaw Avenue in downtown Chattanooga is the new site for the historic restoration of a 102-year-old steam locomotive from Florida.

The Walker County Planning Commission has voted unanimously to recommend denial of a rezoning request for the Gateway at Rossville affordable workforce housing development.

Wahid Dorany, an Afghan American and Chattanooga area resident, is awaiting the day that his parents, wife and two siblings can join him after he helped facilitate their evacuation from Afghanistan.