Chattanooga police are investigating a shooting that happened Sunday afternoon on Wilson Road.

Collegedale city commissioners were unaware that the city's police department had entered into an agreement with the Tennessee Department of Health to receive the names and addresses of residents who test positive for COVID-19.

A 23-year-old man drowned at Little River Canyon in Fort Payne, Alabama, Sunday afternoon, according to a news release from the National Park Service.

A CoreCivic employee who works at the Silverdale Detention Center in Chattanooga tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, according to the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office.

The Hamilton County Health Department announced 74 new people with COVID-19 Sunday, marking the largest single-day increase since the pandemic began and the fifth time the largest single-day increase happened in May.

As Tennessee lawmakers trickle back to the state Capitol Tuesday to resume their session, the primary order of business is grappling with a projected coronavirus-created state revenue shortfall that will dictate spending cuts in both the current budget and the new one taking effect July 1.

Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke is urging city residents to continue social distancing as data shows suburban areas are nearing pre-coronavirus traffic levels.

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Tennessee increased to 20,145 on Sunday, up 356 from Saturday's total of 19,789, according to the Tennessee Department of Health's daily virus update.

The Chattanooga Market returned this Sunday, at the First Horizon Pavilion, in it's COVID-19 pandemic manifestation as the Chattanooga Essentials Market. The market took steeps to keep patrons and vendors safe.

East Brainerd Elementary students won't be returning to their tornado-ravaged school building this August — instead, they're going to middle school.

UPDATE: Chattanooga police have located the 15-year-old runaway reported missing on Friday, May 22.

A group of local public health leaders sat around a picnic table at the Avondale Youth and Family Development Center on Wednesday, recapping a successful day of COVID-19 testing.

A county commissioner in Bradley County, Tennessee, doesn't mince words when it comes to her position on the coronavirus pandemic.

Georgia's 14th Congressional District, a historically conservative pocket of the state, is up for grabs in November.

Soddy-Daisy resident Vicki Lawson's home isn't even connected to her city's sewer system.

Henry Slayton stood quietly under gray rain clouds looking down at the grave of one of his many friends in the Chattanooga National Cemetery.

Georgia state Sen. Jeff Mullis, R-Chickamauga, will introduce a bill that would cut legislator pay by 14% - the same cut state agencies are being asked to make - as the state grapples with budget shortfalls due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Georgia has been counting a class of tests not included by most other states in its coronavirus screening numbers, artificially raising testing totals and lowering the state's percentage of positive results.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Friday signed his latest COVID-19 executive order, No. 38, which increases the number of people who can participate in social and recreational activities from 10 to 50.

The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office deputy at the center of a deadly officer-involved shooting this week has previously been accused of assaulting a man on a traffic stop during his time as a Collegedale police officer.

The Charles H. Coolidge National Medal of Honor Heritage Center will reopen its doors Saturday, just in time for Memorial Day weekend.

The Hamilton County Health Department announced 44 new COVID-19 cases — the most cases reported in the county in a single day since the pandemic began — on Friday, bringing the county's total case count to 531 and continuing the trend of more than three weeks of rising cases.

The city of Chattanooga will reopen its COVID-19 rental and utility assistance fund in June to help residents struggling to make ends meet during the pandemic after a slow rollout of the program last month.