The Pops on the River event featured opening act the Peace, Love & Happiness Band with a free outdoor patriotic concert by the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera followed by a fireworks show.

When her 13-year-old daughter left the bathroom at Hunter Middle School in Ooltewah, Darnella Orr said, two boys attacked her with pencils, leaving a cut on her thumb and pencil marks on her black skin.

Supply chain issues have put the $47.9 million Tennessee State Veterans' Home in Cleveland, Tennessee, about a month behind its hoped-for completion date of June 30, and about 60 people are already on the waiting list, according to state officials.

A new expo is planned for Chattanooga to bring former felons turned entrepreneurs together with local business owners.

More people moving to Hamilton County should help spur future growth around a new Chattanooga Lookouts stadium without hurting downtown, some business and government leaders said.

If city and county leaders agree to back a proposed new stadium for the Chattanooga Lookouts, the current 6,382-seat arena built on Hawk Hill near the downtown waterfront could be abandoned by 2025.

Near-record gasoline prices didn't keep Nicole Caradona and her two daughters from starting a getaway weekend Friday at the start of the July 4 holiday weekend.

Tennessee State Parks and 23 Ocoee River outfitters have joined forces again this year to offer military veterans a free rafting trip on the Fourth of July, and for the first time, their families can get half-off rates, too.

Before entering drug court in 2016, Richard Morrison Jr. said all he had ever known was "drug addiction and chaos."

Let's just say that 2022 is shaping up as a most improved year for Chattanooga Lookouts President Rich Mozingo.

Here's a look at what roads will be closed for Chattanooga-area events this holiday weekend.

Upcoming road closures and projects in the Chattanooga area.

Families, young people and various Chattanooga religious leaders gathered at a Thursday service to pray and rejoice after the Supreme Court's decision last week overturning Roe v. Wade.

Diane Derzis thought she was prepared for Roe v. Wade, and the constitutional right to an abortion, to be overturned. At clinics she owns across the South, she had been preparing for months.

The Northwest Georgia Regional Commission has chosen Boyd Austin as its new executive director. The former mayor of Dallas, Georgia, starts with the commission Friday.

Planning to head out on the water for the Fourth of July holiday weekend?

Part of Cash Canyon Road was closed Thursday after a semi-tractor trailer overturned and went over a railing, according to the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office.

It's a strange July 1 for new Georgia laws.

Despite warnings to leave fireworks to the experts, backyard fireworks on the Fourth of July are as traditional as barbecues and burgers.

A 66-year-old man was detained Thursday morning after allegedly fleeing with an ambulance and hitting a police vehicle in downtown Chattanooga, according to the Chattanooga Police Department.

Baseball, high school sports, soccer, concerts and charity events are among hundreds of uses a new stadium could host if plans unveiled Thursday for the Chattanooga facility are OK'd, an official said.

Chattanooga and Hamilton County leaders have a new plan for a Lookouts baseball stadium that they think will power a vast revamp of old foundry land and serve as a signature gateway into the city.

A collaboration by Chattanooga area nonprofits and government agencies seeks to address the recent wave of violence in Chattanooga involving young people by providing a series of events giving children fun and safe activities as an alternative to getting involved with gangs and other illegal activity.