More than 20,000 plastic water bottles and 150,000 aid station cups were used during last weekend's Ironman, according to race officials.

Is it Bend or broken?

It's hot.

Writing op-ed humor columns around a Trump presidency is like drinking water through a firehose. Here is a summary of the many topics I could not get to this quarter:

When Jean Marie Lawrence was looking for a wheelchair-friendly hair salon a couple of years ago, she contacted Jerritt Patterson of the ed/it salon on Frazier Avenue.

One of the great ironies of our time is the more liberals demand acceptance and diversity, the more they ridicule and ostracize those who do not share their perspectives. Meet Patrick Hampton.

Retired U.S. Navy Chaplain Cmdr. Phil Sumrall will open a special event around lunchtime Wednesday with a prayer in honor of a man he never met.

Returning from an Honor Flight visit to Washington, D.C., recently, I read an article, "I Refuse to Listen to White Women Cry," in The Washington Post.

Before the last Democratic debate in November, party leaders will tighten the polling and fundraising criteria that candidates must meet to extend their participation. The political Grim Reaper will then eliminate more of the original aspirants.

On Sept. 17, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee released a proposal that would convert most of the federal component of funding for TennCare, the state's version of Medicaid, to a block grant.

Dr. James Livingood, UTC historian, discussed the last battle of the American Revolution in excerpts from his "Chattanooga, An Illustrated History."

Founded in 1979 by the Episcopal Church to help the "poor, homeless, hungry, battered" in Chattanooga, Metropolitan Ministries — or MetMin — turns 40 this year.

My husband and I were visiting Chattanooga for a few days.

Few movies have had the pre-release buzz or hype over movie-circuit award show success as "The Joker."

The Friends of Mountain Creek (FOMC) is a grassroots movement of more than 2,000 area citizens who support a better use of the property at 1001 Reads Lake Road than has been proposed by a developer.

Last week, I took our 17-year-old son in for a routine blood test. Walking into the outpatient clinic, the thought hit me: This might be the last time I'll do this.

The anti-civil rights Democrat Party of slavery, Jim Crow laws, Democrat KKK Sen. and Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, George Wallace and Sen. Robert "KKK" Byrd has no tolerance for anyone who might have acted like a knucklehead 30 years ago.

In a month where there seems no end to disasters, scandals and threats, I celebrated my birthday looking for a ray of hope.

Pardon Teresia Mwema and Hannah Wambui if they don't quite feel our pain over a recent water main break that crippled Chattanooga for a couple of days.

We have passed through the looking glass to the real-life place where the cliche "no good deed goes unpunished" has become a way of life.

I admit it, I quit award shows a long time ago.

I'm not sure most patients can name the new CEO of Erlanger Health System.

On Sept. 12th, Environmental Protection Agency chief, Andrew Wheeler, announced revocation of Obama-era regulations that dealt with water quality.