Hamilton County will hold a state House special election primary on Tuesday. The outcome in the District 29 race is virtually certain, so most voters likely will stay home.

When the Hamilton County Board of Education hired Dr. Bryan Johnson as superintendent in 2017, and once the public realized what an intelligent, energetic and collegial man had been put under contract to lead its school district, it was easy to be swept away in the thought that he would remain in place for many years.

On Friday, in a ribbon-cutting ceremony, the renamed and renovated Patten Square in downtown Chattanooga - formerly Patten Parkway - officially will be reopened.

A resolution before the Hamilton County Commission on Wednesday would revise county zoning regulations for the construction of single-family homes designated R-1.

What is the national media scenario about COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States?

Up in Washington, D.C., members of Congress are trying to figure out how to pass an infrastructure bill that both Democrats and Republicans say they wanted yesterday.

What is the general public to make of the kerfuffle over the Hamilton County district attorney general's employing of relatives in his office? Is it much ado about nothing or a symptom of something worse?

Two months before most of the nation received stay-at-home and work-from-home guidance in mid-March 2020 due to the potential of COVID-19, the Tennessee Health Operations Center was activated.

When you're the only Democrat in the Hamilton County legislative delegation, you either can advocate for your party and your stances on issues and attempt to work across the aisle on legislation where you might make a difference. Or you can just be oppositional.

If you're a coronavirus-wary Hamilton County parent planning to send your child back to school in less than a month, we don't envy you.

Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center last month released a new framework for its future, shifting its conservation efforts to native landscapes in the Southeast and ultimately planning to present those restored ecosystems as learning landscapes for an emerging generation of environmental stewards.

"If you're not growing, you're dying."

We don't begrudge the state of Tennessee spending money to promote tourism.

The development, it was said at the time, would offer a rooftop terrace with stunning views of Lookout Mountain, an interior garden and perhaps a gallery space, dance, painting, music and rehearsal studios, and community spaces.

Want to get rid of U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tenn.? How about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California?

A new political action committee was created in April called beatbilllee.com. Its mission, according to the website, is to "beat the extreme right power grab by [Tennessee Gov.] Bill Lee and save our families."

A new horizon is just around the corner for many non-college-bound students with Wednesday's update on a new vocational center at the former Mary Ann Garber Elementary School in East Chattanooga, and all that will be necessary is for them to seize it.

What's more American than baseball?

Much of downtown Chattanooga, Highland Park, North Brainerd, East Chattanooga, Highway 58, the Southside, Alton Park and St. Elmo, along with many of the city's main thoroughfares, are in the Tennessee House district of state Rep. Yusuf Hakeem.

For many people, the thankfully receding global pandemic may have given them the opportunity they may have long sought - the pleasure of being able to read more.

What is the federal government's responsibility to a state when it parks unaccompanied alien children in that state?

We wonder if those who saw a new study that suggested Chattanooga would be among the cities that would benefit most from a $15 an hour minimum wage rise understand the results of such a study actually argue against a minimum wage increase.

In the days before our neighboring state to the south became ground zero for a controversial presidential election, a state election administrator performing a best-practice action would gather no headlines and not be rife for misdirection.