Ford Motor Co. is not coming to the McDonald Farm site, nor is a sewer treatment plant or a landfill.

By the thinnest of margins, a move to shrink lot sizes for new single-family homes and boost density in future subdivisions was approved Wednesday by the Hamilton County Commission.

Incoming Hamilton County Schools interim superintendent Nakia Towns is ready to start the new school year filling in for departing Superintendent Bryan Johnson.

The Chattanooga Police Department and Unum announced Wednesday a new partnership to aid children following traumatic events that require police presence.

Hamilton County District Attorney Neal Pinkston used county funds to supplement state pay for his wife and brother-in-law, state records show.

Hamilton County Health Department officials are sounding the alarm on the county's recent spike in new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations fueled by the more contagious delta variant.

Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly has tapped businessman and longtime Republican activist Oscar Brock for a newly created role as the city's director of intergovernmental relations.

The Hamilton County Board of Education on Monday selected Nakia Towns to serve as interim superintendent. She will take on the role after Superintendent Bryan Johnson's last day Aug. 17.

Mitch Crist picks up trash downtown several mornings a week, trading up to five full trash bags for $4 each once he wraps up his rounds.

Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Bryan Johnson announced that he is stepping down from the role in a letter to the community on Tuesday. His last day will be Aug. 17.

Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Bryan Johnson told a virtual panel Wednesday he was hopeful for the upcoming school year and shared plans for the year.

After a rash of police calls and a fatal shooting in May, the city of Chattanooga on Tuesday revoked a decade-old special exceptions permit for the SkyZoo nightclub, posing questions about what's next for the venue and those with similar histories.

Tennessee's special committee investigating the presence and movement of immigrants in the state will continue its work even after the state shut down the Chattanooga shelter for migrant children that sparked the effort.

Accusations by two former staffers against former Chattanooga mayoral candidate Monty Bruell this week also brought to light financial reporting irregularities from Bruell's campaign.

The Biden Administration last month announced a new strategy to combat rising violent crimes in major cities, including using federal COVID-19 funds to help get a handle on the rising violent crime rate.

The Hamilton County Commission is set to vote next week to consider a land donation for a building trade school to open in 2022.

The Hamilton County Commission will vote next week on purchasing the McDonald Farm in Sale Creek for $16 million.

An official for a company planning a new 300-worker plant in a former Alstom facility in Chattanooga said Tuesday it could put another factory in the area with about 1,000 employees.

A former campaign staffer took over former Chattanooga mayoral candidate Monty Bruell's campaign social media account, using it to accuse Bruell of stiffing her and other staffers for work done during his 2021 campaign.

At least 17 appointed employees of the city of Chattanooga have left or will leave their roles as Mayor Tim Kelly creates a new team of administrators, department heads and other high-ranking employees.

Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly announced interim department heads and administrators this week who will serve in the restructured city government as the new administration seeks to hire permanent staff.

Workers in Chattanooga could be among the biggest beneficiaries of President Joe Biden's push to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next five years, although business groups worry that such a wage boost could be inflationary and end up blocking job opportunities for many young people and low-skilled workers.

A panel of federal appellate judges on Tuesday reinstated a Tennessee law requiring first-time voters in the state to appear in person to vote, reasoning in part that the COVID-19 pandemic is "unlikely to pose a serious threat during the next election cycle."