Plans for a 708-unit apartment complex off North Hickory Valley Road received criticism from neighbors during a meeting of the Hamilton County Commission on Wednesday, although a representative for the project said it would fill a need for housing in that area.

Some products containing extracts of cannabidiol, a chemical found in hemp, can again be sold in Catoosa County stores, according to a court ruling handed down Tuesday afternoon.

Chattanooga Police Chief Celeste Murphy, Hamilton County Commissioner David Sharpe and Juvenile Court Judge Robert Philyaw were among several community leaders who lined up at the main entrance to Brainerd High School to welcome students back on Wednesday morning.

Over the past few years, it's become increasingly common for governments to make public meetings available via livestream or video posted online for citizens to view at home.

The Chattanooga City Council gave its unanimous OK on Tuesday for the construction of a $79.5 million stadium for the Chattanooga Lookouts at the former U.S Pipe/Wheland Foundry site in the South Broad District.

Marie Mott, who led local demonstrations in response to the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, got the most votes for the District 8 seat on the Chattanooga City Council last week.

Since the EdConnect program launched in 2020, more than 16,000 low-income students — and 28,000 of their family members — have received free internet in their homes. While the effort works to close the digital divide, researchers have discovered another benefit: Parents are showing more involvement in the education of their children.

Voter turnout was low across the board during the election in Hamilton County on Thursday, with 50,464 ballots cast out of an eligible voter pool of 235,853 people.

The only Democrat on the local ballot in Bradley County, Jodi Riggins, won a school board seat Thursday over Allan Jones, a payday lender millionaire who hosted a political fundraiser with Donald Trump in March and featured two photos of himself with the former president on his campaign's Facebook page.

Republicans gained one seat and Democrats gained two as the Hamilton County school board on Thursday held its first partisan election and grew to 11 seats from nine as a result of the redistricting process after the 2020 census.

After a close primary and a general election upended in the 11th hour by emails leaked to county officials, the media and his opponent, Republican Weston Wamp defeated Democrat Matt Adams on Thursday in the race for Hamilton County mayor.

The results for the state and federal primary and state and county general election. Polls close at 8 p.m. EST.

At Belle Meade City Hall, Victor Nelson took a quick break from his work as a poll worker, a job he says is as rewarding as it is challenging.

With the Hamilton County Commission approving a key funding mechanism and the creation of a body to oversee the issuance of bonds, plans to construct a new $79.4 million stadium for the Chattanooga Lookouts on the former U.S. Pipe/Wheland Foundry site have cleared another hurdle.

As one candidate, Republican Weston Wamp, stressed alongside friends and family the importance of boosting voter turnout for county races, his opponent in the election for Hamilton County mayor, Democrat Matt Adams, lashed out Tuesday over Wamp's relationship with the Chattanooga Lookouts — and sought to recruit an unlikely ally.

A small business owner in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, is suing the Catoosa County Sheriff's Office for what he says is his legal right to sell extracts of cannabidiol, a chemical found in hemp.

A Chattanooga panel on Monday unanimously agreed to send a financing plan for a new multiuse stadium to the City Council for its consideration, pushing the proposed project closer to reality.

A candidate running in Tennessee's 5th Congressional District GOP primary was escorted out of the state Republican Party's annual fundraiser over the weekend after an outburst directed at state House Speaker Cameron Sexton and Lt. Gov. Randy McNally, the state Senate speaker, as both leaders came on stage.

With only days to go before Thursday's election, the 14 candidates vying for six seats on the Hamilton County Board of Education have collectively raised roughly $180,000 in the state's first-ever partisan school board election.

After emails leaked last week accusing him of making a racist and sexist comment during a meeting with Chattanooga Lookouts team leadership in 2015, Hamilton County mayoral candidate Weston Wamp doubled down Monday on his own counter-allegations that the team's managing owner used the emails for extortion.

As early voting ended Saturday and voters ready to head to the polls Thursday, a Hamilton County judge has ruled against a lawsuit challenging Cleveland, Tennessee, millionaire Allan Jones's residency qualifications to run for Cleveland's District 5 school board seat.

Hamilton County Election Commission figures show 19,629 voters cast ballots during early voting, representing a 9% drop from 2018, in advance of the county's balloting on Thursday for mayor, district attorney and other posts, an election which will also serve as a primary for state and federal offices such as governor and state representative.

They once served together on the Bradley County Commission, but state Rep. Mark Hall, of Cleveland, and J. Adam Lowe, of McMinn County, are now squaring off in what has become an increasingly bitter Republican primary nomination fight for Tennessee's recently redrawn state Senate District 1.