As school systems across the nation wrestle with teacher shortages, education leaders in Hamilton County are looking at ways to attract new, diverse educators while retaining those that are already here.

Earlier this month, the Chattanooga-Hamilton County NAACP honored its Ruby Hurley Image Award winners, according to a news release.

In a virtual community town hall, Hamilton County Board of Education chair Tucker McClendon and vice-chair Tiffanie Robinson said the district's next superintendent should build on the Future Ready 2023 plan and should have some classroom experience.

The school choice application period has just begun for the 2022-23 school year, and data from the previous process indicates magnet schools are the most in-demand options in the Hamilton County Schools system.

After more than a year of mask-wearing in her school, Sam Whittier's 9-year-old daughter was excited to see her teacher's smile this week without a face covering.

Jeff Eversole, a Republican from Ooltewah, will now run for the new District 10 Hamilton County Commission seat after commissioners approved a map that drew him out of what was previously District 9.

Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School Principal Charles Nix has officially been named Catoosa County Public Schools' next superintendent.

Chattanooga is considering opening a supervised homeless encampment on 12th Street near Peeples Street to curb crime and litter in the area. The camp could be completed within weeks.

Hamilton County Schools kicked off its Choose Hamilton school choice campaign for the 2022-23 school year on Monday and opened choice applications.

The Hamilton County Commission on Wednesday gave final approval to offer property tax breaks to a Chattanooga-based logistics company promising 400 jobs and major economic benefits to the city.

Multiple community centers in Chattanooga will resume operations Thursday as a part of a phased reopening plan after all facilities were shuttered because of the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this year.

The Hamilton County Commission decided Wednesday in a 6-2 vote to increase the number of school board members to 11, up from nine.

The Chattanooga City Council approved Tuesday a property tax break for a Chattanooga-based logistics company with the expectation it will in turn create hundreds of jobs and bolster the local economy.

Development group Lodge of Chattanooga, including local attorney John Anderson, is attempting to rezone property where a Budgetel extended stay hotel is located in East Ridge, with plans to convert the property into apartments.

Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly on Tuesday laid out a four-year plan to revitalize the city that includes goals for road and bridge projects that could be bankrolled by a new $1.2 trillion federal infrastructure bill.

Ben Connor, a North Chattanooga resident and parent, announced his campaign for the District 6 seat on the Hamilton County Board of Education in a Friday news release.

Hamilton County Commissioner Warren Mackey will run for re-election in 2022, he announced Friday.

Matt Hullander, former CEO of the home improvement company HullCo, has entered the race for Hamilton County mayor in 2022, he announced Friday.

The Chattanooga City Council and Hamilton County Commission will vote next week on whether to offer property tax relief to Steam Logistics, which plans to move into the historic John Ross Building downtown.

A Hamilton County Sessions Court judge has been reprimanded for his social media posts, including "legal tips of the day" in which he advised his followers to be stealthy if they are going to commit a crime, as well as advice on where not to hide their "stashes."

The Hamilton County Commission next week will vote on whether to grow the school board to 11 members from the current nine as they go about adapting political boundaries using new 2020 census data.

The Hamilton County Board of Education spoke out in an emailed statement Wednesday morning about a half-hour before it said the Hamilton County Commission would vote to add two new school board districts to the county's political map.

The Catoosa-Dade-Walker vaccination station at the Colonnade, which has provided nearly 55,000 vaccinations to North Georgia residents since it first opened at the start of the pandemic, has now closed and transitioned operations to local health departments.