Neighborhoods surrounding the 44 acres that once housed the Harriet Tubman public housing development should be included in a proposed tax increment financing district, said local residents during a public hearing on the issue Thursday.

After years of providing animal services to Hamilton County from a 100-year-old building, the Humane Educational Society of Chattanooga is one step closer to having a new home.

Education, reducing childhood trauma, transportation, emotional support, economic empowerment, mentorship and improving the appearance of places that attract crime were some of the ideas to reduce gun violence put forward by the Chattanooga Mayor's Youth Council on Wednesday.

Citing family and another job offer, Fort Oglethorpe City Manager Jennifer Payne-Simpkins announced her resignation earlier this week, according to Mayor Earl Gray.

A company operating a quarry in Soddy-Daisy was granted three years to finish its rock harvesting operation before it will remediate the property and donate part of the land to Ivy Academy, the town's zoning board of appeals voted Wednesday morning.

As the Democratic-led U.S. House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday began historic public impeachment hearings to determine whether President Donald Trump used military aid to pressure Ukraine to investigate political opponents, political passions played out among some Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama congressmen and senators on social media.

The city of Collegedale is repealing some of its residential building codes to better match those maintained by the state of Tennessee and neighboring Chattanooga.

Fort Oglethorpe City Manager Jennifer Payne-Simpkins announced her resignation to city employees earlier today. Payne-Simpkins was unavailable for immediate comment, but one employee said her resignation is effective Dec. 1.

One way or another, the city of Fort Oglethorpe's fire department is getting restructured.

For the second time in a month, representatives of the city of Dalton, Georgia, the Whitfield County Commission and three other municipalities will sit down with a judge for a mandatory meeting to negotiate the county's service delivery strategy.

A possible 20-story landmark tower in the middle of the former Alstom site is eyed by the tract's owners, who on Monday won rezoning approval from a Chattanooga planning panel.

Chattanooga planners on Monday agreed to rezone a 57-acre parcel off Ooltewah-Ringgold Road for new housing, but not before nearby residents renewed traffic and school overcrowding worries.

The embattled city of Collegedale is facing another lawsuit as a Hamilton County man claims a Collegedale police officer injured him during a traffic stop.

Hamilton County officials are asking for state legislative help addressing property assessments, school funding, court fees and other local issues.

As funding public education remains a contentious debate in Hamilton County, Mayor Jim Coppinger on Wednesday announced a joint meeting, planned for next month, between the county commission and school board members.

All results are unofficial until certified, and provisional ballots are still outstanding in some races.

With a crowd of developers, property owners and other concerned Chattanoogans addressing the Chattanooga City Council, discord surrounding the future of steep slope development legislation ran high at a hearing late Tuesday.

In a mayoral race that was messy with small-town politics at times, Ringgold Mayor Nick Millwood came out on top Tuesday night to win his second term.

A group of teachers — loosely identified as Hamilton County United — is calling on elected officials to join them for a town hall on Nov. 17 on teacher pay and public education funding.

Chattanooga City Councilwoman Demetrus Coonrod has been named to the state executive committee for 10th Senate District for the Tennessee Democratic Party.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee says he expects a controversial $4 million grant provision included in this year's $38.55 billion budget to get back on track once more transparency and guidelines are established on how groups are awarded taxpayer dollars.

A Tennessee state judge on Wednesday set a 2020 trial date for a "Baby Doe" lawsuit filed by district attorneys general that targets national opioid manufacturers for their role in the deadly narcotic painkiller epidemic.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said today that although he still believes many of the overwhelmingly negative public comments about his Medicaid block grant proposal are based on "misinformation," he will wade through all 2,200 pages while keeping an open mind on possible changes.