Ten days after winning the countywide Republican primary election for Hamilton County mayor by a razor-thin margin, Weston Wamp held a belated victory party Friday night and pledged to his supporters that he will work to dignify public service and focus on improving public education for future generations if he is elected in August.

A federal judge on Thursday denied a congressional hopeful's motion to reverse his removal from the GOP primary ballot.

Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Hammond requested a $6.5 million budget increase from the County Commission on Wednesday.

Melydia Clewell will resign from her position as chief of staff at the Hamilton County District Attorney's Office effective May 17, after more than a year of controversy over nepotism at the agency.

The City of Chattanooga is extending the life of the Chattanooga Zoo with the passage Tuesday evening of a 50-year lease on the property.

The Hamilton County Schools Board of Education may soon go before the County Commission to request $10 million in recurring maintenance revenue to begin tackling nearly $1 billion in deferred building repairs.

The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office is seeking an increased budget to hire more correctional officers in hopes of adequately staffing Silverdale Detention Center, where assaults and rapes have left District Attorney Neal Pinkston calling it "the most dangerous place in the county."

After postponing a budget decision last month until state allocations were finalized, the Hamilton County Board of Education passed a fiscal year 2022-23 $456 million budget during a special session Monday.

In pulling off his down-to-the-wire win Tuesday to snag the Republican nomination for Hamilton County mayor, Weston Wamp rode a broad wave of support across the western half of the county.

Chattanooga may pride itself on its many public-private partnerships formed to address local needs and development, but the city is being shut out of $175 million being awarded across the state to public-private groups picked for innovative pilot projects to help more Tennesseans get out of poverty.

John Allen Brooks launched his campaign Thursday for Hamilton County district attorney as the Democratic nominee.

Mayor Tim Kelly said Thursday he is optimistic Chattanooga can overcome some of its biggest challenges and become the best city in America.

In two of the closest Hamilton County Commission races in Tuesday's Republican primary, the prevailing candidates both gave credit to their work as members of governing bodies for county municipalities for swaying votes in their favor.

Hamilton County will get a new mayor, sheriff, district attorney and at least seven new county commissioners and five new school board members in September as part of an ongoing process that started with the primary election Tuesday.

Chattanooga entrepreneur Weston Wamp on Tuesday narrowly won the Republican nomination for Hamilton County mayor, according to final unofficial vote totals released by the Hamilton County Elections Commission.

Law enforcement attorney Coty Wamp on Tuesday decisively defeated eight-year incumbent Neal Pinkston for the Republican nomination for Hamilton County district attorney.

Polls close at 8 p.m and results will be updated in this story as they come in.

An inmate at Silverdale Detention Center awaiting trial on misdemeanor theft charges will be transported to a polling place Tuesday to cast her vote in the primary election after Hamilton County General Sessions Court Judge Gary Starnes approved a request filed with the court Monday.

Hamilton County and Chattanooga officials and local state legislators sometimes found themselves at odds on major issues during this year's session of the Tennessee General Assembly.

As voters prepare to go to the polls Tuesday for the Hamilton County primary elections, a new survey shows attorney Coty Wamp with a strong lead in her bid to oust Hamilton County District Attorney Neal Pinkston, and her older brother Weston Wamp is holding a narrow lead in the hotly contested three-person GOP contest to succeed Jim Coppinger as county mayor.

With hotly contested races for mayor, district attorney and several judge and commissioner races, the number of Hamilton County voters casting ballots during early voting this year more than doubled the number four years earlier in the last county primary election.

This campaign season, education issues in Hamilton County have been at the forefront of debate - especially given the state's first-ever partisan school board races.

More than half of children in Tennessee, and 76% of children in south and central Chattanooga, live in households that cannot afford the local cost of living, according to a new report from the United Ways of Tennessee.