Former River City Co. President Kim White has filed paperwork to run for mayor of Chattanooga in 2021.

Chattanooga college student and community activist D'Andre Anderson is running for the already contested District 8 City Council seat.

Beginning Monday, Hamilton County Schools will try one week of five-day-a-week, in-person instruction.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has announced $61 million in emergency broadband grants through the state's share of federal coronavirus stimulus money.

School officials have dropped the idea of relocating Chattanooga School for the Liberal Arts (CSLA) to the old Sears at Northgate Mall, instead opting Thursday evening to build a new campus on a site neighboring Lakeside Academy on Jersey Pike.

The Hamilton County school board on Thursday night approved funding totaling $1.1 million for a partnership that will focus on closing the digital gaps among students.

Hamilton County Schools will continue to follow public health recommendations despite new guidance from the state, which says school districts can deem teachers essential workers in order to avoid quarantine after a COVID-19 exposure as long as they adhere to other safety measures.

Tennessee State Rep. Mike Carter, who has been hospitalized in intensive care with a coronavirus infection, says he is starting to feel better.

Tennessee lawmakers on Wednesday voted largely along partisan lines to approve a controversial bill providing sweeping legal protections from COVID-19 lawsuits filed against businesses, schools and other nonprofits, as well as an even more contentious measure cracking down on protests amid recent social unrest.

Chattanooga firefighters are wrestling with unprecedented obstacles as COVID-19 exposure and related funding changes limit staffing, with demand as high as ever.

A controversial Tennessee bill to provide sweeping legal protections from COVID-19 lawsuits filed against businesses, schools, churches and other nonprofit entities easily cleared its first hurdles in Republican-run Senate and House committees on Tuesday.

Hamilton County District Attorney Neal Pinkston is raising objections with local legislators over a state Republican House leader's bill to allow Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery step in if local prosecutors decline to pursue criminal charges against protesters amid civil unrest.

Georgia's governor said Monday that the reopening of some of the state's schools amid the coronavirus outbreak has gone well — except for the widely shared photos of students crowded together without masks.

Tennessee lawmakers launched a special session Monday to work on legislation that would provide health care providers, schools and businesses broad protections against coronavirus lawsuits.

Tuesday is election day in Georgia as voters will be going to the polls for a runoff election that will decide many local races and also the premier matchup between John Cowan and Marjorie Taylor Greene for the Republican ticket in Georgia's 14th Congressional District race.

Hamilton County Schools will have some administrative changes going into the new school year.

Chattanooga mayoral candidate and businessman Tim Kelly is increasing his professional staff to allow himself more time for campaigning, picking up Hamilton County Department of Education Chief Financial Officer Brent Goldberg and others.

Voters in Georgia will return to the polls Tuesday for runoffs to settle party nominations in four congressional races and 17 legislative races, as well as a closely watched contest for who will claim the Democratic nod for district attorney in Fulton County. Here's a look at some top races.

After unexpectedly winning Tennessee Democrats' contest for U.S. Senate last week, Marquita Bradshaw has already made history as the state's first Black woman nominee for statewide office.

In some parts of Tennessee, including Hamilton County, the trend of new daily COVID-19 cases shows signs of improving, indicating that public health interventions such as public face mask mandates may be helping to slow the growth of some local outbreaks.

A push to elect two new conservatives to the Hamilton County Schools board failed at the polls Thursday night, but voters handily reelected conservative Rhonda Thurman despite a challenge from a candidate backed by the teacher's union.

Polls have closed in Tennessee's primary election.

U.S. Senate candidate Bill Hagerty began his election day campaigning in Chattanooga to propel local Republicans to vote for him in Thursday's GOP primary.