Many vaccinated Tennesseans could be denied access to monoclonal antibodies in favor of unvaccinated people as new recommendations aim to conserve the life-saving treatment for those at highest risk of COVID-19 hospitalization.

Robert Sivick has been named Whitfield County, Georgia's new county administrator.

State Rep. Yusuf Hakeem, D-Chattanooga, is questioning why House Republicans aren't honoring what he views as their commitment to return to a Black history bill he sponsored that GOP lawmakers in April set aside for summer study.

The Hamilton County Board of Education voted 5-2 to approve a teacher code of professional conduct at its Thursday meeting.

Catoosa County, Georgia, government employees are now eligible to receive $500 and an additional 40 hours of paid time off if they get vaccinated against COVID-19.

The Hamilton County Commission is considering a proposal to withhold funding from the district attorney's office due to ongoing and unaddressed concerns over potential nepotism.

Republican Greg Vital of Georgetown was elected Tuesday as Tennessee House District 29's new representative at the state Capitol in the special election held in Hamilton County.

Just weeks after Walker County, Georgia, residents marched down Main Street in LaFayette to the courthouse to call for the resignation of commission Chairman Shannon Whitfield, who they claimed illegally rezoned property related to the proposed Gateway at Rossville affordable workforce housing development, the county held a town hall meeting to address "inaccurate information" being spread about the project.

Interested voters in Tennessee House District 29 will head to the polls Tuesday in the Hamilton County contest in which Republican Greg Vital and Democrat DeAngelo Jelks have collectively spent nearly $133,000 trying to generate interest in the special election.

Zach Wamp was sitting at his desk in the Cannon House Office Building on Sept. 11, 2001, in what started out like a routine day for the congressman representing the Chattanooga area.

On the same day a Texas law went into effect banning abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, advocates on both sides of the abortion debate were preparing for impact in Tennessee.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and legislative leaders are weighing using $100 million in federal funds to boost medical staff at dozens of nearly overwhelmed acute care hospitals now under assault by one of the nation's steepest rises in COVID-19 infection rates and resulting hospitalizations stressing the state's intensive care units.

Chattanooga's "emergency recycling pickup" will not take materials to recycling centers, but will deliver them to the dump.

Hamilton County faith and community leaders are urging the Hamilton County Commission to better address racial and ethnic health disparities as the commissioners look for a new administrator for the health department.

Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly's first proposed budget is getting mixed reviews from the public, as vocal constituents support general pay increases but fracture over an increased police budget.

The Chattanooga Department of Public Works will provide a single collection of curbside recycling on an emergency basis, beginning Monday.

Although the mayors of Chattanooga and Hamilton County are both vaccinated against COVID-19, the inoculation status of the city council and county commission is less clear-cut.

For the first time in a decade, the city of East Ridge is raising property taxes.

Schools across the Chattanooga region that just started the new academic year are struggling to control COVID-19 as the highly contagious delta variant drives cases among largely unvaccinated students - prompting Hamilton County Schools to ask all students to wear face masks and forcing some schools to close altogether.

Hamilton County commissioners sparred over partisanship Wednesday as the panel prepares to elect a new chairperson.

The Chattanooga City Council on Tuesday voted 7-2 to authorize a lease with a soccer foundation for part of Montague Park, with panel members saying sports can co-exist next to the Sculpture Fields.

Councilwoman Demetrus Coonrod is proposing Chattanooga consider reclaiming control of its schools, now operated by Hamilton County.

Red Bank commissioners are selecting the city's new manager at a special-called meeting Wednesday at 4:30 p.m.