Ben Benton

The COVID-19 outbreak in the tri-state area around Chattanooga is among the fastest-growing in the nation as the virus surges in rural and urban areas.

Dunlap police have hired help in two 2018 missing persons cases in Sequatchie County, and for the first time authorities say there are persons of interest in both investigations.

Visitation has been suspended at four Tennessee Department of Correction prisons, including the one nearest Chattanooga in Bledsoe County, due to a statewide rise in COVID-19 cases.

A Palmer, Tennessee, man has been booked on a homicide charge in connection with an incident that happened in Grundy County in late October, according to authorities.

The winner of the Nov. 3 election for Bledsoe County trustee has declined to assume the job, citing health issues.

In the African American Civic District in Cohutta, Georgia, fewer than a handful of buildings, one dating back more than a century, are fighting a battle with time.

A two-story log cabin housing the kitchen and workhouse exhibit at the Chief Vann House in Spring Place, Georgia, is undergoing a complete exterior restoration. Department of Natural Resources officials say that while the cabin will be closed for a couple of months, the rest of the site will remain open to visitors.

The Sequatchie County Sheriff's Office and members of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, FBI, Chattanooga Police Department Bomb Squad and the 12th Judicial Drug Task Force served a search warrant Tuesday that turned up a gun, drug paraphernalia and what authorities identified as black explosive powder and a pipe bomb.

A small group of skateboarders plans to urge city leaders in South Pittsburg, Tennessee, to allow them to use a concrete pad at the city's Loyd Park for a small skate park.

The Georgia Department of Transportation's two-state plan on the Polk County, Tennessee/Fannin County, Georgia line for a truck bypass and road improvements has been delayed by impacts from the coronavirus, and now the work is being split into separate projects.

Commuters and local residents who drive U.S. Highway 41 between Guild and Riverside in Marion County, Tennessee, can finally breathe a collective sigh of relief.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking comments on the proposed listing of a tiny fish that lives in the Sequatchie River and other bodies of water in East Tennessee as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

For the first time since it was built 53 years ago, the McMinn County Courthouse in Athens, Tennessee, is undergoing an exterior restoration of its most well-worn feature, its historic front steps.

John and Taylor Creighton are the youngest and last of seven Grundy County, Tennessee, brothers who accumulated more than 100 years of military service along them.

The $143.2 million U.S. Highway 27 improvement project is headed for an end-of-the-year finish, but there will be lots of temporary changes and closures coming in the next few weeks to allow crews to attend to the final details.

Voters in three rural Southeast Tennessee towns and the city of East Ridge overwhelmingly approved liquor referendums Tuesday.

At 5 years old, Jim Stokes had a strong feeling he'd been blessed.

There were some long lines, especially in more rural areas, as polls Tuesday opened for Election Day in Chattanooga, where turnout appears as strong as it was during early voting.

A well-known Cleveland, Tennessee, restaurant family got an unwelcome early Halloween trick when a fire broke out Saturday morning at Jenkins Restaurant and Deli.

A longtime DeKalb County, Alabama, sheriff's deputy died Tuesday from complications of COVID-19.