Longtime former Athens, Tennessee, councilman, first Black mayor dies
Athens, Tennessee's first Black mayor and former city council member whose tenure spanned more than three decades died in his hometown where he was first elect…
Athens, Tennessee's first Black mayor and former city council member whose tenure spanned more than three decades died in his hometown where he was first elect…
A district attorney's review of a Jasper, Tennessee, police officer's actions during an Aug. 5 traffic stop found the use of force was lawful and within Police…
A former teacher's aide with the Franklin County School District is free on a $50,000 bond after being arrested on multiple charges of sexual misconduct and co…
The trial for the McMinn County, Tennessee, woman facing more than 40 counts of having sex with 18 teen boys, set for Tuesday, has been delayed and a new date …
If you've been looking but just haven't been able to find the right jail to buy, a cool $300,000 could get you into an 1851-era little fixer-upper in Pikeville…
A Grundy County, Tennessee, man wrongfully convicted in 2007 of a murder he didn't commit and since released from prison and exonerated by the governor has now…
The bright blue roof of the Cookie Jar Cafe in Dunlap, Tennessee — seen for years gleaming like a gem in the Sequatchie Valley — is now a shiny silver as rebui…
The mayor and vice mayor of Athens, Tennessee, didn't violate city ethics policies when they called on the McMinn County Library board to remove an LGBTQ+ Prid…
Traffic has been turned loose on the last piece of the $32 million Interstate 24-South Broad Street improvement project on Chattanooga's Southside as the newly…
A state police training commission report accuses the Grundy County Sheriff's Office of employing uncertified deputies — including one assigned as a resource o…
A fire chief and assistant fire chief have been appointed by officials in New Hope, Tennessee, to replace the town's firefighters after the majority of the dep…
Bids on the interchange modification project on Interstate 75 at Hamilton Place Boulevard has been delayed until fall, but the project, once started, will stil…
A Maryland company hired to dispose of treated sewage from Chattanooga's Moccasin Bend Wastewater Plant is suing, saying the company's efforts have been microm…
The U.S. Forest Service is investigating after vandalism was reported on a small island at Parksville Lake in Polk County, Tennessee, and officials at Lee Univ…
Neighboring volunteer fire departments in Marion County, Tennessee, will provide services to the town of New Hope after most of the town's firefighters resigne…
Arriving in a small convoy of pickup trucks, six of the New Hope Volunteer Fire Department's eight volunteer firefighters unlocked the door to their fire hall …
Former 10th Judicial District Attorney Jerry Estes will assume the post vacated Friday by DA Stephen Crump, who began his new job Monday as executive director …
Despite rising gun seizures at many airports across the state and U.S., local seizures of firearms from carry-on bags at the Chattanooga Airport at the six-mon…
Like dark omens, electronic and new steel signs sit on Chattanooga's North Terrace and South Terrace, foretelling the coming closure and detours in the replace…
More play is on the way in Dayton, Tennessee.
The owners of an iconic Dunlap, Tennessee, eatery heavily damaged by fire in June have announced plans to rebuild with hopes of reopening by the end of the yea…
The pending August closure of Shaw Industries' facility in Decatur, Tennessee, poses a significant impact on the Meigs County seat's plans for a new $16-18 mil…
A Bledsoe County, Tennessee, man is behind bars on a $1 million bond after being charged in the slaying of a woman in neighboring White County, according to th…
State investigators are probing the death of an inmate at the Bradley County Jail after he was found unresponsive by correctional officers, according to a stat…
The 110 acres of family farmland in New Hope, Tennessee, eyed by a high-end recreational vehicle resort park developer earlier this year for a $30 million, 250…
As Tennessee boating fatalities in 2023 keep pace with 2022 at 14 to date, state officials are gearing up for Operation Dry Water, a nationwide campaign pushin…
Shaw Industries will close its Decatur, Tennessee, plant by the end of August, idling 336 jobs as residential carpet manufacturing operations are moved to Nort…
After years of appearing on the "distressed counties" list for Appalachian communities, Grundy County finally climbed from the ranks of the economically worst …
An early morning fire Sunday heavily damaged Dunlap, Tennessee's iconic Cookie Jar Café restaurant, and state investigators are looking into the cause.
As the first work on phase 2 of the $161 million Interstate 75/Interstate 24 split project nears, state officials have planned three informational meetings thi…
The LGBTQ+ Pride Month display at the library in Athens, Tennessee, was taken down the day it was put up following calls by the town's mayor and vice mayor dem…
A Cleveland, Tennessee, coach and owner of a local cheerleading school has been charged on four felony counts of sexual battery involving four female alleged v…
Athens, Tennessee, police found a body Monday afternoon in a wooded area along Decatur Pike, but so far investigators have only questions and no answers.
Four adults have been charged with child abuse after a Tennessee 4-year-old tested positive for methamphetamine, according to authorities in Rhea County.
Drivers headed for downtown Chattanooga on Rossville Boulevard began encountering a new traffic pattern this week that shifted the flow of vehicles from four t…
With more than 65,000 people expected to attend Manchester, Tennessee's four-day Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival starting Thursday, state transportation offic…
The pilot of the Erlanger Life Force helicopter that crashed in North Carolina on March 9 was reviewing flight logs while on autopilot when he looked up to see…
After an arrest Friday for BUI and reckless operation of a vessel, Baylor School's president and head issued a letter taking responsibility for his actions whi…
A Grundy County, Tennessee, man in court on a string of charges including DUI and evading arrest escaped on foot during a walk from the courthouse to the jail …
The president and head of Baylor School in Chattanooga was arrested Friday and charged with operating a boat while under the influence, according to law enforc…
A Tennessee county commissioner is working to unite elected officials in Southeast Tennessee and North Georgia to discuss concerns arising from the transportat…
An Athens, Tennessee, man was jailed after allegedly firing shots at residents and law enforcement after an altercation.
The Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum $12,000 in three "serious" citations for safety viol…
With the increasing cost of fireworks — and cost of living — many governments across the Chattanooga region are planning smaller Fourth of July celebrations th…
A Rhea County, Tennessee, man charged in the Feb. 24 shooting of another man to death with an SKS rifle at a home on the Rhea-Bledsoe county line was indicted …
Beginning Wednesday, construction crews will close the intersection of Cemetery Road and Ringgold Road in East Ridge to begin work on storm drainage pipes, a p…
After sightings of black bears across the region — including Collegedale and Athens, Tennessee, near the Cherokee National Forest — state wildlife officials ar…
An investigation by state wildlife officers led to a conviction on charges of aggravated criminal littering, according to a news release from the Tennessee Wil…
A bipartisan bill in the U.S. House seeks to designate the Benton MacKaye Trail, which winds through the the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee, Georgia and No…
The $32 million project to reconstruct the interchanges on Interstate 24 at South Broad and Market streets on Chattanooga's Southside is on track for an Aug. 3…