A faith-based nonprofit focused on combating sex trafficking and veterans' issues such as homelessness is eyeing the McDonald Farm as the potential site for a …
A Hamilton County Commission vote last month that diverted $850,000 from two local nonprofits wasn't the first time a member proposed the idea of clawing back …
At the end of the board's regularly scheduled business meeting Nov. 15, Hamilton County Commissioner Lee Helton, R-East Brainerd, introduced a late addition to…
Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise will proceed with a 32-unit affordable housing project at 2003 Bailey Ave. after city and county leaders this week approved…
With rents on the rise, Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise is seeking a 20-year tax break for a 32-unit housing project, which would enable at least half the …
Chattanooga will spend $20,000 on a social and economic equity study that will aim to provide officials with a roadmap for addressing inequities in areas like …
Commissioner David Sharpe, D-Red Bank, is asking his colleagues to pull $16 million from Hamilton County's approximately $150 million rainy day fund to pay for…
Two organizations that collectively received more than $850,000 in federal funding are protesting Hamilton County's decision to divert those dollars for school…
A nearly $20,000 study by a professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga would evaluate citywide disparities in education, health care, food securit…
When Joyce Roach's husband, Raymond, died in 2018, the funeral home was full of friends the couple had made over the years at the senior center.
The vast majority of people using local homeless services have lived in the Hamilton County area for at least one year, according to data from the Chattanooga …
The Chatt Foundation, a local homeless services organization on East 12th Street, has unveiled a newly renovated kitchen and dining room, which will also enabl…
In an April 5, 2022, letter recommending him for housing, a trauma clinician and a case manager with the Hamilton County Mental Health Court called Darryl Robe…
Originally from East Ridge, Christopher Payne was 16 years old when an older girl named Emily invited him to Nashville to party with her friends.
A Chattanooga board has postponed a request to temporarily place 10 tiny homes in a sanctioned homeless camp at 12th and Peeples streets, which the applicant s…
Chattanooga officials have paused efforts to convert a transit building at 710 E. 12th St. into a 24/7 homeless shelter designed to get people shelter with as …
As cold weather settles in, a tiny home developer wants to place 10 units in Chattanooga's sanctioned homeless camp at 12th and Peeples streets, which would be…
Amid an increase in calls, Hamilton County Emergency Medical Services has added a 17th ambulance.
Chattanooga police Capt. Zachary McCullough doesn't know if placing a low-barrier homeless shelter downtown will be a good or bad idea. What he does know is th…
Even as city and county officials move forward with plans to redevelop the area, Victoria Gray, a nearly three-year resident of College Hill Courts, doesn't in…
State Rep. Greg Martin, R-Hamilton County, told local Republicans there needs to be a patriotic revival in the United States, stating one reason for a nationwi…
Accused killer Darryl Roberts, 57, was under the supervision of the Tennessee Department of Correction for crimes in Georgia when he allegedly shot a businessm…
The man accused of shooting and killing a Chattanooga businessman last month outside Patten Towers passed a screening to stay at the downtown housing facility,…
The man accused in a 2018 fatal vehicle accident was tasting bourbons with a friend the night before he struck another car while traveling the wrong direction …
Chattanooga officials hope to place a 24/7 low-barrier homeless shelter in a transit building on East 12th Street, but at least some nearby community members h…
Jenneth Randall was upset whenever she found discarded pieces of aluminum foil in her granddaughter's bedroom. She knew what it meant.
After serving zero people in September last year, a program designed to assist those who most frequently appear in Hamilton County hospital rooms or jail cells…
An effort to add two alternate members to Chattanooga's Police Advisory and Review Committee, which would have ensured all nine City Council districts have rep…
Following the shooting death of a 38-year-old businessman in downtown Chattanooga, Hamilton County will allocate $180,000 in hotel-motel funds toward enhancing…
Several weeks after a 38-year-old businessman was shot and killed outside Patten Towers, business owners, residents and stakeholders in and around downtown Cha…
Chattanooga neighborhood organizations can now apply for up to $2,500 from the city to support projects within their communities, a funding source that was pau…
The Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled that a nearly 2-year-old decision by the Chattanooga City Council to deny an application for a liquor store in East Br…
A high-speed vehicle chase in downtown Chattanooga began near the 1200 block of Market Street after the motorist failed to wait for pedestrians to clear a cros…
A faith-based nonprofit group intends to invest $25 million in a 100-home campus that would serve as transitional housing for local homeless veterans in Chatta…
As officials seek ways to curtail gun violence, Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly disagrees with how his counterpart in Hamilton County government, Weston Wamp, char…
Members of the Chattanooga City Council have questions about Mayor Tim Kelly's new affordable housing action plan. Among them: Could it require a tax increase?
This December, the Chattanooga Housing Authority plans to apply for a $50 million federal grant that would assist with one-for-one replacements of 629 public h…
While fatal overdoses remain steady, burglary, robbery and vehicle thefts are all down in 2023 compared to the year prior, according to the latest figures from…
After a monthslong planning process, Chattanooga leaders unveiled a new vision for Montague Park on Wednesday that they expect will foster harmony between the …
After facing criticism from some City Council members, the Chattanooga Housing Authority plans to survey Westside residents ahead of an overhaul of public hous…
Chattanooga City Council Chair Raquetta Dotley, of East Lake, is demanding more up-to-date information about the number of public housing residents who want to…
As part of the city's long-term efforts to prevent sewage overflows under an agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency, Chattanooga will move forward …
Hoping to provide a safe space to recuperate, the Chatt Foundation will reopen a 10-bed recovery center Monday for homeless people who have been recently disch…
With about 270 unpermitted short-term vacation rentals still operating in Chattanooga, officials will begin hearing cases Nov. 15 under a new legal process tha…
After initially debating whether to defer a request about the new position, Hamilton County commissioners decided to hire a director of property management wit…
Chattanooga officials intend to move forward with an equity study that would highlight existing disparities in the city and provide recommendations for closing…
City officials may create a 15-member advisory panel to guide their efforts to boost the amount of park space in Chattanooga.
Most of the new homes constructed in Chattanooga are going up in neighborhoods with high property values and low levels of financial distress.
After public outcry, the developer of a housing subdivision at 8209 Bell Mill Road has withdrawn a rezoning request for the 102-acre property, but GreenTech Ho…
Chattanooga police could soon receive 35 stationary license plate readers to be positioned along state routes.
