Lisa Denton

Here's what's happening in the Chattanooga area this week.

This weekend's calendar of events.

Children entering the foster-care system in Hamilton County will soon have a place of greater refuge as they await placement in a foster home.

Here's what's happening in the Chattanooga area this week.

Tennessee's tax-free, back-to-school shopping weekend will be busy in other ways, too, in the Chattanooga area. Here's a chronology of upcoming events.

Here's what's happening in the Chattanooga area this week.

Spend any time under summer's blazing sun in the Chattanooga area and you'll understand how quickly hot, humid air can soak you in sweat and deplete your energy.

The world record for the largest gathering of people wearing conical party hats is 1,161, set in 2019 at a grammar school in England, according to guinnessworldrecords.com. Can Chattanooga beat that number?

Get ready for awesome — or maybe awesome with an asterisk. A vacation-themed website has declared Monday will be the "most perfect day of the year" in Georgia and Alabama. Tennessee's similar superlative will come a week later, on July 25.

Christy Lindsey of Scottsboro, Alabama, said she hadn't realized the state's sales tax holiday is happening this weekend, but as soon as she found out Friday evening, she planned a shopping trip for her and son, Gunner.

Here's what's happening in the Chattanooga area this week.

River City Co. will introduce an eerie-sistible new event Saturday in downtown Chattanooga. Three and a half months before Halloween arrives, area residents can preview their trick-or-treat costumes, watch magicians and fire walkers perform and bring a carved watermelon for contest judging at Summerween at Patten Square.

A week after the 1 1/2-year-old emu went missing from the hobby farm where he lives in Soddy-Daisy, Bobo was reunited with owner Leslie Holdman about a half-mile away from home Monday afternoon.

A hobby farm in Soddy-Daisy is missing its most charismatic resident. Bobo, an "overly friendly" emu, fled the farm the night of July 4 after becoming agitated by nearby fireworks, according to his owner, Leslie Holdman.

Here's what's happening in the Chattanooga area this week.

A paracycling national championship, a celebration of peaches and a competition between Chattanooga and Knoxville blood donors highlight the Chattanooga area's entertainment calendar.

Here's what's happening in the Chattanooga area this week.

The long holiday weekend may be halfway over, but there's still plenty of fun to be had. Here are five things to know about the holiday.

With the Fourth of July falling on a Monday this year, you can count on celebrations to start in earnest in the weekend leading up to the official holiday.

Riverfront Nights kicks off with a Beach Boys tribute, Nightfall parties with a zydeco band and Parliament Funkadelic gets its groove on in a cave as the holiday weekend gets underway in the Chattanooga area.