Tierra Hayes

Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Bryan Johnson has been named as one of four national finalists for 2021 National Superintendent of the Year, according to a news release from the school system.

"Bring the heat," a new post on Walker County Schools' Purposity app profile reads. "You can help a family keep warm with a space heater."

When the Hamilton County school district's coronavirus reopening plan rolled out in August, using information on community spread to assign students to fully remote, hybrid and fully in-person instruction, there was very little historical data for guidance, school system Superintendent Bryan Johnson said.

According to United Way of Rhea Director Christine Ralph, while people come to United Way in search of Neediest Cases funding, they many times leave with a one-time donation and supplementary resources to keep them going.

Catoosa County has begun initial steps to create greater opportunity for new industrial operations to move to the area.

A recently approved multipurpose development will be coming to Walker County in the near future, bringing with it retail locations, green spaces and hundreds of new homes just off of Happy Valley Road.

For Rhea County, Tennessee, resident Charles Hancock Jr., the Times Free Press Neediest Cases Fund was a light during a difficult point in his life.

Catoosa and Walker counties will continue their partnership to provide each other with automatic dispatches for fires close to county lines.

The Catoosa County Board of Education voted on Nov. 3 to approve various new Education Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax projects after receiving feedback from hundreds of constituents.

Walker County Sole Commissioner Shannon Whitfield greenlighted two ordinances and approved a new ambulance contract during a commissioner meeting on Oct. 22.

For as long as he can remember, Cmdr. Edward Jewell always wanted to be a doctor, just like his father.

While for many the choice for president is cut and dried, some Chattanooga area residents have found themselves wavering or unsure of what to do as Nov. 3 nears in an increasingly polarizing election season.

While there has been record turnout for in-person early voting, North Georgia counties are also expecting a surge in absentee voting as people opt to vote remotely.

While 2020 has been a year filled with not-so-good news, it may be the perfect year for vivid fall colors in the Chattanooga area.

In an effort to modernize the county's permitting process, Walker County Sole Commissioner Shannon Whitfield introduced a proposed ordinance to create a special events permit during a public hearing on Oct. 8.

What is a coronavirus "cluster?" It depends on who's answering the question.

For Jamie Noble and her family, the transition to remote learning was anything but easy.

More than four months past the usual April 1 deadline for responding to the U.S. Census, much of the Chattanooga region lags behind the response rate for the census compared with the last census in 2010.

During the final Hamilton County school board debate on Wednesday evening, 16-year incumbent Rhonda Thurman and lifelong resident Stephen Vickers demonstrated strong commitments to the Soddy-Daisy community with contrasting approaches on how to advocate for that community and how schools should respond to COVID-19.

This isn't the first time that Chattanooga has seen civil unrest.