Chattanooga, TN

Hamilton County, TN

Signal Mountain, TN

SIGNAL MOUNTAIN, TN (WDEF) – A lifelong love of reading can begin with a good librarian. Nolan Elementary School certainly has one. In fact, Laura Dowd is the Hamilton County Librarian of the year. Laura explains, “It’s absolutely, absolutely is a huge honor. Again, I’m shocked because we have...

What’s Right With Our Schools: Nolan Elementary’s Laura Dowd

Tennessee State

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- ‘The Ides of March,” usually refers to the 74th day of the calendar year, which lands around March 15th. Today, Cempa Community Care held their annual “Strides of March” walk in the fight against HIV and AIDS. For the 28th year in a...

‘Strides of March’ returns to Chattanooga for it’s 28th year

Cleveland, TN

CLEVELAND, Tennessee (WDEF) – An elementary school in Cleveland has been evacuated this morning because of a construction mishap nearby. Ross Primary school and administration have been move to Yates Primary as a precaution. No one has been injured.

Construction gas leak causes school evacuation in Cleveland

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) — Riverbend has released their daily schedule for their 2023 festival. Tuesday, single-day wristbands will go on sale. Riverbend says there are only a limited number of single-day wristbands for sale. They went on sale today. You can purchase them, or the three-day wristbands, here. Single-day...

Riverbend releases daily schedule

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- Rock the Riverfront encouraged lots of movement in downtown Chattanooga today for it’s second weekend back to the Riverfront. “Get up & move” was the theme for this Saturday’s events. Anyone and everyone could attend, and all of the events were free of charge.

Rock the Riverfront invites guests to “get up and move”

Chickamauga, GA

CHICKAMAUGA, Ga. (WDEF) — The National Park Service (NPS) is planning to conduct a prescribed fire in the Chickamauga Battlefield this week. The fire will be north of Viniard-Alexander Road. Depending on weather conditions, it will take place sometime during the week of March 27. Viniard-Alexander Road will be...

Prescribed fire this week at Chickamauga Battlefield

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- Following this weekend’s powerful storm EPB is continuing to restore power. As of 5:30p.m., 850 customers are still experiencing outages. EPB has been able to restore power to more than 11,150 other customers. The company deployed 580 utility workers repairing power system throughout today. Damage to...

EPB outages following storm: UPDATE

CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) – Voting has begun to help local entrepreneurs fulfill their dream. Ten Chattanooga businesses are competing for five awards in the Tennessee Valley Federal Credit Union’s Idea Leap Grant competition. Then another eight are battling it out for three grants in the Cleveland area. Voters will...

People’s Choice voting opens for TVFCU Leap Grants

Harrison, TN

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) – A young boy has had to fight through a lot of adversity throughout his young life. Despite long odds, he has lived to see his second birthday. Brittany Hinman, the mother of Griffin Hinman, recalled that, “We were just having a colicky day is what I thought it was, it was scary for me because I didn’t want a colicky baby, but little did I know what we were about to head into.”

Blood Donation Drive to Honor Child Who Survived Rare Disease

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- Following a storm with high winds that swept through the Chattanooga area early Saturday morning, EPB is continuing to restore power. Roughly 5,309 customers are experiencing outages as of 4:30 p.m.. EPB has been able to prevent lasting outages by the use of a Smart Grid. More...

EPB works to restore power outages following storm

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- This evening, Chattanooga police responded to a shooting at a local hotel. Once receiving a call at 6:56 p.m., police responded to the 2400 block of Williams St. in Chattanooga. Two victims were found suffering from non-life-threatening gunshot wounds. They were quickly transported to a local hospital.

Chattanooga Police respond to a hotel shooting

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- Chattanooga Police responded to a call this morning that resulted in a shooting. The department received a call about a suspicious person lurking around a home. Police arrived to the 800 block of Ashland Terrace, where they encountered an armed suspect. He was ordered multiple times to...

Chattanooga Police respond to suspicious lurker that resulted in a shooting

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) — Chattanooga rentals have risen this year, according to a survey by Zumper. One-bedrooms have risen 18.8% since this time last year, and two-bedrooms have risen 16.9%. They have risen since last month as well. One-bedrooms rose 0.2% and two-bedrooms rose 0.5% this past month. The...

Chattanoga rental home prices rising

Ridgeside, TN

Rossville, GA

Red Bank, TN

Lookout Mountain, TN

Lookout Mountain, GA

Lupton City, TN

East Ridge, TN

Flintstone, GA

Fort Oglethorpe, GA

Hixson, TN

Wildwood, GA

Walden, TN

Whiteside, TN

Graysville, GA

Ooltewah, TN

Powells Crossroads, TN

Ringgold, GA

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Boyd Buchanan Has Six Athletes Sign on National Signing Day

National Signing Day was a big affair at Boyd Buchanan on Wednesday as six student athletes signed...

Boyd Buchanan Has Six Athletes Sign on National Signing Day

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