The Tennessee Housing Development Agency has released its list of nominees for the 2017 Tennessee's Best Awards. Winners in the seven award categories will be announced at the Tennessee's Best Luncheon held  Sept. 21  at the Governor's Housing Conference in Nashville. Categories for this year's awards include Excellence in Partnership, Best in ... (click for more)

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Chattanooga Area teamed up with Lowe’s for Lowe’s Centric Day on Thursday.   More than 30 Lowe’s employees devoted a day to work alongside Habitat officials  to complete neighborhood development projects in Historic Glass Farm Neighborhood located in East Chattanooga.   Lowe’s awarded Habitat for Humanity of Greater ... (click for more)

Three Chattanooga firefighters early Wednesday morning carried an unresponsive woman from a burning house in Lookout Valley.   At  3:08  a.m., firefighters were dispatched to a house fire at 111 Centro Ave.The 911 dispatchers told the responding firefighters that someone may be trapped inside. Upon arrival, the firefighters observed smoke and flames coming ... (click for more)

Prosecutor Cameron Williams on Tuesday asked a Criminal Court jury to find Derek Morse guilty of three counts of first-degree murder as well as attempted first-degree murder in a massacre at a Lookout Valley RV Park on April 9, 2014. Morse, who was 19 at the time, is standing trial in the courtroom of Judge Barry Steelman. Skyler Allen, who was 22 when the shots rang out, ... (click for more)

To all concerned, I believe there was mistake printed in a recent article stating to send donations to me at the school. I would ask that all donations be sent to the Greater Chattanooga Community Foundation to the attention of the Ed Johnson Memorial. This project is in no way affiliated with HCDE schools. All funds are housed there and are tax deductible. Mr. Savage ... (click for more)

Over half of Florida is still trying to catch its breath and now there is another murderer, one named Maria, mauling Puerto Rico this morning on her way to the United States. On August 25 Hurricane Harvey hit Texas. It killed an estimated 50 people, displaced more than a million people and damaged some 200,000 homes in a path of more than 300 miles. The bills haven’t been sent out ... (click for more)