Williams Street, between 1400 and 1410 Williams Street,  will be closed on  Wednesday  and  Thursday, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m.  for water meter installations. L ocal traffic still able to access businesses and residences from East Main Street. View CDOT's map of event and road closures   for full details of projects underway ... (click for more)

Hixson Pike will be closed from Black Oak Circle to Lupton Drive  on Wednesday  and  Thursday, from 9 a.m. until 2:30 p.m.  for road paving. Additionally, outside of the hours for repaving, Hixson Pike will continue to have one lane for each direction from Black Oak Circle to Lupton Drive. Vehicles are urged to take an alternate route, such ... (click for more)

City officials said they plan to offer a parking lot on King Street used by city employees to the public for parking on nights and weekends. Cherita Allen, deputy economic development director, said it will be managed by Republic Parking. The city is having to spend money on the lot because water runs off it to an adjacent building being developed by Hiren Desai. Ms. Allen ... (click for more)

A hearing has been delayed on a lawsuit brought by the Tennessee Democratic Party seeking to keep Republican Robin Smith off the ballot in House District 26. Ms. Smith was the only candidate after longtime Rep. Gerald McCormick abruptly announced he was leaving his post to move to Nashville. Chancellor Jeff Atherton on Monday afternoon said he could not take the case until ... (click for more)

The city of Chattanooga currently has no history center or museum. That is because several years ago it was conveyed to the public, in the blinking of an eye, that $9 million that had been raised mysteriously vanished for reasons unexplainable to this date. In the meantime, valuable artifacts and collections are sitting in cellars, basements and storage facilities instead of being ... (click for more)

There was a time, not so long ago, when school-aged children would learn lessons from a prescribed text, such as a textbook. Today texting is far, far different and, as any of our teachers will tell us, cell phones have become the scourge of education. In almost every classroom, kids will silently text in the shadow of the desk in front of them rather than focus on the lesson. Yet ... (click for more)