CHI Memorial’s mobile lung CT coach will provide computerized tomography (CT) screenings at Homeless Health Care of Chattanooga on Friday, Dec. 21, from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Lung cancer screening is a test to look for signs of lung cancer in otherwise healthy people. The low-dose CT scan shows a 3-D image of your lungs that is clearer and more detailed than regular x-rays, allowing ... (click for more)

Greater Chattanooga Colon Cancer Foundation leaders received a $10,000 donation from Ken Meredith, organizer of the Southeast MoParty Picnic. The donation came from the proceeds of the May 2018 picnic and drag racing event sponsored by Byrd’s Automotive, Crown Chrysler Dodge Jeep RAM FIAT Chattanooga and Locke Sign Company. These funds will support the GCCCF’s mission to increase ... (click for more)

An overflow crowd of Ooltewah residents opposed to a sewage plant "in their back yard" recommended on Wednesday that it go further north, perhaps Meigs County where TVA is building a major power center. Officials of the Hamilton County Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority (WWTA) said Mahan Gap Road is the best location and least expensive. Without a new plant, development ... (click for more)

Two earthquakes happened early Wednesday morning just north of Chattanooga, awakening many early in the morning. The earthquakes registered at 4.4 and 3.3 magnitudes at 4:27 a.m. Some people felt them in North Chattanooga and Ooltewah. They were also felt as far away as Atlanta. The epicenters were at Spring City and Ten Mile. The quakes were the strongest in the area ... (click for more)

The former Alstom industrial site on the riverfront and the former Harriett Tubman housing site in East Chattanooga both have a lot of redevelopment potential. And yet the city of Chattanooga seems to view them quite differently. Alstom is the fair-haired child; Tubman is the forgotten child. The Alstom area was recently designated as an "opportunity zone" in a new program ... (click for more)

I’ll admit it – I would rather hurt than take an opioid pain pill. Hydrocodone and its cousins scare the willies out of me because once when I was ‘drug sick,’ it was the worst sickness I have ever known. For somebody who always has somewhere that it hurts, I know that opioids are wonderful when used properly but because they are increasingly abused by society, there are now over ... (click for more)