Hamilton County Government will join Freedom Rings Global’s commemoration on the 76th Anniversary of the D-Day Landing at Normandy. Residents of Hamilton County and the region are encouraged to ring their bells at 6:44 p.m. this Saturday. The bells will begin ringing in Western Europe and will continue across the continent and the Atlantic Ocean to the United States and Canada. ... (click for more)

Here is the weekly road construction report for Hamilton County: I-24 Replacement of Belvoir Avenue bridge over I-24 and I-24 bridges over Germantown Road near MM 183: Lane shifts are in place on I-24 EB and WB under the Belvoir Avenue Bridge, at North and South Terrace approaching the Belvoir Avenue Bridge, and on Germantown Road under the I-24 Bridge. Single interior lane closures ... (click for more)

There has been another coronavirus death in Hamilton County - the fourth in three days. The new total is 19. There were 56 new coronavirus cases in Hamilton County, bringing the total to 1,275. There are 15 patients in Intensive Care. The state reported 13 new deaths from the virus, bringing the total to 401. There were 298 new cases. That brings the total to 25,120. ... (click for more)

A man was arrested Wednesday night on top of a downtown building armed with rifles and handguns. Police Chief David Roddy said Kevin Leiko was at 1417 Market St. across from the Chattanooga Choo Choo. He was found with an AR-15, and AK-47 and three loaded handguns. Leko, 35, resides at that address. Police acted on a tip that a man with a rifle was on a building along ... (click for more)

Since its inception, Friends of the Festival seemed bound and determined to make Riverbend a national event, ignoring the opinions of many Chattanoogans. Riverbend started as a local event drawing on the tastes and desires of local citizens yet has devolved into an outrageously expensive, super-crowded two-week-long free-for-all. Riverbend has drastically deviated from its original ... (click for more)

By ordinary standards it might be best described as one of life’s worst 1-2 punches, a pair of hard, personal blows that drop you to your knees. True, each devastating blow was uncommonly back to back. But, no, when I learned Wednesday morning that college football icon Johnny Majors had died just some 48 hours after another legend, Auburn’s Pat Dye, it was as though I’d been hit ... (click for more)