College Hill Courts is Chattanooga’s oldest and largest public housing community in the Westside, dating back to 1940. Throughout the years, the Boynton Terrace Apartments, Gateway Tower, and Dogwood Manor were built, doubling the number of public housing units within the Westside District. The District encompasses the Golden Gateway area between U.S. 27, Riverfront Parkway, MLK ... (click for more)

Fifteen three-story townhouses are planned behind the Raceway on South Broad Street. The project by developers Hiren Desai and Jimmy White will be called The Flats at Southside Gardens. The townhomes will be at the corner of 25th Street and Cowart. There will be 62 parking spaces at the southeast corner of the block, which includes 1.27 acres. The rezoning case will ... (click for more)

Chattanooga firefighters prevented a two-alarm fire from spreading through a massive warehouse on Sunday afternoon. The call came out at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday to the WestRock facility on Compress Street off Manufacturers Road. WestRock makes cardboard boxes. Responding crews could see heavy smoke coming from the structure and knew they were dealing with an active fire. ... (click for more)

Tony Bigoms, 61, who was convicted in the 2012 murder of Dana Wilkes, died on Friday in a state prison. Bigoms was tried and convicted twice in the murder and dismemberment of Ms. Wilkes. Her body was found on the banks of the Chickamauga River. He was convicted of first-degree murder in 2014, but was granted a retrial after the court of appeals found issues with the sequestration ... (click for more)

Tennesseans have proven we are resilient and determined moving through the COVID pandemic response. Getting to this point in our state -- one of only a handful that has economic growth, open schools and an ability to see a light at the end of this proverbial tunnel -- has taken unbelievable effort. Yet, one revelation of many over the last year has been the need to reject those ... (click for more)

It was about midnight last night, just at the point we flip a page on the calendar, when the month of March arrived in the middle of a thunderstorm. You bet, just as it has for ages, this month arrives like a lion and eases out 31 days from now as a lamb. I could hardly mind the thunder; I am so glad to see the arrival of spring and the promise my flowers will awake from their winter’s ... (click for more)