A zoning case on a 53-acre industrial site in Lookout has been delayed for a month. Bill Ramsey is the owner of the property behind Covenant Transport at the Cummings Highway exit of I-24. Donna Adams Shepherd of A.D. Engineering said there was an issue over whether the zoning needed to be M-4 or the current M-1. She said plans are to remove a section of a hillside and break ... (click for more)

The Planning Commission on Monday turned down a short term vacation rental request on Dogwood Drive after opposition from a number of neighbors, including Rep. Greg Vital. The request was by Tyler and Melissa Hunt of Ooltewah. They said they purchased the five-bedroom house at 5920 Dogwood Dr. as a family retreat and also wanted to rent it out on occasion. Rep. Vital and ... (click for more)

Chattanooga Police said two people were shot early Thursday morning as they lay in bed at their residence in Hixson. At 1:30 a.m., Chattanooga Police responded to a shooting at 4900 Lavender Trail. Police were advised that two people suffering from non-life threatening injuries had driven themselves to a local hospital for treatment. They were a man 22 and a woman 26. ... (click for more)

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg on Thursday announced that the Biden-Harris Administration has awarded $63 million to support three projects in Tennessee from the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) program to help move forward on projects that modernize roads, bridges, transit, rail, ports, and intermodal transportation and ... (click for more)

Assurances have been given of a much larger and varied utilization of the 141-acre former Wheland Foundry/U.S. Pipe site, not merely a new stadium for the Chattanooga Lookouts. Discussion of the proposed new stadium for Chattanooga has dominated the use of the dormant site. Additional usages of the property itself as well as “ripple effects” of the development intentionally move ... (click for more)

It has been almost 20 years since Bruce Feldman, a marvelous sportswriter for theathletic.com and Fox Sports, came up with the idea of identifying the “Freaks” of college football. Wait, being called a freak is a good thing, a very good thing, on a football team. It means you are so strong or so fast or so “athletic” that your own teammates and coaches stand in awe, be it in the ... (click for more)