Company announces their deal to buy the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant is almost done
If the deal goes through, it could bring thousands of jobs again to northeast Alabama.
Young Artists decorate Traffic Boxes for East Chattanooga streets
Students from East Chattanooga competed to beautify several traffic boxes in their neighborhood.
Global Goalscast: Who's making progress on their development goals?
The global Sustainable Development Goals For ten days in July, global delegates met at the United Nations in New York to discuss their progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, and the news was not all good. The SDGs – targets…
Fire at old East Brainerd Elementary building
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Chattanooga firefighters responded to a blaze on Monday at the old East Brainerd Elementary School on East Brainerd Road. It happened around 3:30 AM. The building has been abandoned for years. But firefighters pulled a mattress from…
Athens Park Bloods gang members pack court again for hearing
44 people charged by the district attorney's office with Class B felonies that carry a 12-to-20 year sentence on conviction.
Police looking for driver who hit man walking on Norcross Road
The man walking this morning in a neighborhood was killed.
Trump welcomes Italy's PM Giuseppe Conte to White House amid EU trade negotiations -- live stream
President Trump is welcoming Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to the White House on Monday, the latest member of the European Union to hold meetings with the president amid ongoing trade negotiations over existing tariffs. Conte's visit follows that of…
"Morons": Outrage after cruise ship guards shoot polar bear dead
Authorities search the coastline, Saturday, July 28, 2018, after a polar bear attacked and injured a polar bear guard who was leading tourists off a cruise ship on the Svalbard archipelago archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole. The…
Police say man kills himself after shooting into an Athens home
Police say the man had come to break into the home of his estranged wife.
Trion mobile home fire ruled arson
TRION, Georgia (WDEF) - An investigator with the Insurance and Safety Fire Commission of Georgia has ruled a fire last week in Chattooga County as an arson. The fire happened at an empty mobile home on Airport Road in Trion…
ISIS kidnaps dozens of women, girls in deadly Syria raids
A war monitoring group says Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters seized 36 women and children during simultaneous attacks on the southeastern province of Sweida last week. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday that 20…
2 U.S. cyclists killed in possible terror attack in Tajikistan
A file photo shows a touring bicycle parked along the M41 Pamir Highway, in the Pamir Mountain Range of Tajikistan. iStockphoto MOSCOW -- U.S. and Tajik officials say that two American cyclists and two others have been killed in a…
Hundreds of tourists trapped by quake now descending volcano
Indonesian and foreign climbers are seen after walking down from Rinjani Mountain at Sembalun village in Lombok Timur, Indonesia, July 29, 2018. ANTARA FOTO SEMBALUN, Indonesia -- Hundreds of tourists stranded on Mount Rinjani on the Indonesian island of Lombok…
Tennessee Healthy Parks Healthy Person Program Receives Award
A program that rewards Tennessee State Parks visitors for participating in outdoor activities has received an award for integrating time spent outdoors with health care. The Healthy Parks Healthy Person program was developed last year and allows participants to use…
13 killed as van carrying wedding party slams into truck
Debris is pictured across the road after a van headed to a wedding party crashed in the early hours of the morning along a road in Quang Nam province on July 30, 2018. Vietnam News Agency/Getty HANOI, Vietnam -- A…
Pope accepts resignation of archbishop convicted of sex abuse cover-up
Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson is seen leaving Newcastle Local Court in Australia, July 3, 2018. REUTERS VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of an Australian archbishop convicted of covering up the sexual abuse of children by a…
"Mafias" targeting sea mammal with fewer than 30 left in world
BAJA, Mexico — There's a crisis going on in the Pacific Ocean as an innocent porpoise falls prey to money and greed. CBS station KPIX reports it's a marine mammal known as the senorita of the sea or the panda…
For 1st time in almost 40 years, a Zimbabwe election without Mugabe
HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Zimbabweans on Monday were voting peacefully in their first election without Robert Mugabe on the ballot, a contest that could bring international legitimacy and investment or signal more stagnation if the vote is seriously flawed. About 5.5…
Probe into Flight 370 mystery highlights shortcomings
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- An independent investigation report released Monday more than four years after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared highlighted shortcomings in the government response that exacerbated the mystery. The report reiterated Malaysia's assertion the plane was deliberately diverted…
TWRA: Ooltewah man died after kayak tipped over at Harrison Bay State Park
HARRISON BAY STATE PARK, Tenn. (WDEF) - TWRA officials are at Harrison Bay State Park looking for a missing person after a boating accident. Dispatch says officers were dispatched for a possible drowning. The victim is a 27 year old…
Island-Hopping: Tourism in the Galápagos
Summer vacation season is in full swing. Orlando is this year's top tourist destination, according to AAA, followed by Honolulu and Anchorage, Alaska. Or, you could get creative and go island-hopping with Conor Knighton: "It seems to be a little…
Magnitude-6.4 earthquake strikes Indonesia's Lombok island
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A strong earthquake has struck Indonesia's Lombok island, which is not far from the tourist destination of Bali. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had a magnitude of 6.4 and its epicenter was 1.4 kilometers (0.8…
Magnitude-6.4 earthquake strikes Indonesia's Lombok island
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A strong earthquake has struck Indonesia's Lombok island, which is not far from the tourist destination of Bali. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had a magnitude of 6.4 and its epicenter was 1.4 kilometers (0.8…
Polar bear killed after attacking cruise ship employee
BERLIN -- Norwegian authorities said a polar bear on Saturday attacked and injured a polar bear guard who was leading tourists off a cruise ship on an Arctic archipelago. The polar bear was shot dead by another employee, the cruise…