HAMILTON COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) -- A firefighter died in a motorcycle crash on Birchwood Pike in Harrison on Wednesday. The Highway 58 Volunteer Fire Department gave the tragic news on Friday morning. They identified the victim as firefighter Tris Lirette.…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- The Chattanooga Fire Department announced on Friday it has a new Swiftwater Rescue Team. The team is made up of 26 firefighters who learned new…
UPDATE: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- The Chattanooga Police Department upgraded a shooting investigation on Arlington Avenue to a homicide investigation. According to police, a 19-year-old man and a 21-year-old man were shot on May 1 on Arlington Avenue. Now, both…
UPDATE: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Chattanooga Police have made an arrest in a shooting that occurred in April on Tunnel Boulevard. CPD arrested 29-year-old Geonta Gaines on May 1. Police said…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- The Armed Forces Day celebration in Chattanooga took place on Friday, May 3, 2024. This is the 75th anniversary of Chattanooga's Armed Forces Day. Historically, the event highlights one specific branch of the military each…
SKYLINE , Alabama (WDEF) - A suspect was killed and a police officer wounded in a shootout last evening in Jackson County, Alabama. The Sheriff's Office says deputies responded to a home on a domestic call on County Road 143…
Chattanooga, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Silverdale academy is getting some big changes in the near future. Today the school held a groundbreaking for their new building, and it will be…
UPDATE: Investigators now say the shooting Thursday evening on Vulcan Lane in Harrison was a case of self-defense. And the "victim" has now been charged, himself. Hamilton County investigators…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - A historic school in downtown Chattanooga will soon be getting needed upgrades. The school building that houses the Chattanooga School for…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- We are learning more about how students at the Catoosa Career Academy are preparing for their future in healthcare. Representatives from the medical field recently…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A legislative committee on Thursday advanced a bill to allow state inmates, for the first time, to speak by phone or video conference at their parole hearings. The House Judiciary Committee approved the bill after adding…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Tennessee American Water company is asking regulators for a rate increase. If approved, they say it should cost about $4 more per month on customers' water bills. Their last rate increase was approved a dozen years ago.…
Johnson & Johnson said Wednesday it has offered to pay $6.5 billion to settle allegations that its talc products caused cancer, a key step in the pharmaceutical giant potentially resolving…
President Biden on Thursday said "order must prevail" on college campuses, as some of the pro-Palestinian protests have turned violent, insisting it's his responsibility to protect the "rule of law" as much as freedom of expression. But Mr. Biden told…
President Biden on Wednesday called longtime ally Japan "xenophobic," along with China and Russia, blaming their economies' recent performances on racial prejudice. The president made those remarks during an off-camera fundraiser to mark the beginning of Asian American and Pacific…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - A Hamilton County Commissioner says he is under investigation by the Tennessee Comptroller’s Office for funds used for a satellite office. Satellite offices are used by…
CHATTTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - The Hamilton County Drug Recovery Court presented updated statistics on Wednesday showing the extent of the local drug crisis. During a presentation, the court said…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Hixson High School took some major new steps this week for the future of their school. They announced their…
HAMILTON COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) - A resolution about vacation rentals will be discussed next week at Hamilton County Commission. It will be discussed in a committee session after next week’s regular meeting on Wednesday, May 8. This resolution, proposed by…
HAMILTON COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Hamilton County authorities have reported a house fire near the Montlake Golf Course in Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee. According to the Office of Emergency Management, the fire…
MACON, Ga. (WDEF) -- Georgia lawmakers from both parties are banding together to push through the first national park in the state. Georgia's two democratic senators and many House republicans, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, announced…
Dueling groups of protesters clashed Wednesday at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and using sticks to beat one another. Hours earlier, police burst into a building at Columbia University that pro-Palestinian protesters took over to…
United Methodist delegates repealed their church's longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding "self-avowed practicing homosexuals" from being ordained or appointed as ministers. Delegates voted…
APISON, Tenn. (WDEF) -- A motorcyclist died in a crash at the intersection of Bates and Alabama Roads in Hamilton County on Tuesday. The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office…
