Girl Scout Cookie season ends soon
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Girl Scout Cookie season is here, but it won't be for long. The 2024 cookie season generally lasts from January through April. Locally, Girl Scouts will be…
4 Hamilton County schools receive voter registration award
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - Four Hamilton County schools were honored Friday morning for their voter registration efforts. The Chattanooga School Arts and Sciences, the Chattanooga School of the…
Another old Southside Foundry is being redeveloped
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - The sale has gone through to turn another of Chattanooga's old Southside foundries into a new mixed-use development. The Eureka Foundry shut down after 121 years last…
Mourners to gather for the funeral of a slain Georgia nursing student who loved caring for others
WOODSTOCK, Ga. (AP) — Family, friends and classmates planned to gather Friday at a church outside Atlanta to say farewell…
Girl Scout Cookie Eating Contest on News 12
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Generations of Girl Scouts were celebrated on the first day of March as they enter prime cookie selling season. The News 12 This…
Frazier Avenue could see traffic changes by end of March
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- After a tragic wreck that killed a mother and her son on Frazier Avenue, the city implemented a new traffic calming pattern.…
Thursday Throwback: 1994 Female Pastors
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- For this week's Thursday Throwback, we continue to look at a series from 30 years ago about churches in our area. A topic they were struggling with in 1994 is still being debated in 2024: Can…
Family questions if justice served as 2019 murder suspect receives sentence
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- On September 12, 2019, 20-year-old Darrell Hill was murdered during the commission of a robbery in Cromwell Hills. Thursday, the last suspect…
Learn if your child is ready for kindergarten through survey
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Parents of young children in Hamilton County are being asked to evaluate if their kids are ready for kindergarten. This is being conducted…
Two men killed after construction collision in Cleveland
UPDATE: CLEVELAND, Tenn. (WDEF) -- The Cleveland Police Department has shared an update regarding a Thursday morning crash in Cleveland. While authorities are still investigating the incident, they identified the two people killed in the crash and the type of…
Suspect arrested in Florida over January Dalton Road Rage incident
DALTON, Georgia (WDEF) - On Thursday, U.S. Marshals arrested a suspect in Florida on charges from a road rage incident in North Georgia. The incident happened on West Walnut Avenue in Dalton on January 28. Investigators say two drivers were…
Alabama lawmakers rush to get IVF services restarted
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers rushed to protect in vitro fertilization services Thursday after fertility clinics shut down in the wake of a state court ruling that frozen embryos are children under the state wrongful death law. Facing public…
Leap Day deals for 2024
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Leap days happen every four years, and some businesses are offering deals to the public to celebrate the extra day this year. Here is a list of deals you may be able to find on February…
Access to Benton Falls interrupted during tree removal
BENTON, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Hikers will not have typical access to Benton Falls temporarily starting on March 5 for hazardous tree removals. The Cherokee National Forest announced on Thursday that…
A Willy Wonka "immersive experience" turned out to be a partially decorated warehouse. Some parents were so angry, they called the police.
Willy Wonka's chocolate factory is a magical, colorful place with a chocolate river, edible flowers and Oompa Loompas bustling about. But a "Willy Wonka" event in Glasgow, Scotland that was billed as an immersive experience turned out to be less…
Shopping center redevelopment coming to East Ridge
EAST RIDGE, Tenn. (WDEF) -- A real estate development group has a redevelopment planned for East Ridge. Urban Story Ventures announced on Wednesday they recently purchased a 13-acre…
Biden and Trump to hold dueling events at the southern border today
Washington — President Biden is set to visit the southern border on Thursday. But his won't be the only visit to the region— former President Donald Trump will also make an appearance in a different Texas border town, in a split-screen evident of…
Federal judge blocks Texas' SB4 immigration law that would criminalize migrant crossings
Eagle Pass, Texas — A federal judge in Austin on Thursday blocked Texas state officials from implementing a sweeping immigration law that would have allowed them to arrest, jail and prosecute migrants who cross into the U.S. illegally. The Justice Department…
Video shows person of interest in explosion outside Alabama attorney general's office
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Authorities on Thursday released a video showing a person of interest in their investigation of an explosive device that detonated outside the Alabama attorney general’s office last weekend. The short security camera clip shared by the…
Sheriff: Signal Mountain student charged with making violent threats
HAMILTON COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) -- A student is facing charges for making threats against other students at Signal Mountain Middle/High School. The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office said the school's SRD learned of the threat on Wednesday, February 28, at 10…
State audit finds UT overpaid a few of their scholarships
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WDEF) - The University of Tennessee may look at scholarship offers a little closer next year. A state audit found that the university over-paid some scholarships in 2022-23. The auditors looked at all 14,260 students who got Title…
Early morning shooting outside of apartment complex
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Police are investigating a shooting on Wilson Street earlier Thursday morning. The incident took place outside of the Bayberry Apartment complex. News 12 reported CPD on the scene in the 2300 block of Wilson Street. It…
CALEB shares their vision for affordable housing at city council
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - Chattanoogans in Action for Love, Equality and Benevolence, or CALEB, voiced their concerns Tuesday night at City Council. CALEB presented their own…
Driving Our Economy Forward: Clumpies Ice Cream at Howard
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - Students at the Howard School are getting the scoop on business success from Clumpies Ice Cream. The business which started in Chattanooga in…
