ATLANTA (AP) — Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution announced Thursday they will build a $4.3 billion electric battery plant as part of Hyundai's new electric vehicle assembly plant in southeast Georgia. The companies will split the investment, starting…
MONRTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Friday gave final approval to general fund spending bills after sometimes tense disagreements over local projects and budget projections. Lawmakers worked through the night before giving final passage to the spending bills shortly…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- If you love live music and going to concerts, you're going to love some of Apple's newest features. Apple has just launched some…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Erlanger Health System recognized members of…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- The 40th Riverbend Festival is about a week away. One of the performers this year is Chattanooga's very own Brandon Davis,…
COPPERHILL, Tenn. (WDEF)- Polk County Commissioners are trying to combat what they are…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - A group that has often been critical of the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office issues their reaction to charges being dropped against a former deputy. A special prosecutor announced two weeks ago that they would drop all 44…
Chattanooga firefighters were busy Thursday morning battling a house fire in the Alton Park community. It happened at around 10:45 in the 3700 block of Dorris Street. Firefighters say they say heavy smoke from several blocks away, and arrived on…
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (WDEF) - Alabama officials have once again denied parole to Judith Ann Neelley for a murder that happened more than 40 years ago in our area. Neelley and her husband were convicted of the kidnapping, torture and murder…
By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The unofficial start of the summer travel season is here, with airlines hoping to avoid the chaos of last year and travelers scrounging for ways to save a few bucks on pricey airfares and…
TENNESSEE (WDEF) -- Governor Bill Lee authorized the deployment of 100 Tennessee National Guard troops to the U.S. Southern border on Thursday. This is while a national security crisis and surging drug crisis is happening due to the open border,…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- It's that time of the season when seniors are graduating from high school! But they're not the only ones moving on to the…
LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. (AP) — The 24 bright green baby parrots began chirping and bobbing their heads the second anyone neared the large cages that have been their homes since hatching in March. The Central American natives, seized from a smuggler…
ETOWAH, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Electric vehicles are the future. That's why Piedmont Lithium is investing nearly $600 million into a new plant in McMinn County. It's just one way the…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- Today marks one year since 19 students and 2 teachers were killed in a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. (more…)
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BLOUNT COUNTY, Tennessee (WDEF) - The Governor's Special Session on mass shooting safety got some opposition today. State Representative Bryan Richey has sent a letter to Governor Bill Lee asking him to call it off. Fellow Republicans Todd Warner and…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Chattanooga Police are investigating a double shooting last night in Alton Park. Officers were called to a shooting scene on West 37th Street after 10 PM. They found two men with non-life-threatening wounds. Both were taken to…
NASHVILLE (WDEF) - The Tennessee Department of Education has now released TCAP test scores for third grade ELA for each school system. Lawmakers set up this test to judge whether students are ready to move up to the fourth grade.…
DAYTON, Tennessee (WDEF) - Rhea County officials have release information on how their 3rd grade students did in the TCAP testing. They tell us that 29% of their third grades were flagged for possible retention. That number does not include…
NASHVILLE (WDEF) - The state has awarded Chattanooga State with a grant to create a new inclusive program for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. They are getting more than $400,000 from the Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (DIDD).…
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - Volkswagen Group of America is ramping up their research collaboration with the University of Tennessee. They have already partnered on 25 joint research projects over the last years. Now they are planning ten more partnerships through…
NEW YORK (AP) — Target is removing certain items from its stores and making other changes to its LGBTQ+ merchandise nationwide ahead of Pride month, after an intense backlash from some customers including violent confrontations with its workers. [caption id="attachment_1344761"…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Two former Alabama governors, from opposite sides of the political aisle, wrote in an opinion piece that they are now troubled by the state's death penalty system and would commute the sentences of inmates sentenced by…