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…
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina redistricting ruling has set up a possible electoral windfall for congressional Republicans in preserving their U.S. House majority next year, declaring that judges should stay out of scrutinizing seat boundaries for partisan advantage.…
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has allowed one of the nation’s largest wholesale drug distributors to keep shipping highly addictive painkillers for nearly four years after a judge recommended it be stripped of its license for…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- A first of its kind device in Tennessee was deployed this morning along the Tennessee Riverwalk. (more…)
DALTON, Georgia (WDEF) - Dalton is getting $4 million from a state grant for a pair of projects in town. One is a streetscape renovation plan for Pentz and Cuyler Streets. It will improve sidewalks and landscaping to rest the…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Do you dread getting stuck in a line on the interstate for your Memorial Weekend? Thrive Regional Partnership joined the Tennessee Infrastructure Alliance today in suggesting some alternative routes that could be more appealing. So how did…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Volkswagen on Tuesday announced base prices for the 2024 Atlas SUVs made in Chattanooga. They are calling the 2024 versions of the Atlas and Atlas Cross Sport as a major refresh. The starting MSRP for the 2024…
UPDATE: Sequatchie County Schools have released some of their results. This was their statement: "Of the 137 third graders at Griffith Elementary School, 40 had to retake the online test. Once…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - The Chattanooga Zoo has released their first class of hellbender salamanders back into the wild. They are the product of the Hellbender Headstart Program which was created to help restore them because of threatened habitat. The program…
By LISA MASCARO, STEPHEN GROVES and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy both said they had a productive debt ceiling discussion late Monday at the White House, but there was no…
ATLANTA (AP) — Four people were injured when a crane partially collapsed at a construction site in Atlanta, police said. Police and firefighters rushed Monday to the site in the city's Midtown area. The four people who were hurt were…