This aerial video image provided by KOAT 7 News, shows Santa Fe County Sheriff's Officers responding to the scene of a fatal accidental shooting at a Bonanza Creek, Ranch movie set near Santa Fe, N.M. Thursday,…
The Hamilton County School Board met Thursday night. The topic that brought in large crowds was school reading lists.
FORT OGLETHORPE, Georgia (WDEF) - The Catoosa County Fire Department is asking for the public's help in identifying an arson suspect from last night. The fire happened just after midnight, early Wednesday…
SPENCER, Tennessee (WDEF) - A popular state park on the Cumberland Plateau is getting a makeover. Fall Creek Falls has been building a new lodge for visitors to the scenic waterfall above Pikeville. Now it is close enough to completion…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - After Mayor Jim Coppinger announced that he won't be running for reelection, more Hamilton County lawmakers are addressing his legacy. "I think he's been a great leader. He's been…
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - The University of Tennessee System will make more families eligible for the UT Promise scholarships. During a Trustee committee meeting on Thursday, they announced their plans to raise the qualifying income level from $50,000 to $60,000.…
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (WDEF)- Startup week is using this week to focus on small businesses and entrepreneurs in Chattanooga. "I think Co-lab especially has done a great job really reigniting Chattanooga through this. I mean it’s been incredible 40-50 people I haven’t…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn (WDEF) - The city of Chattanooga is looking at the possibility of buying a hotel near Bonny Oaks. Officials say the Airport Inn hotel could potentially be turned into apartments for low-income…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn (WDEF) - Ever Since vaccinations have become readily available to the public, children under the age of 12 have been left out, leaving them vulnerable to the virus. But that is expected to…
The House voted Thursday to hold Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the committee investigating the violent Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Nashville’s Metro Council has approved implementing new regulations for the city’s numerous entertainment vehicles that often loudly cruise down lower Broadway. The Tennessean reports that the council voted 33-3 on Tuesday on an ordinance that establishes a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee man has pleaded guilty to civil rights violations for setting fires at four churches. The U.S. attorney's office said in a news release that 28-year-old Alan Douglas Fox of Nashville admitted during the plea…
Can new variants of the coronavirus keep emerging? Yes, as long as the virus that caused the pandemic keeps infecting people.
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week to a new low point since the pandemic erupted, evidence that layoffs are declining as companies hold onto workers.
The Coast Guard received multiple reports of a possible fuel spill off the Southern California coast earlier than previously disclosed.
Nine months after being expelled from social media for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, former President Donald Trump said Wednesday he's launching a new media company with its own social media platform.
An Alabama man who avoided execution in February is scheduled to be put to death Thursday for the 1991 killing of a woman taken at gunpoint from an ATM location and shot in a cemetery.
South Korea’s first domestically produced space rocket reached its desired altitude but failed to deliver a dummy payload into orbit in its first test launch on Thursday.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- Five people were able to escape a house fire this morning in Eastdale. The fire happened after 3:30 this morning in the 3700 block of Hemingway Drive. According to the…
A Los Angeles neighborhood just outside the nation's busiest port complex has become a perpetual traffic jam, with trucks hauling cargo containers backed up day and night as workers try to break through an unprecedented backlog of ships waiting to unload.
Tennessee labor officials say they are unable to reject a federal rule designed to protect health care workers from COVID-19 despite receiving stern instructions earlier this week from Republican lawmakers to do so.
The Cleveland Police Department hosted its Media Day to give local journalists a chance to understand how CPD operates and communicates.
Health problems tied to climate change are all getting worse, according to two reports published Wednesday.
Illegal drug use in the Tennessee Valley is following a dangerous trend, according to local officials.