CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (WDEF) - Chattanooga City Mayor Tim Kelly and the city’s chief of staff had a discussion about the plans for Chattanooga’s future including an early look at who could be the new Chattanooga police chief. It was a…
Chattanooga’s Southside experienced a large housing and commercial revitalization with the opening of a new building.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Republican Katie Boyd Britt has entered the race for Alabama’s open U.S. Senate seat. In a Tuesday announcement video, Britt stressed her work for U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby and her leadership of a state business group,…
KNOXVILLE (WDEF) - After over a decade, Cicadas have finally started to emerge again throughout Tennessee. This brood of Cicades, known as Brood X, last emerged in May 2004. But a horticultural specialist at the University of…
The rise of catalytic converter thefts has alarmed both consumers and law enforcement alike. In 2020 alone, the National Insurance Crime Bureau reported over 1200 converter thefts a month. But a new Tennessee consumer law hopes to…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Chattanooga Police have charged two teenagers with the murder last month at a gas station on Highway 58. 47 year old Ralph Smith was shot around 4:30 in the afternoon. Investigators have arrested two 16 year old males…
Dayton Boat Dock is hosting the Major League Fishing Bass Pro Tour this week with the top anglers across the country competing for the grand prize of one hundred thousand dollars. "This is the highest professional level…
Chattanooga's Riverbend Festival has been delayed again because of the coronavirus pandemic.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn (WDEF) - Alzheimer's disease affects over 5 million people nationwide. On Monday the Food and Drug Administration approved a first of its kind treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease. It's the first drug to be approved to help…
JASPER, Tennessee (WDEF) - A former assistant with the Marion County Extension Office has been indicted for theft. Courtney Conley was an administrative support assistant for the UT Extension Office. They provided Agricultural and Family educational programs for citizens. Conley's…
Tennessee’s annual free fishing day is Saturday.
ETOWAH, Tennessee (WDEF) - Shooting victim in stable condition after a standoff in McMinn County on Monday morning. It happened around 10:30 AM in Etowah. Police were called to an alley at 10th Street and Washington Avenue. A witness said…
New home, new shows for new season
CHATTANOOGA, TN (WDEF) - Ricardo Morris is the CEO of the Chattanooga Festival of Black Arts and Ideas. He explains, "We are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Wall Street, black Wall Street massacre in Tulsa Oklahoma,…
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (WDEF)- Broadway will be back in Chattanooga for the 2021-22 season after being unable to complete last year's show schedule. The arts have been some of those hardest hit financially by the pandemic. Fiddler on…
BRADLEY COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) "It's gonna be great for this funding here for this community but then as those funding opportunities become available all over the state there will be funding opportunities." Tennessee will receive more than…
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (WDEF) - She hasn't gone public yet, but Katie Boyd Britt has filed the paperwork to run for the U.S. Senate seat open in Alabama next year. She filed with the Federal Election Commission on Friday. That was…
Bradley County Deputies are on the trail of Derrick Leon Middlebrooks Jr. Middlebrooks led law enforcement on a car chase that started in Bradley County and ended in Hamilton County Friday afternoon. He crashed on I-75 near Exit 4. That's…
"I betcha that thing could hold water, and I betcha I could make a pool out of it," says Ryan DeLoach about his Swimpactor. This Athens couple is turning trash into treasure, literally. The couple is transforming…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - Former Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke announces his next plans. He will work as a government consultant and a professor. "I will be assisting companies and governments through Cityfi, a consulting company with a reputation for innovation and…
(WDEF) - Car crashes are the number one cause of death of teenagers between 16 and 19 according to drive SmartGeorgia.com. "A young man and his name was Joshua was killed in a car wreck and his…
Chattanooga Police Chief David Roddy has announced that he will retire on July 30, 2021.
Two Tennessee men face hearings this week after their recent arrests on charges related to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Jeff Bezos will ride his own rocket into space next month, joining the first crew to fly in a Blue Origin capsule.