Chattanooga,TN – (WDEF) The Chattanooga tourism company held its annual summit Tuesday afternoon. It’s the largest gathering of tourism industry professionals in the area. Popular travel show host Samantha Brown was the keynote speaker. You may know her from ‘Samantha Brown’s Places to Love’, a long running show on PBS. This year’s program also included a state of the industry…
It’s not as to who won or who lost, but whether Mayor Tim Kelly used his influence to tip the scales of the election.
HIXSON, Tenn. (WDEF) — During Sunday night’s 60 Minutes season premiere, when asked if the pandemic was over, President Joe Biden quickly gained the nation’s attention. “The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lotta work on it. … But the pandemic is over,” Mr. Biden said. On Twitter, many disagreed with President…
CLEVELAND, Tennessee (WDEF) – Looks to be a somewhat normal high school class. Teachers interacting with the kids. But what’s being done here is extraordinary. For these 12 students in Aviation Instructor Scott Campbell’s class are building an airplane. An actual FAA-approved, two passenger, four cyclinder RV-12iS airplane. “I myself have never built a plane. And neither have these students. But…
OOLTEWAH, TN (WDEF) – You won’t see the Harrison Bay Future Ready Center on Touchdown Friday Night. They don’t have a football team. Instead, students have trained their laser like focus on engineering. That team has earned National Recognition. That level of ingenuity in all-American example of what’s right with our schools. Jerry Webb is an Instructional Teacher at Harrison…
Earlier this month, New York’s Governor declared a state of emergency after detecting the polio virus in sewage samples. Our local Chattanooga Rotary Club is playing a hand in the continued eradication efforts. This year the United States saw its first case of Polio in nearly a decade. After an unvaccinated New Yorker got infected, the state began wastewater surveillance….
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) – Brainerd High School kicked off its Future Ready Program August 25th. Students were able to see some of the people and things that are locally available to them after graduation. The Chattanooga Fire Department was on hand, as well as a helicopter flying unit. Brainerd’s executive principal, Dr. Crystal Sorrells, says this is important for kids in…
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (WDEF)- A rough season for the Chattanooga Lookouts came to an end on Sunday with an 11-4 loss to the Tennessee Smokies. The Lookouts feel behind early giving up 4 runs in the first innings. Leftfielder Jacob Hurtubise hit a solo shot off the second pitch of the atbat t over the right field wall for his first…
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (WDEF)- UTC is now 3-0 early in this season but Saturday’s game against North Alabama started and ended in a blow out. However, there was a middle there that got interesting and gave the Mocs some adversity. Leading 20-0 the Mocs gave up two touchdowns an a 20 point led became a one possession game. That is when the…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) – Chattanooga held a runoff election Thursday for District 8 between incumbent Marvene Noel and Marie Mott. Things got testy on one side, and silent on the other. 48 hours after Noel was declared the winner, she spoke to News 12 about her win, her next order of business, and her runoff opponent, Marie Mott. “The people spoke….
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) – When Rhyne Howard won the WNBA Rookie of the Year Award three weeks ago, the Chattanooga area applauded, and for obvious reasons. Howard was born and raised in the area, and her mother, RJ Avery, was a standout basketball player at Brainerd High School. One of Avery’s teammates at Brainerd was a 6-4, powerful post player named…
Red Bank, TN-(WDEEF-TV) If you go to a Red Bank game you are going to hear the name A-D Crutcher time and time again The star senior is a defensive force at linebacker or safety and also leads the team in rushing News 12’s Brian Armstrong speaks with Crutcher and his coach about how he is able to fill up…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) — After two unusual years during the COVID-19 pandemic, things are beginning to look normal again at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The campus features fewer masks and restrictions, but it also features fewer students. Overall enrollment fell by one point five percent this year. “The decrease of roughly one hundred and thirty-two students FTE translates to…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) — For those looking to add a furry friend to the family for a family-friendly price, Chattanooga’s Humane Educational Society has quite the offer from Friday, September 16, to Sunday, September 18. The local shelter is partnering with the Utah-based Best Friends Animal Society during National Adoption Weekend to give plenty of animals a new home. From Friday…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) — Friday kicked off the first day of the weekend’s Impact Days for the United Way of Greater Chattanooga. More than 1,600 volunteers are stepping up to help assist the local community. Several were at Signal Centers today to help renovate a playground for the next generation of Chattanoogans. “We had a little storage place that was just…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) — Apple is out with some new iPhones, which have improved cameras, and even first of its kind safety features. “We’re going big with iPhone 14, and even bigger with iPhone 14 Plus,” said Apple CEO Tim Cook. Cook is hoping bigger is better for smartphone users, after announcing a new larger iPhone. The 14 Plus is…
Cleveland, TN-(WDEF-TV) It has been an outstanding season for the Cleveland high school volleyball team, and the good times continued on Thursday as the Blue Raiders won their home match against Walker Vallley 3-0. With the victory, Cleveland improves to 25-1 on the season. Categories: Sports – Local Sports News Tags: Blue Raiders, Cleveland, Cleveland High School, Game, local sports,…
Chattanooga-(WDEF-TV) The CCS girls soccer team was trying to stay unbeaten on the year Thursday night as they entertained power house Baylor. Match was scoreless at halftime, and then Baylor’s Jada Cooper scored twice in the second half to lift the Red Raiders to a 2-1 victory. Categories: Sports – Local Sports News Tags: Baylor, CCS, Jada Cooper, local sports,…
Chattanooga-(WDEF-TV) Big defensive lineman Devonnsha Maxwell may be the bell-cow of the Mocs defense, but teams can’t go to sleep on pass rusher Jay Person. The Bradley Central grad has two sacks in two games, and he has the tools to rack up a bunch more. Said head coach Rusty Wright:”Jay has come a long way since we got him….
DUNLAP, Tennessee (WDEF) – A true crime case from our area gets a national airing this weekend. The Cold Justice show profiles the disappearance of Tiffany Holbert in Dunlap in 2018. The last time she was seen was on an ATM security camera. Her story airs Saturday, September 17 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Oxygen True Crime. And it could…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) – If you are a fan of the show “Stranger Things,” one of the themes in the most recent season was parents’ reactions to heavy meddle music in the 1980s. It is a reference to the public debate lead by a Tennessee woman about music of the day. Tipper Gore was the wife of Tennessee Senator Al Gore….
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) — Today, voters in District 8 will decide who will represent them on Chattanooga’s City Council. The race is between incumbent Marvene Noel and Challenger Marie Mott. Mott won the popular vote in August, but has become the subject of controversy in recent weeks. If Mott wins, she would be the third person to represent District Eight in…
At Thursday afternoon’s Rotary Club meeting former city attorney Wade Hinton announced the launch of a new diversity study localized to Chattanooga. Hinton & Company’s new Community Culture Index (CCI) is the one of the first hyper local data driven assessment tools meant to measure a region’s performance in its inclusive practices, specifically in the workplace. Hinton said this study…
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) The rail strike has been averted. This is not just a win for rail workers, but for farmers as well. Farmers sat on pins and needles as rail workers touted a strike this Friday. Thankfully, a tentative deal between the major railroads and unions has been announced. A strike would have deadlocked the commodity supply chains at the…