Chattanooga TN

The Walker County Animal Shelter is encouraging the community to adopt a pet during the BISSELL Pet Foundation’s nationwide “Empty the Shelters” adoption event, which runs from July 5 through July 26. Shelter officials say they are in urgent need of adopters after experiencing a significant increase...

The Cherokee Regional Library System has announced a major expansion of the digital archive for the Walker County Messenger, giving researchers, students and residents access to keyword-searchable editions of the newspaper from 1889 through 1997. The newly digitized collection extends the archive well beyond its previo

This Sunday promises to be a fruitful one at the Chattanooga Market on the Southside. The annual Peach Festival offers all things peachy: salsas, candles, cobbler… and of course, farm fresh peaches. A few of the bigger farms including Hazelrig Peach Orchard, Georgia Peach Truck and RC Farms will have plenty of peaches

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A new partnership between Chattanooga State and ETSU is helping students jumpstart their careers. The program allows students to work in paid customer service positions while earning an associate degree in health sciences. The first group of students began the program last month, gaining hands-on e

DUNLAP, Tenn. (WDEF) — A small town gem is getting ready to make its return this weekend. The Sequatchie County Cancer Support Network puts on ‘Hee Haw’ each year to raise money for cancer patients in the community. It’s based on the variety show by the same...

FLINTSTONE, Ga. (WDEF) – A woman challenging the proposed gondola project at Rock City says she has filed an inquiry questioning the accuracy of the project’s traffic study. Last December, Rock City conducted a traffic study to evaluate how the proposed gondola would affect traffic traveling up Lookout...

CHICKAMAUGA, Tenn. (WDEF) – The City of Chickamauga has accepted a four-million-dollar EPA Brownfields Cleanup Grant to help clean up the former Crystal Springs Mill property. The textile mill, located near downtown Chickamauga, sat vacant for years after the factory closed. The buildings were later demolished, but cit

The Walker County Board of Commissioners will meet Thursday, July 9, at 6:30 p.m. at Courthouse Annex IV, located at 201 South Duke Street in LaFayette, with one of the meeting’s most closely watched agenda items being a proposed six-month moratorium on data center development. Commissioners are scheduled to...

SALE CREEK, Tenn. — There are fifty new channel catfish swimming around in my pond today - my first-ever "experimental stocking." Here's the background. My wife and I bought a home and property in Sale Creek six years ago. The property has a small pond - I estimate 1/4 acre, maybe 1/3rd. Sale Creek is all chert rock, n

The Fort Oglethorpe Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying a person of interest in connection with a theft investigation. According to the department’s Criminal Investigations Division, the individual shown in a released photo is being sought as part of an investigation into a theft that