The National Park Service and National Park Partners invite the public to join a celebration of the newest improvements to the visitor experience within Moccasin Bend National Archeological District, a 768-acre portion of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park across the Tennessee River from downtown Chattanooga. On Saturday, Oct. 20, at 11:30 a.m., three new interpretive ... (click for more)

The Hamilton County Parks and Recreation Department reports Enterprise South Nature Park will be closed Oct. 15 and 16 for a TWRA Quota Hunt.   This past spring, the TWRA informed the Hamilton County Commission the deer herd at ESNP is exceeding carrying capacity.   To ensure the continued health of the herd, TWRA recommended opening ESNP to a Wounded ... (click for more)

The city is setting new penalties for use of cell phones in school zones.  Drivers 18 and older may not use hand-held devices while in the zones, but they can be on their hands-free units. Another section of an ordinance change would not allow those 18 and under to be talking on a cell phone while driving. That includes even if the device is hands-free. The ordinance ... (click for more)

Five days after Watson and 108 other dogs were rescued from a dark, filthy puppy mill in Rhea County, the frightened 12-pound Yorkie mix doesn’t look like the same animal. Watson got lucky; he was one of the 28 puppy mill survivors that wound up at Chattanooga’s Humane Educational Society. There, volunteer groomers from Pet Smart shaved away the heavy, massive tangle of ... (click for more)

On Nov. 6, voters in Walker County, Ga. will vote on a referendum to determine if the county will move to a five person board of commissioners or stay with a sole commissioner form of government. The referendum is the result of several years of debate and discussion within the county. In 2012,  Dr. Paul Shaw, in his attempt to unseat then-Sole Commissioner Bebe Heiskell, ... (click for more)

I couldn’t tell you the first time I met John Gagliardi … 30 years ago? 40? … and I never saw him nearly enough. He was a Division III football coach at some monastery of a place in Minnesota and that’s a long way from the Southeastern Conference. Our orbits rarely overlapped but somewhere down the line we were at the same table for dinner. Once that happened, it seemed like the ... (click for more)