The Hamilton County Board of Commissioners are making plans for phase four of maintenance and facility improvements for Hamilton County Schools. At Wednesday’s meeting, commissioners discussed a resolution that would set aside $13.5 million for improvements. That allocation includes repairs at the Chattanooga School for Arts and Science and to bring a turf field to…
Road construction and closures are happening at the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) Catoosa Wildlife Management Area (WMA) over the next few weeks. TWRA spokesperson Mimi Barnes says Genesis Road, or State Route 298, is expected to be closed through October for a road repair project south of Adam’s Bridge over the Obed River and…
(Bloomberg) — Ford Motor Co. unveiled plans for a new line of budget electric vehicles in a $5 billion bid to achieve the mass appeal that has so far eluded its money-losing EV business. The automaker’s new “universal EV platform” represents its first battery-powered models fully designed from the ground up, after early efforts such as the F-150…
Memphis Mayor Paul Young, a Democrat, has said he does not support National Guard troops being deployed to the city despite President Donald Trump telling Fox News on Friday that the mayor did. Newsweek contacted the White House press office and Tennessee Governor Bill Lee for comment on Saturday via email and telephone respectively outside…
Elon Musk’s The Boring Company has provided Mayor Freddie O’Connell 18 pages’ worth of responses to the city’s questions about plans to dig a tunnel from downtown to Nashville International Airport. But a back-and-forth between the parties in recent days highlights the complications of dealing with a boundary-pushing startup protective of its trade secrets while…
Google-backed nuclear startup Kairos Power has entered into an agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority to supply up to 50 megawatts of electricity from its Hermes 2 reactor to the grid in Tennessee and Alabama by 2030. Kairos Power and Google say the deal is the first time a U.S. utility has committed to buying…
Mason, Tennessee — The small West Tennessee town of Mason, just 2 square miles in size, is home to about 1,000 people. But its residents are now divided by what a new immigration detention facility will mean for the area. Shannon Whitfield has lived in Mason for 13 years. Earlier this month, Mason’s town leaders…
CAMDEN, Tenn. (WSMV) – The Benton County School system is adopting a new cell phone policy this year in response to a new state law. HB932/SB897, which was effective on July 1, “requires all Tennessee public school districts to limit the use of cell phones and other personal communication devices during instructional time,” BCS said….
A hiker died in Tennessee’s Savage Gulf State Park after being bitten by a venomous snake, officials said Thursday. Grundy County Emergency Management Agency personnel were dispatched to a trailhead in the park around 12:30 p.m. local time on August 8, agency director Matthew Griffith told CBS News in a statement. The unidentified hiker was…
A mother, father and child were killed when a tree fell on their car during heavy rain and flooding in Tennessee, an official said Wednesday. The three were killed when saturated ground caused a large tree to fall in the Chattanooga suburb of East Ridge just after midnight, Hamilton County Office of Emergency Management spokesperson…