Mike Carter, attorney for the Hamilton County Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority, told county commissioners Wednesday that the authority may have to hire a contractor to do some work for them.
The Georgia and Tennessee gubernatorial candidates who hail from the Chattanooga area are now both running on a platform that includes states' rights as a plank.
Though there were no major Tennessee races in Tuesday’s elections, U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and attorney Chuck Fleischmann, a Republican candidate for Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District, commented on the day’s significance.
Some local plumbers said Monday night that they were uneasy about requirements and pay levels in a Hamilton County Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority sewer line repair and replacement program.
Officials from two of the Northwest Georgia counties hardest hit by flooding last month say they still are not sure just how much damage was done, even though state and federal emergency workers are gone.
Hamilton County commissioners were all set to vote Thursday on accepting a $5.9 million building from Life Care Centers of America, but decided to hold off a week because a guarantee title wasn't available.
The Davidson County Republican Party voted Tuesday to remove First Vice Chairman Matt Collins, a vocal critic of gubernatorial candidates U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn., and Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam, from his position on the party's executive committee.
Less than two months after Life Care Center of Chattanooga closed its doors following a violation-ridden state inspection report, the nursing home's parent company has donated the now-vacant facility to Hamilton County.
Hamilton County Mayor Claude Ramsey and Commissioner Bill Hullander asked the city of Chattanooga today to take another look at its stormwater fees, which recently increased substantially.
You'll need both hands to count the number of Republicans running in the race to replace U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal, R-Ga., in Congress, but Democrats so far have barely lifted a finger.
Rural Americans have a tough time getting and affording health care, and they need health care reform, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday.
As rain trickled down outside, several dozen curious people gathered Tuesday evening at Orchard Knob Baptist Church on East Third Street to find out more about what they’ll need to get hired at Chattanooga’s new Volkswagen plant.
PIKEVILLE, Tenn. — U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., met with a friendly Bledsoe County crowd Monday, but a few audience members had some tough words for him about the war in Afghanistan.
U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., fielded questions today from a lunch crowd in Pikeville, Tenn., on topics including health care reform, the war in Afghanistan and a climate bill.
Senators from Tennessee and Georgia say there’s not much that would warm them up to a bill that calls for a 20 percent cut in greenhouse gases by 2020.
Federal legislation that would repeal a law exempting health insurers from antitrust provisions took heat Friday from insurers and members of Congress from Tennessee and Georgia.
Hamilton County commissioners were quick to say Wednesday that they didn't have anything to do with an increase in the city of Chattanooga's stormwater fee.
Hamilton County commissioners said they have gotten complaints from small-business owners and residents about an increase in the city of Chattanooga’s water quality fee.
When about 16 people stepped into the Hamilton County clerk's courthouse office late Tuesday morning to get marriage licenses, officials turned them away for one reason: They were same-sex couples.
For Tennessee House Speaker Kent Williams to get back in the good graces of the state GOP will be tough, but not impossible, party chairman Chris Devaney said Monday.
Chris Devaney, chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party, said Monday that state House Speaker Kent Williams has a long way to go to get back into the state GOP.
Though annexation and government consolidation both likely would mean higher taxes for residents in unincorporated Hamilton County areas, there’s one major difference between the two, annexation opponents say.
Audience members at Thursday’s Hamilton County Commission saw commissioners in a whole different light. That’s because the lights that usually illuminate the dais where commissioners sit were out.
Chattanooga and Cleveland, Tenn., each played host to a candidate for Tennessee governor Friday, with one pleading for education improvements while the other promised to get tough on drugs.
Hamilton County commissioners will vote next week whether to give local plumbers the opportunity to do work for the county's Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority without having to go through a lengthy bidding process.
The one GOP "yes" vote Tuesday on the U.S. Senate Finance Committee's health care bill is no predictor of how Republicans will view the bill that comes to the Senate floor, senators from Tennessee and Georgia said.
Hamilton County commissioners will vote next week on a resolution that the attorney for the county’s Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority says will make it easier for local plumbers to work with the authority.
Chattanooga attorney Chuck Fleischmann, who led Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District race in fundraising last quarter, today reported having raised in campaign funds $372,000 between Jan. 1 and Sept. 30 of this year.
Shooters will be back blasting clay pigeons on Mowbray Mountain in less than two weeks, said the attorney for owners of Montlake Classic Clays shooting range.
Hixson resident Robin Smith, a candidate for Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District, announced today she had raised more than $149,000 between July 1 and Sept. 30.
When Tennessee voters step into the voting booths next year, religious faith will be a factor in whose name they mark on the ballot, about half of the 2010 gubernatorial candidates said.
Hamilton County commissioners spent about a third of their Tuesday meeting congratulating Assessor Bill Bennett on his lifetime achievement award from the Tennessee Association of Assessing Officers.
U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said in a news release this week that the health care reform bill being debated in the Senate Finance Committee could cost Tennessee $735 million.
U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn., has taken some heat over his support of legislation that provides collective bargaining rights to police officers, firefighters and emergency medical workers.
The mayors of some of the Hamilton County cities outside Chattanooga say they might have an interest in combining services with the city and the county, but others are adamantly against it.
Hamilton County Mayor Claude Ramsey said today that he’s willing to work with Chattanooga officials and those from other cities to consolidate services, but he warned that it will take time and scrutiny.
Hamilton County commissioners and state lawmakers said Tuesday they will support efforts to boost two programs meant to help low-income households obtain telephone service.
Hamilton County's trustee and county commissioners say they're not hearing too many responses to the tax bills property owners have been receiving over the past week, but some taxpayers say they were shocked.