Ben Benton

A Sequatchie County, Tennessee, man and owner of a well-known business in nearby Whitwell has been arrested on child sex abuse allegations in Alaska.

Two members of the beer board in Charleston, Tennessee, have been arrested on a five-count indictment alleging theft from a local nonprofit where they were leaders.

Tornadoes are the most dangerous form of severe weather in Tennessee, and the season for strong thunderstorms with the potential to produce deadly funnel clouds is looming large as spring nears.

A Chattanooga-based construction company has been fined by the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration over a fatal trench collapse at a job site in Cleveland, Tennessee, in August 2024.

Last year in Chattanooga was the warmest since weather information began being collected, with a record-breaking average temperature of 64.6 degrees, according to the Tennessee Climate Office.

Dr. Ben Carson, President Donald Trump's first-term secretary of Housing and Urban Development and once-rumored pick for surgeon general, will appear twice in Southeast Tennessee in 2025.

A Marion County judge has ordered Chattanooga developer John "Thunder" Thornton's company, Thunder Air Inc., to pay more than $211,000 in attorney's fees, costs and expenses over the company's retaliatory action to silence public critics of his 7,400-acre River Gorge Ranch development on Aetna Mountain.

A sprawling cemetery on Chattanooga's Missionary Ridge where Ed Johnson was laid to rest after he was lynched on the Walnut Street Bridge in 1906 has been nominated to the National Register of Historic Places, according to the Tennessee Historical Commission.

Chattanooga public works crews began a snow and ice road treatment plan Wednesday, focusing on primary routes and access roads for hospitals, emergency responders and emergency facilities to prepare for the possibility of 3 to 7 inches of snow.

The National Weather Service forecast is calling for a 40% chance of snow on Friday, increasing to 60% by Friday night, and the state's transportation agency is ramping up preparations as cold weather moves in this week.