The Georgia Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) recently donated two ballistic vests to the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office, which serves Catoosa, Walker, Chattooga and Dade counties.

Tennessee American Water announces that the company’s 2020 Water Quality Reports are available to customers on the company’s website, tennesseeamwater.com.

ATLANTA - First-time unemployment claims in Georgia rose last week (week of April 4) even as initial claims nationwide fell dramatically.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock has drawn the first Republican challengers in his bid to hold the seat he won in historic fashion during the 2020 election cycle.

April is Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention Month. The Children’s Advocacy Center of the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit has created a unique window display to raise awareness of the issue in our local area.

Kelly Bomar, a first-term Ringgold council member and a Ringgold native, announced Thursday, April 15, his reelection campaign.

ATLANTA - Students at Georgia’s 26 public colleges and universities won’t be hit with a tuition increase this fall for the second year in a row.

White House officials highlighted sluggish highway traffic, slow bus travel and spotty rural internet service in Georgia Monday, April 12, as part of pitch to boost support for President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure package.

Proposed legislation that would pave the way for heavier logging trucks on Georgia’s roads hit a roadblock after officials, including Walker County Commission Chairman Shannon Whitfield, opposed the bill. 

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced a photo contest for her District 14 constituents.

Despite major changes to the 2021 SkillsUSA State Leadership and Skills Conference, Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) students received six medals, one for each category entered, during the event.

On Monday, April 12, Georgia Sen. Jeff Mullis, a Republican from Chickamauga, released the following prepared statement. Mullis represents Senate District 53, which includes Catoosa, Dade, and Walker counties and portions of Chattooga County. He is chairman of the Senate Rules Committee.

♦ Bell, Zachary James, 28, 1116 S. Chattanooga St., LaFayette, Ga., simple battery (family violence)

On Friday, April 9, the Catoosa County commissioners accepted the resignation from Alicia Vaughn as county manager.

ATLANTA — Nearly 400,000 unemployed Georgians who filed claims with the state Department of Labor last year at this time are going to have to refile with the agency to continue receiving benefits.

Gov. Brian Kemp is set to roll back longstanding COVID-19 distancing restrictions in Georgia amid a mix of relief and concern from local businesses and public-health experts.

ATLANTA - The Georgia Department of Labor has surpassed a major milestone.

The first wave of candidates have thrown their hats in the ring for key Georgia elective offices including lieutenant governor and secretary of state amid bitter partisan battles over the state’s new election law.

Ringgold City Council member Kelly Bomar received the prestigious Certificate of Achievement from the Harold F. Holtz Municipal Training Institute from the Georgia Municipal Association.

Drug task force agents arrested three men, including a man from LaFayette, in a drug bust Monday, April 6.

ATLANTA — When the dust settled from this year’s General Assembly session, environmental advocates were looking at some success but mostly disappointments.

ATLANTA — Elections, pandemic recovery and the echoes of last summer’s protests against police in Georgia dominated a 2021 legislative session marked by bitter divisions between Georgia’s political parties.

ATLANTA — Elections, pandemic recovery and the echoes of last summer’s protests against police in Georgia dominated a 2021 legislative session marked by bitter divisions between Georgia’s political parties.

ATLANTA - The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday, April 1, sided with Georgia in a lawsuit Florida filed in 2013 over the allocation of water that flows between the two states.

A Fort Oglethorpe man, whose passenger died after he wrecked during a police chase in October 2019, has pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide.

The Marietta Daily Journal interviewed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Wednesday concerning Georgia’s controversial new elections law. The law has put the state in the national spotlight as Democrats denounce it as an exercise in voter suppression while Republicans call it common sense. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

♦ Frady, Dakota Ray, 23, Caroline Drive, Rossville, Ga., probation violation (felony), possession of methamphetamine, drugs to be kept in original container; crossing the guard line with weapons, intoxicants or drugs

The 2021 legislative session was a mixed bag for police supporters, gun owners and criminal-justice reformers in Georgia who saw several key bills stall as the clock ran out Wednesday night, March 31.

Gov. Brian Kemp is rolling back restrictions on public gatherings and a shelter-in-place order for elderly-care facility residents that have been in place since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Catoosa County jail inmate who escaped Tuesday, March 30, was back in custody the next day.

ATLANTA — The General Assembly signed off on Gov. Brian Kemp’s $27.2 billion fiscal 2022 state budget Wednesday night, March 31, during the waning hours of this year’s legislative session.

ATLANTA - Legislation repealing Georgia’s 150-year-old citizen’s arrest law gained final passage in the General Assembly Wednesday, March 31.

Home-school students in Georgia would be allowed to play sports and join clubs at public schools under legislation that cleared the General Assembly Wednesday, March 31.

ATLANTA — The General Assembly decided Wednesday, March 31, to leave the standard versus daylight saving time debate up to Congress.

A bill requiring Georgia colleges and universities to report hazing incidents that happen in school clubs like fraternities and sororities passed in the General Assembly Wednesday, March 31.

ATLANTA - A lot of legislative business remains unsettled entering the final day of this year’s General Assembly session.

ATLANTA - Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger pushed back Tuesday, March 30, against criticism of the elections overhaul the Republican-controlled General Assembly passed last week (week of March 21).

Catoosa County Coroner Jimmy Spurling is working amidst the ongoing coronavirus pandemic to reduce preventable deaths by helping to administer thousands of COVID-19 vaccines at the Catoosa-Dade-Walker Vaccination Station at the Colonnade since taking office on Jan. 1.

Catoosa County deputies are working with area law enforcement partners to locate 22-year-old David Matthew Faulkner, an inmate and trustee at the Catoosa County jail who walked away from a landscaping work detail on the jail property.

Marketing Management student Stephanie Kuhrt was named Georgia Northwestern Technical College’s (GNTC) 2021 Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) winner and Jeremiah Cooper, program director and instructor of Welding and Joining Technology, was selected as the college’s 2021 Rick P…