While the well-known story that Benjamin Franklin wanted the wild turkey to be the national bird may be exaggerated, it is true that the founding father praised the wild gobbler's virtues in a ...

Lisa Benson's Free Press cartoon for July 10, 2025.

Michael Ramirez's Free Press cartoon for July 8, 2025.

Lisa Benson's Free Press cartoon for July 4, 2025.

The current structure of Hamilton County government was formed on the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion, the county's outgoing attorney, Rheubin Taylor, told commissioners during his ...

There's a simple, short-term reason Unum won't sell land near its downtown Chattanooga headquarters for a new U.S. courthouse: The company needs the parking spots.

NEW YORK (AP) — Extensive triple digit heat, broken temperature records and oppressive humidity piled up into a steaming mess as the heat dome crushing the Eastern half of the nation sizzled to ...

Nearly 2,300 representatives of the Presbyterian Church in America meeting in Chattanooga this week will debate and vote on 50 proposed measures, several of them revolving around Christian ...

Ben Sessoms Ben Sessoms is the Chattanooga Times Editor at the Times Free Press, representing the liberal side of the newspaper’s opinion section. Before taking on this role, he covered growth ...

The first female and first African president of the IOC, Kirsty Coventry, was inaugurated in the role Monday on the organization's 131st birthday with praise that the Olympic movement was “in ...

In a far from unexpected ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee's state law restricting gender-affirming care for transgender youth, opening the door for more states ...

Two men died Thursday evening after a shooting in the 2700 block of Dodson Avenue in an incident the Chattanooga Police Department is investigating as self-defense.