Thirteen percent of the people living in Hamilton County – around 60,000 people – have no health insurance. If they have a chronic health condition -- and many do – until a few years ago they had few options. But in 2011 Volunteers in Medicine opened a clinic in Chattanooga. There are four V.I.M. clinics in Tennessee. All the care they provide is completely free. The first V.I.M.clinic was started by Dr. Jack McConnell. He had retired to Hilton Head island in South Carolina where at that time in

Nearly 23, 000 tons of rock was removed from Lookout Mountain and repurposed to make way for new venues and enhanced amenities for visitors to the popular tourist attraction, Ruby Falls. The expansion was unveiled at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday, July 22.

An award-winning short film shot right here in the Tennessee Valley is now available online . WUTC’s Will Davis talked to filmmaker Erica Scoggins about The Sacred Disease.

The Chattanooga Times Free Press hosted the forum Monday evening on the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga campus. Democratic gubernatorial hopefuls Karl Dean and Craig Fitzhugh participated, as well as Republicans Randy Boyd, Beth Harwell, and Bill Lee. Watch below.

Sybil Baker’s While You Were Gone is the story of three sisters dealing with their father's death and uncovering secrets about him and other relatives who have passed away. They grow up in a large house on beautiful Missionary Ridge overlooking Chattanooga, and their extended family is part of the city's upper class. But the sisters feel shunned, and slowly learn why their family is fractured. Local readers will recognize many landmarks: the Walnut Street Bridge, Lamar's, and the University of

This Saturday, June 23rd, The Chattanooga Readers and Writers Fair is celebrating writing and reading from 10 am until 4:30 pm in the Chattanooga City Library. Writers will be reading from their work in the auditorium on the main floor, while on the 2nd floor there will be entertainment for the children. There will also be readings on the 4th floor, and vendors will be setting up booths on the 4th floor as well. From 12 noon until 1pm there will be an open mic on the plaza in front of the

Austin Kleon visits Chattanooga on Wednesday, June 20th for an event at the Downtown Public Library at 6 pm. Kleon's Steal Like An Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative is the first selection in Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke's Books With Berke club, examining themes of creativity, collaboration and changing the world. Berke and Kleon will speak at the event and answer questions, and Kleon will sign copies of his book; Starline Books will be there with copies for sale.

In Tennessee, we're ready to fight for freedom. We're known as as the Volunteer State because of our reputation for military service. But during the past few years' elections, we've been far less willing to get out and vote--our turnout numbers have been among the nation's lowest. Why? And how does it affect who gets elected? Shanna Singh Hughey, President of Think Tennessee , discusses it with us. They're a Nashville-based, nonpartisan think tank studying voting issues, election security, and

Chattanooga’s first festival of Black Arts and Ideas starts Thursday and continues through Tuesday, June 19 t h — the day known as Juneteenth, the anniversary of African American Emancipation. Over six days the festival will celebrate Black Americans’ contribution to theater, film, and music—concluding with a dramatic reading of the emancipation proclamation on the steps of City Hall. Richard Winham talked to the festival’s organizer, Ricardo Morris.

The Chattanooga area has already produced one Idol finalist. In 2011, a fifteen-year-old girl from Rossville, Georgia auditioned for the American Idol judges: Lauren Alaina made it all the way to the end of the show's tenth season, finishing in second place overall, which launched her chart-topping county career. American Idol ended five seasons later on Fox. Now ABC has rebooted it, with new episodes filming in the summer. And American Idol is giving other local residents a chance to grab the