An area payment management company recently purchased the assets of one of its competitors that includes software programs to enhance and increase business.

Southern Lighting and Cabinets has increased its showroom space and boosted its retail business with a relocation to an East Brainerd complex in the heart of the region's largest retail cluster.

PROFILE * Name: Kenton Ridge * Location: Off Mae Dell Road, near Lee Highway and Hickory Valley Road.

DAYTON, Tenn. -- Lori Clift followed in her mother's footsteps when she went to work at McDonald's when she was just a 14-year-old girl.

President Barack Obama is urging banks to aid small businesses by freeing up money to lend, but officials are unsure how much help that will be.

The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Regional Planning Commission on Monday approved requests by two property owners to be annexed into the city.

A fitness center that helped rejuvenate the downtown area recently celebrated its 30th anniversary and continues thriving today.

CLEVELAND, Tenn. -- A local boat shop is the first marine retailer in the nation to receive a loan through a pilot program handled by the Small Business Administration, according to a national marine retailers group.

Richard Witt’s first job was at the Bi-Lo grocery store in Red Bank.

A former Chattanooga car dealer who pleaded guilty recently to a misdemeanor larceny charge in a U.S. District Court in New York is back in the automobile business.