The Tennessee Valley Authority announced today it has priced $1 billion of new 30-year global power bonds with an interest rate of 3.5 percent – the lowest rate ever on a TVA 30-year institutional bond.

The winter chill to the pocketbooks of those who heat their homes with electricity won't be quite as cold next month.

Name: Walnut Commons Cost: $11 million Location: Walnut Street and Aquarium Way

America's oldest skillet maker is forging ahead in 2013 with plans for one of its biggest expansions of its South Pittsburg, Tenn., plant in more than two decades.

EPB's newest high-tech venture got an old-fashioned sign of scorn on Friday.

A pair of vacant downtown office buildings will be restored as apartments next year to house up to 90 students at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Roger Williams is heading back to Florida today with a 55-gallon drum of gas in the bed of his Ford F-250 Super Duty pickup.

McCallie graduate Mark Oldham of Nashville bought the 16-room Stone Fort Inn in June and decided to add a public restaurant on the first floor

Location: McCallie Avenue and Houston Street What: Metro Building at UTC Owner: University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Developer Jack Kruesi is proposing to double the size of his Fox Run development with a new subdivision that will employ innovative sewage disposal, solar power generation and nearly four miles of hiking trails to maintain the natural appeal of Signal Mountain.

One of Tennessee's biggest independent banks has repaid its $50 million loan provided by Uncle Sam during the worst of the recent recession.

Chattanooga's biggest independent bank has been granted another six months to boost its company value to maintain its stock listing on the Nasdaq Exchange.

From rescuing an injured Dolphin to helping an orphanage in Haiti, middle school students enrolled in a new online training program quickly learn the value and fun of work in science, math and engineering.

Georgia Pacific is closing its cardboard box-making plant in Chattanooga, idling 60 employees within the next two months.

A Chattanooga web-based company that previously developed a testing and training curriculum used by more than 4 million job applicants and vocational students today launched what could be an even bigger online training initiative.

An investment group started a decade ago in Georgia by former SunTrust Bank portfolio managers is opening a Chattanooga office with the aid of another former SunTrust wealth manager.

For all the beautiful scenery, warm weather and tourism appeal of Hawaii, Prashant Sharan says he prefers the people and places of Chattanooga.

Tennessee's oldest mental health center is being acquired by the state's second oldest provider of mental health services and the biggest such provider in East Tennessee.

Fifteen years after closing its state-run export office to save money, Gov. Bill Haslam decided to bring back an office of international trade to put Tennessee businesses back on the world stage.

Fred Robinson was working nights and weekends at a local department store in 1983 when a friend called about a job opening in the mailroom at the Tennessee Credit Union League.

The Chattanooga area added more jobs in the past year than all of the rest of Tennessee.

The Tennessee Valley Authority expects to spend $55 million to fix a design flaw at its Raccoon Mountain Pumped Storage Facility and may have to delay scheduled closings of some of its oldest coal-fired units while such repairs continue until 2014.

Atlanta-based Workout Anytime is a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week fitness concept with 36 units in the Southeast.

The Tennessee Valley Authority boosted compensation for its top officers in fiscal 2012 to a record high despite a federal pay freeze.

The Tennessee Valley Authority boosted compensation for its top officers in fiscal 2012 to a record high despite a federal pay freeze.

RAINSVILLE, Ala. — Despite the federal pay freeze, the biggest federal employer in East Tennessee is boosting its year-end bonuses — which average $12,000 per employee — to nearly 12,000 workers next week.

RAINSVILLE, Ala. — The Tennessee Valley Authority is preparing to sell most of where the utility began.

RAINSVILLE, Ala. — The savings most TVA customers enjoyed paying their power bills in the past year will come at a cost for state and local governments across the Tennessee Valley in the next year.

RAINSVILLE, Ala. -- Despite a $727 million drop in power sales in the past year, the Tennessee Valley Authority still managed to cut its wholesale rates and end fiscal 2012 with a net income of $60 million .

The Tennessee Valley Authority helped land $5.9 billion of business investment during the past year, surpassing the previous record set in 2005 before the recent recession.

Chattanooga motorists may be filling up for less, but the price of electricity will go up again next month due to higher fuel costs to generate power in the Tennessee Valley.

"Our modern, upscale nail salon offers a truly unique nail experience such as the area's only manicure bar and VIP pedicure room."

Thousands of Chattanoogans insured by UnitedHealthcare are able once again to get care at Memorial Hospital without paying out-of-network charges.

With home sales slowing in her native Chicago, real estate agent Antonio Poland searched the country for a new home and career last year before landing in Chattanooga.

Project: Bradley Square Mall renovation. Location: 200 Paul Huff Parkway in Cleveland, Tenn. Investment: $18 million.

The Dixie Group, Inc. boosted income from continuing operations in the third quarter despite a dip in sales from the same period a year ago.

The economy was Chattanooga voters' chief concern Tuesday, but a majority expect their own financial situation will get better in the next year.

After barely winning his U.S. Senate seat in a $33 million slugfest six years ago, Bob Corker coasted to one of the easiest re-elections of any U.S. senator on Tuesday.

U.S. Sen. Bob Corker said tonight’s win has energized him to deal with the country’s fiscal issues and foreign troubles.

Tennessee’s senior senator sees the incoming CEO of the Tennessee Valley Authority as “one of the nation's most experienced and respected utility executives.”

The Tennessee Valley Authority has tapped the former head of one of the South's biggest electric utilities to be the federal power provider's next chief executive.

The former head of Progress Energy has been tapped to head the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Tennessee Valley Authority calculates that its energy efficiency initiatives in 2012 saved enough energy to power more than 35,000 Tennessee Valley homes for a year.

Two months after Memorial Health Care System ended a costly payment dispute with Tennessee's biggest health insurer, the Chattanooga hospital is fighting with another insurer over what it may charge for its services.

Mohawk Industries, Inc. has agreed to buy Pergo, a manufacturer of laminate flooring, for $150 million in cash.

Chattanoogans could ring in the new year with higher taxes, government furloughs and benefit cuts that threaten to push the economy back into recession.

Outpatient physical therapy may be what the doctor ordered, but such treatments don't necessarily have to be delivered in a typical medical environment.

Troy Hall earned more than $100,000 a year as a construction supervisor before the recession five years ago halted most commercial building projects and forced the 48-year-old builder to find a new career.

Fewer workers in Tennessee and Georgia seeking jobless benefits last month helped nudge the unemployment rate down in both states.

The store will be an outlet for locally made hats, soaps, lip balm and sandals.