UPS move to sell Coyote Logistics highlights industry issues, challenges for Chattanooga’s ‘Freight Alley’
Area freight brokers hopeful despite the biggest firm hitting the skids

Area freight brokers hopeful despite the biggest firm hitting the skids

Nearly two years after making America's biggest appeal yet for carbon-free energy, TVA has awarded the first contracts to buy up to 600 megawatts of solar power and 20 megawatts of battery storage to be built during the next four years, according to the utility's quarterly financial report released Tuesday.

Shelly King, who has nearly two decades of plant management experience at Wacker, Invista and DuPont plants in the Chattanooga area, has been named the new site director of BASF in Chattanooga.
Another warehouse completed at $102 million Hixson-area development

Home sales declined in Chattanooga last year to the lowest level in the past five years as higher mortgage rates squeezed more homebuyers out of the market.

With fewer on-the-job worker injury claims and more stable costs for treatment, Tennessee is cutting the rates charged employers for workers' compensation for the 11th straight year.
The biggest research laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy is establishing a partnership with Chattanooga's electric utility to help test new quantum technologies to improve the security of the electric grid and develop more workers in Tennessee for the growing advanced energy and computer markets such technology will need in the future.

America's biggest public utility isn't public enough with its power plans for the future, according to environmental and citizen groups who conducted their own "people's hearing" on TVA's future power plan Thursday in Nashville.

Prices at the pump and the electric meter are getting cheaper, but last week's cold weather is still likely to boost most electric bills coming in the next month.

Frozen water lines on the side of Lookout Mountain cut off or limited water service for more than 3,700 customers of Tennessee American Water Co. in Lookout Valley and St. Elmo areas for most of the day Tuesday, forcing some businesses and schools to close.
