Best Buy closing store in Hixson after 17 years
Best Buy plans to soon shut down its store in Hixson, but the electronics retailer will maintain its other, older local outlet in East Brainerd.
Reignbow Baking Co. opening pastry shop at Eastgate in Chattanooga
Four years after opening a wedding and specialty cake business in a local commercial kitchen, Sierra Stollenwerk is rebranding and expanding her bakery business with a new eatery in the Eastgate Town Center in Brainerd.
Chattanooga is featured on Discovery Channel’s ‘RV There Yet?’
Local parks, attractions gain national TV attention
Cicis Pizza closes in Hixson, the latest of 8 eateries in the area to shut down
Other restaurants have opened nearby along Highway 153 and Hixson Pike
Machinists union ratifies new contract with Chattanooga’s Mueller plant after a week-long strike
Maintenance mechanics who walked off the job at the Mueller plant in Chattanooga earlier this month in a contract dispute with the water valve and fittings manufacturer agreed Wednesday to a new four-year contract.
Tennessee’s economy grew the second fastest of any state in 2022
Tennessee, which led the nation in economic growth in 2021, was displaced last year by Idaho as the state with the fastest-growing economy, according to estimates by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis through the first three quarters of last year.
Chattanooga gas prices jump by over 26 cents a gallon in the past week
In the biggest weekly jump in gas prices since last spring when fuel costs rose to a record high, the average price of a gallon of regular gas in Chattanooga increased by more than 26 cents a gallon in the past week, according to GasBuddy's survey of 170 local stations released Monday.
Striking mechanics return to work at Mueller after agreeing to 5-day contract extension, more talks
Unionized maintenance mechanics who went on strike at the Mueller water valve production plant in Chattanooga a week ago voted Sunday to go back to work Monday under an extension of the workers' previous contract.
Union membership grows the fastest of any state in Tennessee over the past two years
But organized labor still represents only 5.5% of the state’s workers
Atlanta developer building 334 apartments on Gunbarrel Road in Chattanooga
Three years after building one of the largest apartment complexes in Hixson, an Atlanta real estate and development company has begun work on an even bigger apartment complex near Hamilton Place mall in East Brainerd.
