EPB officials eager to build a new facility at the Enterprise South industrial park are having to wait to smell the flowers -- or at least to see if they will bloom this spring on part of their property.
The winter storm that cut off power for millions of Tennesseans just before Christmas is also being blamed for pushing up power bills for TVA customers next month.
Bob Corker, former Chattanooga mayor and Tennessee U.S. senator, is helping to lead an independent panel looking at how America's biggest public utility failed to deliver enough power to many of its 10 million customers during an arctic cold wave just before Christmas.
The Chattanooga development firm Rise Partners has purchased one of the last undeveloped blocks in downtown Chattanooga. The block has been used as a parking lot since the Civic Forum building was torn down on the site nearly two decades ago.
As Republicans gain majority control this month of the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Chuck Fleischmann has been appointed to head a congressional panel that oversees funding for the Department of Energy, the Appalachian Regional Commission, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
For the first time since 1976, the International Association of Machinists union is on strike at the water valve and fittings manufacturer Mueller Co. in Chattanooga after workers voted overwhelmingly Sunday to reject the company's latest contract offer.
Tennessee Valley Federal Credit Union (TVFCU) has long been one of the top automobile lenders in the area, but a drive launched in 2017 to diversity its loan portfolio with more home loans has helped Chattanooga's biggest credit union also to become the region's biggest mortgage lender.
Nine years after entering the Chattanooga market with a children's pool and training facility on the North Shore, Aqua-Tots will open another studio on Lee Highway next week.
Despite opposition from environmental groups and concerns voiced by the Environmental Protection Agency, the nation's largest government utility plans to build more natural gas generation to replace the power lost from shutting down its biggest coal-fired plant.
Seven former Kenco warehouses were sold last month for more than $67 million in the biggest property sale in Hamilton County in 2022.
