Adolph Ochs, who acquired The Chattanooga Times in 1878 when he was only 30 years old, helped usher in a new era of journalism when he went to New York City and in 1896 bought The New York Times.
Nearly two years after closing the Shallowford Road Wendy's restaurant near I-75 due to the traffic congestion and pandemic cutbacks, the local franchisee has opened a new $4.2 million Wendy's restaurant nearby on Gunbarrel Road.
When Emily Moth moved to Chattanooga in March, the veteran retail manager was eager to use her business background at a local floral shop.
Three years ago when the Associated General Contractors was looking for a new training ground to get more workers to go into construction, Chattanooga City Councilman Chip Henderson suggested the local building association consider an abandoned elementary school in East Chattanooga.
To maintain more than 3,000 miles of electrical wires throughout Chattanooga, tree removal crews for EPB regularly cut nearly 50,000 trees, limbs and branches every year.
While driving the new zero-emission semitrucks that Chattanooga-based Covenant Logistics has bought from Nikola Corp., truckers said they not only enjoyed the quieter, smoother ride on the battery-powered trucks, but they also were frequently approached by others wanting selfie photos to post on social media with the drivers and their innovative new carriers.
To decarbonize and electrify America's economy, the head of the nation's biggest public power utility thinks several hundred new nuclear reactors may be needed in the next generation, including 20 or so new smaller reactors across the Tennessee Valley.
In the biggest home sale in Chattanooga history, a Montana investor has bought a riverfront home in Lookout Valley for $8.7 million.
With land costs increasing and family and household sizes decreasing, a growing share of homebuyers is opting for townhomes instead of traditional detached single-family homes.
As EPB's manager of fiber services engineering and one of the utility's tech pros, Matt Anderson has been testing EPB's new Smart Net Plus for the past nine months.
