Chattanooga has experimented with and promoted electric vehicles for nearly a half century as home to one of the first electric vehicle test tracks, an early electric bus manufacturer, a national research and advocacy group and the country's first all-electric bus shuttle that has operated downtown for 30 years.
Chinese natives Quan Ren Lin and his wife, Xiu Feng Lin, came to the United States nearly three decades ago and began working in New York City.
The bank began in 1904 Marion Trust and Banking Co. and changed its name to First Volunteer Bank in 1999 when the bank acquired Volunteer Bank and Trust in Hamilton County and moved its headquarters to downtown Chattanooga.
A Tennessee congressman who has been critical of the monopoly the Tennessee Valley Authority has over electricity distribution in its seven-state region wants to tear down the utility's territorial fence and allow other power suppliers to come in.
Tennessee environmental leader not endorsed by committee after controversial tweet
Nearly a century after his death in Chattanooga in 1935, newspaper publisher Adolph Ochs was memorialized Thursday with a historical marker near the downtown Knoxville building where the future owner of The Chattanooga Times and The New York Times began his newspaper career as a carrier at age 11 for the Knoxville Chronicle.
The Tennessee Valley is expected to be spared from most of the storms and damages from Hurricane Ian, but with 2.6 million homes and businesses losing power in Florida hundreds of local electrical line workers and repair crews have headed south to aid in the storm recovery.
The North Georgia mansion and farm built nearly a century ago by Peerless Mill founder John L. Hutcheson is being redeveloped into a senior residential campus which will include a $14 million assisted living center scheduled to open in early 2024.
After more than a decade at the helm of Project Return and a year after bringing the nonprofit program to Chattanooga, Bettie Kirkland is stepping down as CEO at the end of October.
Bank deposits in Chattanooga grew nearly 10.2% over the past year, or more than twice the statewide growth rate for savings accounts at all Tennessee banks, according to a new report from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
