Making the pitch: Tim Morgan leads campaign to bring more teams, individuals to Chattanooga
Tim Morgan played football in high school in Charlotte, North Carolina, until a a series of knee injuries kept him off the playing field.
Tim Morgan played football in high school in Charlotte, North Carolina, until a a series of knee injuries kept him off the playing field.
Over the past three decades, Chattanooga has added four new sports stadiums and is looking at expanding and building another two. Collectively, the baseball, softball, soccer and football stadiums have or are projected to cost, in total, more than $150 million in a town without a major league professional or top-tiered college team.
Unemployment benefits delayed this week for more than 12,000 Tennesseans due to a computer outage should be restored next week if, as expected, computer network service for the state labor agency is restored this weekend, officials said Thursday.

More than three times as many people have moved into Chattanooga as have left the metro area so far in 2022, making Chattanooga the top Tennessee city for the net inflow of new residents coming out of the pandemic.

Tennessee is suspending paying unemployment benefits to at least 12,000 unemployed workers due to a computer network breakdown by the vendor that handles the data processing for the state's unemployment benefits program.

Civil War park brought more than $61 million in spending to area economy, study finds
Area employers add 5,734 jobs in past year
Hundreds of fast-pitch girls softball teams are swinging their bats on area ballfields this week as part of the Scenic City Summer Showcase that is proving to be a home run for Chattanooga's $1.5 billion-a-year tourism industry.
The Tennessee Valley Authority led most utilities in decarbonizing its electricity generation in the past decade, but a new study suggests the federal utility will likely move slower than many of its neighbors in the future in cutting greenhouse gases linked with global warming.
After more than 40 years of operating a 34,000-square-foot grocery store along Ringgold Road on the south end of East Ridge, Food City has moved across the street to open a new and expanded supermarket that adds a Gas 'N Go fuel station, a food cafe, a credit union office, and a broader offering of produce and grocery items.