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TVA to charge data centers more for power under separate rate
Federal utility did not raise residential power bills

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Chattanooga leaders praise $130M Southside project Station 33 at groundbreaking
A team of local Chattanooga developers broke ground Thursday morning on Station 33, a $130 million development on the Southside set to include shops, a food hall, a pedestrian plaza, condos and a hotel.

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Studio Ours opens coworking space, offers free trials this month
A local arts store and creative space in a historic Southside building has opened its first floor as a coworking space.

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University of Tennessee at Chattanooga debuts local Mocs branded lager ahead of football season
This football season, tailgaters will have a new, hyper-local brew option — Mocs Gold Lager.

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Nashville Metro Council advances drone restrictions for surveillance
As debate about law enforcement's embrace of surveillance technology continues to swirl around the country, Nashville's Metro Council on Tuesday passed on the second of three readings a bill to restrict the future use of drones by Nashville police. It comes after the Metro Nashville Police Department wrapped up its trial of a Drone as First Responder (DFR) program in Madison earlier this month.

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ICE changes location of Tennessee call center site from Adams to Nashville
The location of a planned U.S. Department of Homeland Security national immigration enforcement call center has changed from Adams to Nashville, a federal contract database shows.

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Tennessee tabs road-building group for $9B toll lanes project
A Tennessee transportation board selected a road-building group Wednesday to fund and build toll lanes from the southeast Nashville area to Murfreesboro as part of a package in which the contractor locked up the bid by agreeing to pay the state nearly $25 billion over the life of a 50-year contract.

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DGG tops Dynamite Dozen list, leads Baylor into matchup of elites
Baylor's David Gabriel Georges is No. 1 on the 2026 Times Free Press Dynamite Dozen list of the area's top college football prospects among Chattanooga-area seniors.

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Tennessee Republican balks at nuclear campus, waste storage
An East Tennessee Republican lawmaker is challenging the governor's support for bringing a massive nuclear facility to East Tennessee, saying the risk of storing nuclear waste is greater than any economic benefits.

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Rock City reveals map of possible nine-phase expansion starting with gondola
Rock City brought a map of a potential nine-phase expansion to community meetings this week with residents who oppose its plan to build a gondola up Lookout Mountain, Georgia.
