Hertz filed for bankruptcy protection Friday, unable to withstand the coronavirus pandemic that has crippled global travel and with it, the heavily indebted 102-year-old car rental company's business.

The Chattanooga hotel market was the most occupied in the country in the week following devastating Easter Sunday tornadoes that displaced thousands of people and brought thousands more into town to help with recovery.

With my family's insurance renewals coming up, I've spent the past couple of months checking out home and auto coverage from different companies.

Sierra Cannon, who has served as sales director at Garden Plaza at Greenbriar Cove for almost five years, was recently named executive director at the independent living community.

In troubled times, people have been known to hoard currency at home - a financial security blanket against deep uncertainty. But in this crisis, things are different.

Think of the Atlanta airport terminal and the large maze that is the line that twists and turns, back and forth, to get travelers to security checkpoints.

Home sales in Chattanooga fell nearly 18% last month and the inventory of houses on the market fell by more than 26% as home-bound Chattanoogans were less likely to want to either buy or sell their homes during the worst of the coronavirus shutdowns in April.

As major Chattanooga employers report positive cases of COVID-19, companies say they're taking a wide range of steps, and spending money, to focus on worker safety.

After battling construction delays, the coronavirus and a meat shortage, Chris Bilbra and his wife Sarah have managed to fulfill a lifetime dream of having their own craft butcher shop and deli in Ooltewah.

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Volkswagen's Chattanooga plant on Friday reported a second incident of COVID-19 at its facility.

Amazon reported Friday that an employee at its Chattanooga distribution center at Enterprise South industrial park has tested positive for the coronavirus.

Taco Bell plans to hire at least 30,000 new employees to fill not only vacant jobs at its more than 7,000 restaurants but also to add new safety-focused and cleaning jobs to help limit the spread of the coronavirus.

Signs of renewed business activity are surfacing across the country as states gradually reopen economies and some businesses call a portion of their laid-off staffers back to work. Yet with millions more Americans seeking unemployment aid last week, the U.S. job market remains as bleak as it's been in decades.

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When the first coronavirus shutdowns were announced in March, hoteliers in the Appalachian town of Gadsden, Ala., said they did not want to host visitors from other states.

A Georgia man faces charges after authorities say he lied to his employer that he had tested positive for COVID-19.

When the first coronavirus shutdowns were announced in March, hoteliers in the Appalachian town of Gadsden, Ala., said they did not want to host visitors from other states.

The U.S. economy and housing market had set homebuilders up for a strong 2020.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits in the two months since the coronavirus took hold in the U.S. has swelled to nearly 39 million, the government reported Thursday, even as states from coast to coast gradually reopen their economies and let people go back to work.

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Dr. Thomas Devlin, a Chattanooga neurologist who helped Erlanger Health System gain national and international recognition in stroke care, has agreed with Erlanger to part ways, he said in a message to the Times Free Press.

Despite a steep drop in passenger traffic due to COVID-19, Chattanooga Airport has moved ahead with key projects as officials see an eventual end to the dreary state of air travel due to the virus.