Chattanooga is one of a handful of U.S. cities chosen by a national nonprofit group promoting city-led efforts to provide more consumer education and protections against predatory lending.

The heiress to the Golden Flake potato chip empire is for now back in control of her fortune after a ruling Thursday by the Alabama Supreme Court.

Verizon's decision to join the growing boycott against Facebook and Twitter risks hurting the social media giants where it hurts most: their advertising revenue.

Happy Fourth of July!

With many Chattanooga-area fireworks displays canceled to prevent large crowds from gathering during the COVID-19 pandemic, retail sales of firecrackers are skyrocketing in the Chattanooga area and nationwide as more people move their July Fourth celebrations to the backyard.

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Stocks closed broadly higher on Wall Street Thursday as investors welcomed a report showing the U.S. job market continues to climb out of the crater created by the coronavirus pandemic.

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It's been a "roller coaster" for the owners of Shuford's Smokehouse since late last month, when the restaurant faced a wave of social media harassment after it took a nearly $1,000 order to provide food during a rally in support of law enforcement.

When Mahdi Hashemian was looking for a bicycle for his 7-year-old daughter Zeynab last week, the Cambridge, Massachusetts, resident decided to skip his local cycle shops in favor of a Black-owned one a few miles away in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood.

Tennessee's biggest bank completed its merger with the largest bank in Louisiana Thursday to create a combined bank with over $79 billion in assets and operations in 11 states.

U.S. employers added a substantial 4.8 million jobs in June, and the unemployment rate fell to 11.1%, as the job market improved for a second straight month yet still remained far short of regaining the colossal losses it suffered this spring.

Volkswagen Chattanooga is reporting that the number of positive coronavirus cases among individuals who've entered the plant since mid-March has risen to 26.

Historic numbers of background checks to purchase or possess a firearm were done in June, a trend in a year marked by uncertainty over the coronavirus pandemic, a subsequent economic recession, protests over racial injustice and calls to reduce police funding.

Sales of new vehicles in Hamilton County rebounded sharply in June, up 27.7% from May, as automakers and dealers offered rich incentives and low interest rates.

TuSimple, a self-driving startup business operating in the United States and China, is opening what it calls the world's first "Autonomous Freight Network" under a partnership announced Wednesday with major trucking firms, including the Chattanooga-based U.S. Xpress.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee celebrated the economic improvement of four rural counties in the state on Wednesday, which he said has led to the Volunteer State having its lowest number of distressed counties since before the 2008-2009 Great Recession.

A new study by a libertarian think tank ranks Chattanooga as the most free city among Tennessee's four biggest cities, but Chattanooga still has more regulations and costs than most of the state's 30 biggest cities, including nearby cities like East Ridge and Cleveland.

Stock indexes ended mixed on Wall Street Wednesday, even as the market extended its winning streak to a third day and gains in technology companies pushed the Nasdaq to an all-time high.

Chattanooga's biggest bank temporarily closed one of its branches for extra cleaning after a member of the overnight cleaning team working in the bank office tested positive for COVID-19.

Volkswagen of America on Wednesday reported that sales in the April through June period fell 29% over the same time last year as the coronavirus-related lockdowns weighed on automakers.

If you're ready to take your consumer packaging business idea to the next level, Proof and CO.LAB have partnered to create a virtual Consumer Goods Accelerator, a 10-week program for early-stage companies, and has a new class ready to start later this month.

CBL & Associates, the operator of Hamilton Place and Northgate malls in Chattanooga, has received more time to work out a deal regarding the repayment of some of its debt.