Save money. Save the planet. Sounds like a win-win proposition, right?

If the idea of heading home for the holidays this year sounds ho ho horrible, head instead to one of the many area resorts that deck their halls in holiday cheer.

Ditch the paper gift wrap, bags and tissue paper this holiday season for the eco-friendly alternative of furoshiki (pronounced fu-row-she-kee).

The Shrum family Christmas party is a lot like any other family's yuletide gathering.

Despite what we've heard from Perry Como every Christmas since 1954, there are places besides home for the holidays. And plenty of people seek them out.

The familiar voice of the late Billy Graham echoes through the Bradley Square Mall in Cleveland, Tennessee.

Since he moved to New York City in the late 1970s, LaFayette, Georgia-born author, artist and designer Byron Keith Byrd has been busy.

If you are the kind of person who assumes what a singer is like based on the sound of their voice, do not make that mistake with Colter Wall. He is not a weathered 60-year-old who has lived a long, hard life and has been smoking a pack of cigarettes a day for the past 40 years. Instead, Wall is a multifaceted 24-year-old singer-songwriter with a progressive style.

As we prepare to celebrate the arrival of 2020, it feels appropriate to give a nod

The holidays are a time to celebrate — and celebrate we do.

I met Santa Claus at the Hamilton Place mall office on a clear, hot, autumn day. He arrived to the boardroom sporting a white button-down and a gold-embroidered vest. In his fist, he clutched his signature red fur-trimmed hat.

Do Mondays give you the blues? Chattanooga bluesman Rick Rushing has a cure: live music.

Flipping through self-help books is a thing of the past. When it comes to cultivating good mental health habits, more people are trading the book store for the app store.

Arline Mann, 71, thinks of herself as "a poster child for the new retirement." And she's right. According to a study by AARP, over 80% of baby boomers plan to continue to work in retirement and — just like Mann has done — 55% of them plan to do so in an entirely new field or industry.

Your digestive tract is teeming with bacteria — some good, some bad — and those microbes can seriously impact your health. The fact that microbes make up 99% of humans' DNA should give you an indication of how important they are to overall health, says Dr. Suzannah Bozzone, family and lifestyle medicine physician at The True Health Journey in Chattanooga.

Perhaps it was only a matter of time before our increasingly health-conscious society started to consider why it's normal to pass on dairy or gluten at backyard barbecues, but rejecting booze prompts a dozen questions. Enter the rise of the "sober curious" or "sober sometimes" movement.

It looks like a hamburger. It tastes like a hamburger. But it's not from a cow.

Hanging from an overhead bar, Landon Sawyer lifts his knees up to his waist and down, up to his waist and down. "Whew!" he blows out following his 10th repetition.

Name: Erwin M. Davis II

Located next to Coolidge Park in downtown Chattanooga, Adventure Sports Innovation offers some of the latest in recreation technology — an electric surfboard and the world's first all-terrain snowboarding device, for example.

Comfort food. Cheat meal. Guilty pleasure.

Tiffany Anich Mansito and Nick Mansito's blue front door is more than a cheery hello for their North Chattanooga neighbors. For the couple, who married in 2016, the brightly painted door serves as a public display of affection for their first home together.

Since moving to Chattanooga from my native Pennsylvania for this job three months ago, I've been thrown to the dogs when it comes to information overload.