In a city that delivers blazing-fast internet, looms large on the logistics landscape, and mints start-ups of every type, Phillip D. Glass is easy to overlook. Sitting blithely on that water tower along Riverside Drive, Glass cheerfully represents what we've long taken for granted in this city along the Tennessee River — clean, abundant water.

At age 33, Cameron Doody stepped back this fall from his career for the past nine years building one of Chattanooga's most successful startup businesses to focus on his family, friends and his next venture.

Fillauer Companies President Traci B. Dralle says that everything the Chattanooga-based orthotic and prosthetic device maker does is focused on patients in order to provide the best functional solutions for them.

Based on student enrollment in the current 2020 school year, less than half of the biggest 4-year colleges in the Chattanooga region grew student enrollment this year compared with last year.

The median annual wage in Tennessee in 2018 for the nearly 3 million employed Tennesseans was $34,895. Among the 22 major occupational groups in Tennessee, the biggest five all paid below the statewide average:

His career in logistics and transport set up George Abernathy to know Chattanooga well. His first trip to the city was in 1997, and he returned many times over the years to work with US Xpress, Covenant Transport and Kenco, among others.

Dylan Pollack and Rebecca Brooks wanted to play outside and launch a business. For them, that added up to living in Chattanooga.

Flint and Jennifer Chaney never expected they would welcome their first child to the world in Chattanooga, but they have warmed up to the idea since moving here this summer.

The East Main Street area of Chattanooga is seeing arguably the most redevelopment activity in decades and a building at the center of the key artery is for sale.

Do you change yourself to try to fit in? Or do you try to change the culture to make it more inclusive for people like you?

John Weaver, the president of family-owned and operated Weaver Tree Farms in West Jefferson, N.C., is kicking off his 33rd holiday season selling trees in the Scenic City.

The appetite for fire runs hot in nearly every season at Southern Hearth and Patio, with blazing demand for fireplaces as temperatures drop in the fall, and a sizzling market for outdoor kitchens every spring and summer.

Roenesha Anderson, 30, grew up inside a vortex of family turbulence. At one point, both of her parents were incarcerated, she says, and she was eventually adopted by an aunt.

Dancer-turned-nutritionist Maite Bou has a thriving business teaching healthy-living concepts to Chattanooga-area clients — mostly mothers and/or busy career-women.

* Founded: Aug. 1, 2018, in the former East Ridge Flea Market building at 6725 Ringgold Road.

Dalya Qualls is a health care industry veteran who also has a keen interest in sports.

About one in four households have a smart speaker hanging out in the background, ready and waiting to do our bidding if we'll just say the word.

The Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce and a volunteer-led committee recently honored both Chattanooga Whiskey and FreightWaves as 2019 Spirit of Innovation Award recipients, the second tie in the award's nearly 20-year history.

Crisp air conjures sugar plum visions, and you're feeling festive.

Being a small business owner is difficult and rewarding. You are the CEO, the marketing department, the accountant and more. In the midst of your never ending to-do list, you need to hire employees.