Chattanooga boosters for years have touted the area for its natural beauty, mild climate, walkable downtown, friendliness and outdoor activities. Now they can add another plus to that list — no income taxes.

Nearly a year after the COVID-19 pandemic sent them scrambling into survival mode, local business owners are still puzzling through how to make the most of financial stimulus programs designed to keep them going.

Super Bowl Sunday is the biggest single betting day of the year. But being the times we live in, COVID-19 remains the heavy favorite.

Even as bank consolidation reduces the number of U.S. banks, Chattanooga continues to attract the interest of regional banks eager to tap into the area's growing economy. Despite the pandemic and near record-low interest rate yields, deposits in Chattanooga's commercial banks last year swelled to a record $12.1 billion as of June 30, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Employees of the health care research and market strategy firm LIFT have always had the flexibility to do some of their work from home.

As an attorney for an insurance company, Bart Mathews owns plenty of suits. These days, though, he's only wearing the top half of them. With Crocs.

Sukriti Chadha was working in New York as a developer for Yahoo, never imagining life outside of a major city, when the pandemic landed and changed all her plans.

From back-to-back virtual meetings and working from home to cutting travel and juggling family needs, the COVID-19 pandemic has upended how people live and work, leaving many feeling overwhelmed, stressed or burned out.

Tiffany Pauldon-Banks has operated a successful wedding planning and event business for the past six years in both her native Chicago and in her transplanted home in Chattanooga.

The pandemic temporarily knocked the wheels out from under Adrienne Cooper's idea for an adults-only roller lounge in Chattanooga, but now her distinctive line of skates is selling fast enough to make her head spin.

People love stickers. And T-shirts. And caps. And when they also love a product or a place, they'll even become walking advertisements for businesses that use merchandise to brandish their logos.

Gordon's Cleaners has been around for 68 years, taking in piles of the wrinkled and dirty and giving back stacks of the clean and pressed.

Chattanooga's entrepreneurial ecosystem has launched more than just groundbreaking businesses rooted in the Scenic City over the past decade.

Entrepreneurship, the engine of American's free enterprise economy, has become a hot topic at college business schools around the Chattanooga area.

Each year during Chattanooga's Startup Week, businesses and their founders from a variety of industries and backgrounds earn the recognition of their peers and colleagues in several categories.

Since 2001, the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce has recognized local companies launching innovative products, practices or processes with its annual Spirit of Innovation award. The award's announcement during the city's annual Startup Week moved online this year, highlighting three groundbreaking businesses that have found creative ways to thrive during a challenging time. Here is this year's winner:

Since 2001, the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce has recognized local companies launching innovative products, practices or processes with its annual Spirit of Innovation award.

Since 2001, the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce has recognized local companies launching innovative products, practices or processes with its annual Spirit of Innovation award.

The coronavirus has thrown millions of Americans out of work and upended the usual ways those still on the job buy insurance for everything from their cars to their health care.

Insurance is mostly about guarding against unusual losses to life's everyday essentials - from your home or car to your health.

Five months after an Easter night tornado sent trees crashing through her roof and rain cascading into her kitchen, Lauren Cameron's home was still draped in blue tarps, wide open to the weather.

When it comes to the coronavirus and insurance coverage, officials at Chattanooga area brokerage firms say 2020 has rewritten the playbooks.

Every year, we invite our community to nominate health care professionals who have done extraordinary work in service to their field and their neighbors for the Champions of Health Care awards. Do people respond?