When it comes to understanding generational differences in the workplace, there can be some danger in generalizing, says Jenny Whitener, founder and CEO of Bridge Innovate, a Chattanooga-based business consultancy.

With four generations working side-by-side, and a world of difference between them, we sat down with several intergenerational teams to talk about the advantages and challenges of working across the ages. From TikTok and YOLO (it means "you only live once") to avocado toast and Encyclopedia Britannica, we covered a lot of ground. These interviews have been condensed for length and clarity.

When Bobby Winnie and John Owen bought Quality Fence Company in July, they got more than just a 44-year-old business with a loyal stable of clients and a rock-solid reputation. They also got Rondell Robinson.

For the second year, the professionals highlighted in our annual Champions of Health Care feature are working at the center of a public health crisis unlike any we've seen in our lifetimes.

For the second year, the professionals highlighted in our annual Champions of Health Care feature are working at the center of a public health crisis unlike any we've seen in our lifetimes.

Creating more inclusive practices across health care — from greater access for underserved communities to more minority representation among providers — is a deeply personal mission for Dr. Andrea Willis.

If the late boxing champion Muhammad Ali was right, and service to others is the rent we pay for our rooms here on Earth, then Holly Gadd has paid up for the long haul.

At age 82, Dr. Hathaway Harvey still wakes up early and heads to the hospital most mornings to assist with surgery. He retired five years ago as a partner in his former medical practice, but he still enjoys helping other ear, nose and throat surgeons, and sharing in the head and neck surgeries he has practiced in Chattanooga for more than a half century .

Dr. Michael Greer says a physiology course while he was a student at Sequatchie County High School piqued his interest in medicine, and he never had a plan B.

Deborah Deal told her family when was 6 years old that she'd be a nurse one day.

Before Lori Hammon discovered nursing school, she saw herself less as a student than a sort of audience member.

Brynn Byers was an active, healthy high school school athlete when she was thrust suddenly into the confusing world of chronic illness.

Over nearly 60 years, the Council for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services has evolved from its modest beginning in a nondescript brick storefront on East Fourth Street into an addiction treatment provider that its small group of founders would not recognize today.

Keith Helton's first words may well have been, "Say aaaaah."

In every conversation he has about efforts to combat COVID-19 through education and health outreach, LaDarius Price hears the voice of his late friend and mentor Chris Ramsey.

For Dr. Michele Pickett, medicine is a calling rooted in faith.

In the early days of the spring rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, the challenges were largely logistical: Getting the vaccines where they needed to go, and administering them to thousands of people eager to have the shots.

Vikki and Jake Ledbetter bought a brick, split-level home in a neighborhood off East Brainerd Road for $174,000 in 2016, two years after they married. They had baby daughter Allie in 2018, and hadn't considered moving any time soon.

Sharon Mills, the late daughter of the founder of the Olan Mills portrait studio, built a picture-perfect house atop Elder Mountain overlooking the Tennessee River Gorge just 20 minutes from downtown Chattanooga.

Hamilton County posted a record jump in assessed residential property values of just under 30% in 2021 over the last reappraisal four years ago, figures show.

Gabe Thomas has 53 lots to sell in the new housing development he's building in Hixson, and 73 people on a waiting list to buy them. But there's a hitch in that plan.

No state income tax. No state taxes on pensions, dividends from stocks, interest on bonds or on Social Security.

A demographic tidal wave of Baby Boomers is aging into the realm of retirement, but that doesn't mean they're all calling it quits. Older workers will be the fastest-growing segment of the workforce from 2014 to 2024, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates.