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.

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.

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.

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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.

Kirk and Cindi Kruse first came to the Chattanooga area more than a decade ago when their son decided to enroll at Lee University in Cleveland.

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A logjam of postponed water-related events from 2020 is starting to clear, and the back half of 2021 is bringing a return to the river that will have big downstream effects, says Barry White, CEO of the Chattanooga Tourism Company.

A return to the river launched downtown Chattanooga's renaissance more than 30 years ago. Today, Chattanoogans are going back to the Tennessee River again as they take another run at making a splash on the waterfront.

Chattanooga real estate agent Linda Brock spent a late-April day showing waterfront homes to clients who had journeyed from Omaha, Nebraska.

In a typical year, the Tennessee Valley averages 52 inches of rain, or nearly 72% more than the U.S. average.

Having had stone's-throw access to the Gulf of Mexico for nearly 50 years, Bryan Marshall knows spectacular views.

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In surveys of companies and employees for the Best Places to Work list, the qualities that make a place a great employer don't change much, despite the pandemic and a year that reinvented work, says Peter Burke, the founder of the Best Companies Group.

For Steam Logistics in Chattanooga, the past year brought big growth along with the huge challenges the pandemic delivered.

A lot had to change in a hurry in the early days of the pandemic, but Jon Paul Davis, a partner at HHM CPAs, says change is nothing new for the 40-year-old Chattanooga accounting and financial firm.

The Reliance Partners team responded quickly to rapid workplace changes in the wake of the coronavirus, moving the entire team to telework within 72 hours, according to the company.

The hospitality industry took some of the hardest hits during the pandemic, with hotels everywhere emptying out as travel shut down.

Despite the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, Unum Group officials say the culture within the Chattanooga-based insurer is more connected than ever before.

Since the Chattanooga law firm Warren & Griffin is an almost paperless office, the technology was in place to work from anywhere when the coronavirus pandemic struck, company officials say.

Tennessee Valley Federal Credit Union was established in 1936 when 57 TVA employees in Chattanooga pooled $500 to create the member-owned credit union.

Banking may be oriented toward money, but the leaders of Chattanooga's fastest-growing bank say it all starts with people.