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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

They've spent time away from their families, friends and favorite pastimes, combing over the latest scientific literature and burning the candle at both ends to keep their patients, colleagues and communities safe through a rapidly changing pandemic.

People who have recovered from COVID-19 carry a potentially powerful weapon against the disease in their veins, and Blood Assurance moved fast to tap that resource in the early days of the pandemic.

Betsy Chase says she has always been interested in working behind the scenes.

Brad Pope may not be a health care provider, but he's looking out for 16,000 employees at 16 hospitals in six states at a time when the pressures on health care professionals are extraordinary.

Integrity. Diligence. Compassion. Translated to human actions, these three words can mean: Do the right thing, work hard and love others.

Fresh out of Samford University in the early 1960s, Birmingham native Jim Pesnell went to work for International Harvester. His sales job entailed driving a big truck.

As the oldest of five siblings in a relatively poor family in Idaho, Rae Bond learned early about the challenges of health care and its costs when her father had a heart attack when Bond was 11 years old.

Dr. Rob Headrick, chief of thoracic surgery at CHI Memorial Chest and Lung Cancer Center, has made it his mission to prove that lung cancer doesn't have to be a death sentence — that even people who are most at risk, such as longtime tobacco users and those with a family history of cancer, can complete treatment and go on to live healthy lives.