TVA refuels Sequoyah, Chattanooga gas prices up and other business news
The newest reactor at the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant near Soddy-Daisy is once again generating 1,220 megawatts of electricity for the Tennessee Valley Authority af…
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Quantum technologies to be tested in Chattanooga
Biship Smith remembers as a small boy learning about astronomy and different universes from his grandfather and being intrigued with finding out more about oth…
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Chattanooga home sales slow slightly in first quarter but local market still relatively stable
Despite rising interest rates and growing fears of a recession over the past year, home sales and prices in the Chattanooga area have remained relatively stabl…
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Tesla opening showroom, service facility in Chattanooga
Tesla is preparing to open its fourth location in Tennessee with a new showroom and service facility off Interstate 75 in East Brainerd.
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Chattanooga accounting firm Market Street Partners expands into newly renovated office
For the fifth time in less than seven years, one of Chattanooga's fastest-growing accounting firms is preparing to move again into larger downtown offices.
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Three Chattanoogans among America’s billionaires
Three Chattanooga-area business leaders are among a dozen billionaires in Tennessee on Forbes magazine's new list of the wealthiest people on the planet.
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Racers rally in Chattanooga as test of possible world event next year
One of the world's most popular car racing events is testing out the trails and back roads in Southeast Tennessee this weekend to determine if it will return t…
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VP Harris visits Dalton, Georgia, as solar cell maker lands its biggest deal, adding 2,500 jobs
Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Dalton, Georgia, on Thursday to lift up the Carpet Capital as an example of how the green energy economy can help rebu…
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Industrial site on Chattanooga's Southside acquired for more development
A Chattanooga development company that is building a $100 million industrial park in Hixson has acquired another industrial property on Chattanooga's Southside…
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Popeyes opens in East Brainerd after closing outlets in Brainerd and Southside
Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits has opened a new location in East Brainerd as the first of three restaurants opening this year on a stretch of Gunbarrel Road near H…
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Former Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Mickey Barker dies at 81
Former Tennessee Supreme Court Chief Justice William M. "Mickey" Barker died Monday at the age of 81.
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Chattanooga’s Vincent Printing merges with BPGraphics to form Convergent Print Group
Only 15 months after buying one of the South’s oldest and biggest billboard and outdoor printing companies, Beau Wells is finalizing an even bigger deal to mer…
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Industry in motion: Van de Kamp heads dedicated trucking division at U.S. Xpress Enterprises
In an industry where nearly 85% of the drivers are men, Julie Van de Kamp has been named president of the dedicated trucking division at Chattanooga's biggest …
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KW managing broker in Chattanooga says serving clients remains key in all real estate markets
Steven Sharpe was looking for a more flexible career when he left his job in claims administration at Cigna Healthcare in 2007 to become a real estate agent as…
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Freight broker Cargo Logistics Network opens Chattanooga sales office
After helping Steam Logistics grow into Chattanooga's biggest freight broker, Barry Grove and Eric Sisson have decided to help build up another international s…
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Hamilton County grows more than 3 times the US rate last year
An influx of new residents moving into the Chattanooga area boosted the population of Hamilton County last year more than three times as fast as the national a…
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Stocks rally to cap a winning month, quarter for Wall Street; most Chattanooga stocks rise
How Chattanooga stocks fared
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TVA prepares to return ancestral remains of 4,771 Native Americans
The Tennessee Valley Authority is making its biggest efforts yet this spring to return ancestral remains of Native Americans found on TVA properties where the …
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US revises down last quarter’s economic growth to 2.6% rate
The U.S. economy maintained its resilience from October through December despite rising interest rates, growing at a 2.6% annual pace, the government said Thur…
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Republican lawmakers accuse Fed of being lax before bank failure
Republican lawmakers accused top bank regulators Wednesday of dawdling as Silicon Valley Bank hurtled toward the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history an…
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Tennessee and Alabama lag rest of US in home energy efficiency
Tennessee and Alabama are among the worst states for home energy efficiency, spending only a fraction of the U.S. average on home insulation, heat pumps and ot…
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Technology is key to building safer, better transportation, industry leader says during Chattanooga visit
Despite the addition of smarter safety features on new vehicles, more than 46,000 Americans died in traffic accidents in each of the past two years, or nearly …
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Workout Anytime opens bigger gym in Hixson as fitness clubs bounce back from pandemic
Four years after buying into the Chattanooga market, the biggest franchisee for Workout Anytime has opened a new club in Hixson that is nearly three times the …
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Who are the top selling real estate agents in Chattanooga?
Buoyed by two of the biggest residential sales ever in Chattanooga last year, Realtor Jay Robinson and his team were once again the top-selling real estate gro…
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Roberts and Stocking join Chambliss law firm and more Chattanooga-area career moves
Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C. welcomes two new attorneys, David Roberts and Eric Stocking, who will serve the firm's estate planning and business practice …
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Middle Tennessee's Wilson Bank expands into Chattanooga
The angst fueled by the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank earlier this month may be limiting some financial institutions, but the number of ban…
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Tennessee and Georgia unemployment rates steady and below US average
Unemployment remained near historic lows and below the national average in both Tennessee and Georgia last month as employers continued to add jobs despite hig…
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TVA joins international group in developing new small modular reactor design
America's biggest government utility is joining with utilities in Canada and Poland and one of the oldest nuclear plant manufacturers to develop a basic design…
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Chattanooga promotes quantum network training with new programs at UTC, Chattanooga State
Chattanooga's Gig City is seeking to take a quantum leap into the next generation of computer and communication technologies with a new education initiative to…
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No US Army Corps funding this year for Chattanooga's Chickamauga Lock
Chattanooga's biggest construction project is continuing on the Tennessee River even though no new funding is being provided this year for the half-built endea…
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Knight-Swift to buy Chattanooga-based U.S. Xpress for $808 million
One of America's largest motor carriers will soon take the wheel of Chattanooga's biggest trucking company under an $808 million deal announced Tuesday.
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Tennessee business leaders more optimistic about state's economic outlook than nation's, survey shows
Business leaders in Tennessee are far more optimistic about the economic outlook this year in their own state than for the country as a whole, according to a U…
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Some Polk County residents object to rally racing in Cherokee National Forest
The Chattanooga Tourism Co. is touting a World Rally Championship race next year as potentially the biggest sporting event ever in the region.
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Three more hotels planned at Chattanooga's Shallowford Road exit on I-75
One of the top hotel destinations along Interstate 75 is getting three more hotels to add to the two dozen already operating around the Shallowford Road exit i…
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Chattanooga power rates should dip in April from lower fuel costs for TVA
Inflation-weary consumers will get a bit of a reprieve on their monthly power bills next month as cheaper fuel cuts the price of electricity in Chattanooga for…
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Chattanooga's Moxy hotel sells for $14.5 million
In its first investment in the South, the New York-based DelMonte Hotel Group has purchased the Moxy hotel in downtown Chattanooga for nearly $14.5 million.
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Dunlap, Tennessee, parachute maker expanding, adding jobs
A Dunlap, Tennessee, manufacturer of high-performance parachutes is expanding its production plant and adding more jobs.
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Chattanooga is in line for World Rally Championship in 2024
For the first time in 36 years, a World Rally Championship could return to the United States at a rally event next year in Southeast Tennessee that would be th…
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Consultants to study need, potential for bigger Chattanooga convention center
Buoyed by record revenues last year, Chattanooga's $1.5 billion-a-year tourism industry is looking at expanding the city's biggest convention facility by build…
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National Seating & Mobility to lay off 108 workers in Chattanooga
National Seating & Mobility is outsourcing its billing and collections and will lay off 108 workers in Chattanooga over the next four months, according to comp…
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Chattanooga's January unemployment rate the lowest in 22 years
Unemployment in the Chattanooga area edged higher in January due to the normal seasonal drop in retail and other holiday-related hirings, but the new year bega…
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Study says TVA could improve economy and public health by phasing out coal plants sooner
America's biggest public utility would create more than 15,000 additional jobs while improving public health if it moved more quickly to carbon-free energy and…
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Public input sought on future of current Chattanooga Lookouts stadium site after team relocates to Southside
In the next couple of years, one of the largest properties in downtown Chattanooga is scheduled to open up for redevelopment after the Chattanooga Lookouts min…
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Chattanooga rolls out updated climate action plan
More than a half century after Chattanooga was labeled the dirtiest city in America for its industrial and vehicle emissions, Mayor Tim Kelly has rolled out a …
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Formulated Solutions to reopen the shuttered Beiersdorf plant in Cleveland, Tennessee
One of Bradley County's biggest manufacturing plants, which shut down last summer after 43 years of operation, is being reopened by another over-the-counter ph…
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Chattanooga gas prices rise again last week after declining in February
After declining by more than 30 cents a gallon during February, gasoline prices in Chattanooga reversed their downward trend and rose by an average of 7.3 cent…
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Federal and Tennessee leaders back plans for more nuclear power in state
Federal and state leaders are pushing plans to build a new type of nuclear reactor here that they claim could provide a clean source of power and an economic d…
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Chattanooga's Westside evolving with plans for $1 billion redevelopment
With help from the city, county and Uncle Sam, the Chattanooga Housing Authority is looking to redevelop its oldest and biggest housing project and surrounding…
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Chattanooga's Steam Logistics offers buyouts as the freight market slows
Chattanooga's biggest freight broker is offering $2,000 to anyone who wants to quit the company.
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Chattanooga hotels rebound from pandemic, spurring the addition of more lodging options
When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down meetings, conventions and most travel in 2020, Chattanooga hotels took an unprecedented hit, with revenues plunging by nea…