Chattanooga air travel is growing but has not returned to prepandemic peak
The number of passengers boarding flights in Chattanooga rose again this year but is likely to end 2022 still down by about 22% from the highs reached in 2019,…
Stories by Dave Flessner
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Chattanooga gas prices drop before Christmas but winter heating costs still up
'Tis the season for travel, and the estimated 112.7 million Americans traveling away from home during the holidays are getting an early Christmas gift this wee…
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Thrive travels to Northwest Arkansas to study regional development model
Over the past three decades, the population of Northwest Arkansas has more than doubled and the census bureau projects the region will likely double its popula…
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Meta turns to the sun to power data centers in Tennessee and Georgia
Meta Platforms Inc., formerly Facebook, is turning to the sun to power its data centers in the South.
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UT economists predict Tennessee will avoid a recession in 2023
Tennessee's economic growth will slow next year, but state economists are not forecasting a recession in the Volunteer State in 2023.
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Hamilton County Mayor Wamp wants to add career high school in downtown Chattanooga
To help address what he called Hamilton County's biggest challenge, county Mayor Weston Wamp said Thursday he will push next year to build a vocational or tech…
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Chattanooga's EPB ranks tops in customer satisfaction among Southern utilities
EPB remains the highest-rated mid-sized utility in the South for customer service and reliability, according to a new report by J.D. Power, the leading consume…
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More apartments and townhomes planned in East Ridge
A low-lying, wooded site near Parkridge East Hospital is targeted for a 95-unit apartment complex as more infill development is planned in East Ridge.
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Chattanooga is projected to be among top markets for growth in home sales and prices in 2023
Despite a year-end drop in home sales, Chattanooga is projected to be one of the nation's top 10 markets next year for gains in home sales and prices as home b…
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Hamilton County lawmakers caution against using state budget surplus for ongoing programs or tax cuts
Buoyed by billions of dollars in new investments and extra stimulus funding from Uncle Sam, Tennessee is sitting on budget surpluses of more than $1 billion an…
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Chattanooga fuel prices drop to the lowest since August 2021
Gasoline prices fell in the past week to their lowest level in 16 months, saving the typical car owner more than $20 for a tankful of gasoline compared to the …
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Syrup and Eggs in Chattanooga’s Dwell Hotel to close at year’s end
A popular breakfast eatery in the downtown boutique hotel The Dwell will close at the end of the month.
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Chattanooga cuts energy use by 36%; city praised as Better Building leader
In January 2016, then-Mayor Andy Berke signed Chattanooga up for a national Better Buildings challenge and pledged to cut the city's energy use by at least 20%…
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Chick-fil-A opens new restaurant in Dalton, Georgia
A new Chick-fil-A restaurant will open Thursday in Dalton, Georgia, after another one of the fast-food chain's outlets at Walnut Square in Dalton temporarily c…
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Memphis rejects long-term power contract with TVA
The largest customer of the Tennessee Valley Authority has decided against entering into a long-term agreement to buy power from TVA as most other local power …
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Steak ‘n Shake closes Hixson restaurant
The Steak 'n Shake in Hixson has shut down after operating for more than a quarter century at 5118 Hixson Pike.
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New BlueSky Institute seeks students for second year of pioneering IT training program
Among all colleges and universities in Tennessee, only 45% of students who enter college ultimately get either an associate's degree within four years or a bac…
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Power cut by shooting in Moore County, North Carolina, could be restored sooner than expected
Duke Energy said it expects to be able to restore power by Wednesday night to a county where electric substations were attacked by gunfire.
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Chattanooga gas prices drop to lowest price since January
For the first time in nearly two years, gasoline prices have fallen below their year-ago levels.
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Tennessee listed among the trashiest states
The average American produces 1,704 pounds of garbage per year, roughly three times the global average, according to the research firm Verisk Maplecroft.
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TVA study recommends shutting down Cumberland coal plant, adding natural gas generation
The Tennessee Valley Authority is preparing to shut down its biggest coal power plant within the next six years as America's biggest public power company phase…
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Cigna property in East Brainerd sells for $24.7 million to house new school and residential development
One of the biggest undeveloped sites in East Brainerd should be developed into apartments, new homes and another Hamilton County public school following the $2…
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Watergate journalist tells Southern Adventist audience Trump misdeeds worse than Nixon’s
One of the journalists who helped uncover the campaign abuses that led to the resignation of then-President Richard Nixon nearly a half-century ago said Thursd…
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What are the top-paying jobs in Chattanooga?
The median pay for all jobs in the six-county Chattanooga metropolitan area rose last year by 3.9% to $49,080, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics…
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EPB announces quantum network to attract researchers, entrepreneurs to Chattanooga
Chattanooga's government and academic leaders appealed to researchers, entrepreneurs and academics in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to come to Chattanooga to …
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Senate panel narrowly votes in favor of Al Gore’s former chief of staff for TVA board
Despite opposition from most Republican members, a Senate panel voted Tuesday to endorse President Joe Biden's nomination of the former chief of staff to Vice …
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East Brainerd apartment complex sells for $16.4 million as outside investors continue to buy into Chattanooga
For the fourth time in the past couple of years, commercial real estate buyers have acquired a major East Brainerd apartment complex as outside investors conti…
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Builtwell Bank to add Ooltewah branch
Chattanooga's biggest locally based bank will add another branch in Ooltewah next year as it continues to expand following its recent merger with one of the bi…
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Chattanooga-area unemployment rate rises in October
Unemployment rose across the Chattanooga area last month even as many employers continued to hire more workers to fill job vacancies.
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Tennessee Valley records one of its best years for new economic investment
Higher inflation and interest rates are likely to curb America's economic growth next year, but business investment in the Tennessee Valley remains robust, at …
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Black Friday sales kick off traditional holiday season in Chattanooga area
Like millions of other Americans, Chattanoogan Ginger Pierce and her mother, Brenda Rayburn, will get up early Friday and head to the mall to begin their shopp…
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Environmental groups urge Congress to confirm TVA board nominations
Almost 18 months after being nominated, none of President Joe Biden's six nominees to the Tennessee Valley Authority board have been confirmed, including the c…
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Korean battery manufacturer plans new plant in largest foreign investment in Tennessee
In the biggest foreign investment ever in Tennessee, a South Korean battery manufacturer plans to charge up the state's economy with a $3.2 billion cathode pro…
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Chattanooga holiday travel rebounds to pre-pandemic levels
Skyler Oakley was expecting holiday travel mayhem at the Chattanooga Airport on Monday when he arrived for his flight to Florida.
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Nashville investment group buys Chattanooga medical office for $7.4 million
In its second office purchase in Chattanooga in as many years, a Nashville-based real estate investment firm has purchased a medical office building in the red…
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Winter heating costs up 10% this year by TVA, but electric prices dropping next month
With overnight temperatures falling below freezing this weekend, amid the coldest weather so far this season, Chattanooga homeowners are bracing for what is ex…
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Tennessee, Georgia unemployment rates rise in October
Unemployment across Tennessee and Georgia remained near historic lows again last month, but the red-hot job market appears to be leveling off with jobless rate…
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Chattanooga small-business loan program grows, seeks applicants for Idea Leap grants
After awarding $300,000 in grants for small businesses in Chattanooga over the past five years, Chattanooga's biggest credit union is expanding its Idea Leap c…
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Home furnishings retail shop opens on Chattanooga's Southside
As a volleyball player at Red Bank High School, Lindsey Frost sported No. 22 on her jersey, and her two younger sisters, who were later on high school teams, a…
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First Solar to build $1.1 billion solar panel plant in North Alabama, adding 700 jobs
The biggest U.S.-based maker of solar panels plans to build a $1.1 billion manufacturing facility in the Tennessee Valley.
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TVA’s CEO remains the highest-paid federal employee
America's highest-paid federal employee got a raise in both his salary and performance pay during the past year but is still paid significantly below most of h…
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TVA employees to get $161 million in ‘winning performance’ pay next week
The Tennessee Valley Authority will distribute $161 million in "winning performance" payments to its employees in recognition of meeting or exceeding the utili…
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Republicans prepare to pick next US House speaker as party is projected to retain slim majority
Republican hopes for a "red wave" in last week's midterm congressional elections fell short, but GOP lawmakers elected for the next Congress that convenes in J…
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Most Chattanooga voters think U.S. is headed in the wrong direction
Most Hamilton County voters think the United States as a whole is headed in the wrong direction, with half of all voters surveyed by the Times Free Press sayin…
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Staying on the fast track for 45 years, Chattanooga's Fast Break Athletics keeps on running
Alan Outlaw began his career with Home Depot and worked for nearly a decade with the giant hardware retailer managing stores in Chattanooga.
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TVA joins other utilities to pursue Southeast Hydrogen Hub
While the Tennessee Valley Authority is pursuing new types of power generation in its own territory from the next generation of nuclear, solar, battery and hyd…
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TVA touts ‘outstanding’ year in fiscal 2022, but fuel costs still push up winter heating bills
Despite the challenges of the pandemic and a jump in gas and coal prices, the Tennessee Valley Authority managed to cut its debt to a 25-year low, maintain its…
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TVA plans solar facility atop coal ash residues in Kentucky
The Tennessee Valley Authority destroyed the cooling towers at one Kentucky coal plant Thursday and began making plans to install a solar farm at its other Ken…
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Recession looms but Tennessee’s downturn should be relatively short and less severe, economist says
The U.S. economy appears headed into a recession, but the economic downturn is likely to be shorter than most recessions and be less severe in Tennessee, Unive…
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Tennessee voters overwhelming support right-to-work amendment
By a better than 2-to-1 margin, Tennessee voters Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment to enshrine the state's right-to-work law in the state constitutio…