Mary Fortune

Scientists from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga will lead a team to create and test smarter intersections, where drivers will spend less time idling at red lights, and cars will know what speed to drive to clear every green light.

The new team charged with keeping Chattanooga's central city clean, safe and friendly has spent the last six weeks getting to know the people and places they serve, as well as scrubbing, mulching or sweeping nearly every surface they encounter.

Telehealth, which has been nibbling at the edges of the conventional in-person doctor visit for years, is having a heyday as the coronavirus keeps us at a safe distance.

Tennessee government has successfully "clawed back" $18.4 million in taxpayer-funded economic incentive grants given to 17 companies that officials say failed to fulfill job-creation and investment promises under the state's FastTrack Economic Development Grant program.

A recent study suggests dining out could be linked to a higher risk of contracting COVID-19, but Chattanooga restaurant owners and industry representatives say the research is flawed and unfairly targets struggling businesses.

One year after a massive water outage left 35,000 Chattanooga businesses and households dry for several days, officials with Tennessee American Water say they won't release information about the cause of the outage because of ongoing litigation.

Over the last six months, the local health care community has learned big lessons in a big hurry to protect public health during the coronavirus pandemic - but some challenges are just starting, said Rae Bond, the CEO of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Medical Society.

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?

Summer's last gasp this Labor Day weekend comes during a year of dismal tourism and hospitality activity, with campers and road-trippers driving travel trends.

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.

Corinne Hill became executive director of the Chattanooga Public Library in March 2012, coming here from Dallas, where she was interim director of libraries for the Dallas Public Library. Over the past 18 years, Hill has managed public services, technical services and library technology.

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.

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Transforming a high school research lab into a COVID-19 testing facility capable of processing hundreds of tests a day with 24-hour turnaround times was a huge undertaking.

The new coronavirus moved fast, unleashing a health care crisis that evolved into an economic and social emergency, hitting the most vulnerable communities hardest.

Health care professionals have been the front lines of the COVID-19 fight from the very beginning. This gallery of photos submitted by local health care teams is just a sample of the wide-ranging work happening to take care of people across our community.

The new openers of the Ben & Jerry's scoop shop in downtown Chattanooga are serving up opportunity and mentorship for Black entrepreneurs along with ice cream.

Hamilton County banked its fifth consecutive billion-dollar tourism year in 2019, and that would normally be unambiguously good news - but this year hits a little different.

A local media conversion company born in a rented garage in 2006 recently more than doubled its production space to nearly 110,000 square feet and expanded its campus on Holtzclaw Avenue to more than 5 acres.

Chattanooga is up against seven other cities in the Top Adventure Town contest by Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine in its 10th annual Top Adventure Towns Contest.