Mary Fortune

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.

After 23 years with the Chattanooga-based nonprofit marriage and family ministry First Things First, CEO Julie Baumgardner will leave the organization for the WinShape Foundation, a nonprofit ministry established by Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy and his wife Jeanette Cathy.

A local roller skate entrepreneur and an advocate for public education landed places on the Forbes magazine 30 Under 30 list for 2021.

Plans to open a restaurant owned by celebrities from "The Walking Dead" in the historic Choo Choo building have revived after the pandemic put them on hold for much of 2020.

Lady Bug Exterminating is owned and operated by Ola Phipps, who opened the business in 1982.

Bridgett Massengill is president and CEO of the Thrive Regional Partnership, an independent nonprofit organization working for responsible and inspired growth for the next 40 years across the tristate Chattanooga region.

The National Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in September on total employment by industry, and on year-over-year change in employment. In Tennessee and Georgia, the hospitality and leisure industries saw the highest percentage of job losses.

Tom Norquist is serious about play. The senior vice president of Innovation and Business Development for Chattanooga-based PlayCore/GameTime, Norquist has spent decades developing his own understanding of the benefits of play, and advancing practices and knowledge across the industry.

Downtowns all over the country may be down, but no one should count them out, says Emily Mack, the new CEO of the nonprofit group dedicated to improving Chattanooga's city center.

As the holiday shopping season kicked off, OddStory has showcased local makers, creatives, and small business owners at a Holiday Market in their tap room on M.L. King Boulevard. Events in November featured local vendors including leatherware by Seeker's Summit, woodwork by Self Custom Works, Lolo Body Care bath products, Forget Me Not Candle Co., Burlap Apparel and Rootin' for Ya! Chattanooga.

The children will be back Monday morning, for the first time since a devastating tornado tore through the Grace Baptist Academy Children's Center on Shallowford Road late on Easter night.

Small Business Saturday is usually an elbow-to-elbow affair of big crowds and big sales at local retailers, but business owners are stretching out and down-shifting the celebrations a bit in 2020.

The four-day Thanksgiving weekend is typically the busiest holiday of the year at the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport, with a jam-packed Wednesday as people fly out and a "gangbuster" Sunday as they return, airport CEO Terry Hart said.

For some people, recovery from COVID-19 is a long and puzzling process, with symptoms including fatigue, brain fog and coughing that linger for weeks or even months beyond initial diagnosis.

Jim Perrine spent several years in the Merchant Marine during World War II, hauling critical supplies across treacherous oceans to troops fighting in Europe.

KaDeadra McNealy was working as a trade analyst in Washington, D.C., and finishing up a master's degree in public policy when it occurred to her that she could reshape the nail industry.

If there's one thing Chattanooga area voters agree on, it's that they're ready to move past a divisive and exhausting political season and feel united.

Chattanooga's entrepreneurial ecosystem has launched more than just groundbreaking businesses rooted in the Scenic City over the past decade.

Bellhop — originally named Campus Bellhop — was founded by Cam Doody and Stephen Vlahos in the summer of 2011 as a simple solution for college students looking for help moving into and out of their dorms.