Unemployment in metropolitan Chattanooga declined last month to the lowest level since November 2008, although the drop in the April jobless rate was largely due to a decline in the number of persons in the labor force.
Memorial Hospital plans to take part of its cancer treatment to the suburbs.
Buoyed by a 9.9 percent gain in home sales during the first quarter, Chattanooga home prices appear to have bottomed out from their recession lows.
Chattanooga, Oklahoma City and Houston were the turnaround success stories touted last week to leaders of Corpus Christi, Texas, which is trying to revitalize its bayfront.
Unemployment fell last month in Tennessee and Georgia to the lowest level in more than three years, although the decline in Tennessee was as much from fewer people looking for work in April as it was to an improving job market.
Chattanooga's biggest private equity fund announced Wednesday it has raised $222 million for its latest venture, twice as much as its previous fund launched six years ago and $22 million more than its initial goal.
A New York private equity group is adding to its growing automotive business by buying the U.S. subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp AG, including the 250-employee foundry in Etowah, Tenn.
ThyssenKrupp AG, an Essen, Germany-based materials and technology group that reopened its automotive foundry in Etowah, Tenn., earlier this year, has sold its U.S. subsidiary to a New York-based private equity group.
The mild winter helped cut power bills this year for most Chattanoogans, but the Tennessee Valley Authority will take back some of those savings next month with another increase it its monthly fuel cost adjustment.
Chattanooga Realtors last week urged Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Rick Smith to better define current and future school zones to help prospective home buyers make purchasing decisions.
As a construction supervisor for 17 years, Randy Cady traveled the country hiring workers to build restaurants and stores before the construction slump ended his job a year and a half ago.
Coming out of the worst recession in a half century, the Sunbelt has lost some of its manufacturing shine to the Midwest's Rustbelt, according to a new study of manufacturing trends among metropolitan cities.
Emily Pietrantone thought when she earned her nursing degree, she would have her choice of local jobs.
Herman Cain may not have been successful with his presidential campaign last year, but his 9-9-9 slogan continues, at least among some East Tennessee developers of resort property.
The Tennessee Valley Authority lost another $94 million during the second quarter of the fiscal year as the mild winter cut TVA revenues by nearly 12.5 percent below the year-ago period.
America's corporate leaders like the South with seven of their eight favorite states to do business located below the Mason-Dixon line.
Despite cost overruns and delays in its nuclear power program, TVA finished a natural gas power plant this week a month ahead of schedule and $30 million under budget.
The Tennessee Valley Authority began commercial operation of its newest natural gas-fired power plant on Monday, a month ahead of its original schedule.
Chattanooga may have begun on the river, but its biggest draw for tourists during most of the 20th century was its mountaintop, railroad and Civil War attractions.
The head of Benjamin F. Edwards & Co., Tad Edwards, cuts a dashing figure. Edwards is the sixth in a line of stockbrokers tracing their heritage back to President Abraham Lincoln’s Treasury Departmt, and has recently separated from Wachovia Securities to restart the firm founded in 1887 by the first Benjamin Edwards in St. Louis.
Work on the stalled replacement lock at the Chickamauga Dam in Chattanooga could be revived next year if Congress adopts a Senate plan to change the way the Army Corps of Engineers funds its inland waterway projects.
With a few strokes on the computer at the Tennessee Career Center on Thursday, Antonio Davis quickly realized what a difference a couple of years makes in Chattanooga’s job market.
The number of Chattanoogans going broke or defaulting on their mortgages fell below the year-ago level this winter as the job market, home prices and economic confidence all showed signs of improvement in early 2012.
The former head of Tennessee’s TennCare program has been appointed chief operating officer of BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, effective May 1.
Tennessee’s biggest health insurer expects to refund some of the increased premiums it charged nearly 90,000 individual plan members last year because of new requirements of the health care reform law.
Kalenborn Technologies in Soddy-Daisy is aiming for a big year as it swings into full production. "We'll be employing more," company President Phil Mitchell said about the modest-sized steel fabrication venture that's investing about $1.6 million in its factory.
Unemployment fell last month to the lowest level in more than three years across Tennessee and Georgia, although the 0.9 percent annual growth in jobs in both states still was well below the usual pace of previous economic recoveries.
Unemployment in Georgia fell last month to the lowest level in more than three years, although the jobless rate during March in the Peach State remained well above the national average.
Margaret Levine was head of global security for Capital One in 2001 when terrorists struck New York City where the company's CEO was speaking and where one employee went missing for more than eight hours.
With its box sales growing in new directions, Jamel Containers has itself boxed up its machinery and moved to a bigger facility in Chattanooga.
Pilot Flying J is America's largest operator of travel centers and plazas with more than 550 gas stations and truck stops in 47 states.
While natural gas is getting cheaper, the price of electricity in the Tennessee Valley is going up. The Tennessee Valley Authority announced Friday it will raise its wholesale rates by 2.1 percent in May to cover the anticipated higher expenses of buying more power from other utilities as temperatures warm this spring.
Volkswagen Group's first-quarter deliveries exceeded 2 million vehicles for the first time, according to the German automaker. The company delivered 2.16 million vehicles in the period, up 9.6 percent from a year ago.
Personal income in Tennessee grew faster than any state in the Southeast last year, providing the typical Tennessean the biggest yearly gain in pay and investment earnings in more than a decade.
The Tennessee Valley Authority will raise its wholesale rates another 2.1 percent in May to cover the anticipated higher expenses of buying more power from other utilities as temperatures warm this spring.
The nation’s third largest floor covering manufacturer is shaking up its management team after refinancing its debt last October.
Enterprise Bicycles is an authorized Jamis Bicycles and Sunday Bicycles dealer. Binkley said the bike shop sells and services bicycles and accessories.
Don Wright has had a love affair with printing since he ran a die cut press while still in high school.
The delay in finishing the Watts Bar Unit 2 reactor could force electricity rates higher in the Tennessee Valley, according to a new financial assessment of TVA.
Volkswagen is recalling 153 of the first Passats made at its Chattanoga plant because of a problem with the diesel fuel filter element that may lead to a risk of fire.
The city of Chattanooga granted 216 building permits in March for projects collectively valued at nearly $18 million. The biggest projects started last month included: 1 Office build-out of the Liberty Tower at 605 Chestnut St., by Helton Construction Co
After a reprieve in 2011 from the previous five years of steadily rising property foreclosures, the number of Hamilton County properties lost to bad debts appears to be on the increase again.
The InterContinental Hotels Group, the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms, opened the 137-room Holiday Inn-Hamilton Place last week at 2220 Center St., just off Shallowford Road near Interstate 75. It is the only full-service hotel outside of downtown Chattanooga.
Metropolitan Chattanooga grew faster than most of Tennessee last year, according to government population estimates released Thursday. The U.S. Bureau of the Census estimates the six-county Chattanooga area added 4,150 people during 2011, growing at a pace nearly 50 percent faster than the nation as a whole.
The cost of completing a second reactor at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant will likely cost TVA as much as $2 billion more than originally forecast and is projected to take two years longer than what TVA previously thought.
A Volkswagen staffing agency is seeking to immediately fill hundreds of more jobs at VW's assembly plant in Chattanooga by this summer.
Regions Financial Corp.,, announced today that it has repaid its $3.5 billion of federal loans under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).
The new owners of The Krystal Co., have hired the chief franchising officer for the Chattanooga-based CraftWorks Restaurants & Breweries Inc., to head the 360-unit hamburger chain.
The staffing contractor for Volkswagen of America is seeking to immediately fill full-time contractor jobs at VW’s assembly plant in Chattanooga.
Volkswagen said today it sold more of its Chattanooga-made Passat cars last month than what the company sold of its European-made Passats in all of 2010.
