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Chattanooga Airport and TAC Air officials skirmished Monday after airport officials said their general aviation center will lose about $450,000 in the budget year that ends June 30.

Two eateries new to the Chattanooga area are cooking up openings as restaurant sales nationally are higher so far this year over 2012.

A $40 million road project will mean the biggest changes in decades for motorists exiting Interstate 24 to Chattanooga's Southside and Lookout Mountain.

The original Greenlife Grocery building in North Chattanooga will soon see new life along with a long vacant service station across the street.

Old Navy's store in Hixson is saying "Ahoy, matey" to Northgate Mall.

State and local officials talked financial incentives with top Volkswagen brass this week in the effort to lure production of a possible new sport utility vehicle to Chattanooga.

The mayors of Chattanooga and Hamilton County said today that discussions with top Volkswagen officials this week over expanding assembly at the Chattanooga plant were productive.

A small raft, piled high with debris and scrap metal, bobs precariously on the bank of the Tennessee River, about half a mile downstream from the Delta Queen, partially hidden by the dense foliage growing close to the water.

A businesswoman with a background in renovating older buildings in Miami has bought the rundown former St. George Hotel near the Chattanooga Choo Choo with plans to save it and put in condominiums.

When Volkswagen employee Lon Gravett looks at the Chattanooga assembly plant, he sees not just cars but opportunity.

HomeServe's chief executive said Tuesday that when the provider of emergency home repair service plans decided to add more than 100 jobs, putting them in Chattanooga was "a no-brainer."

A new study on the Volkswagen plant’s impact on the Chattanooga area shows it has fueled about 12,400 direct and indirect jobs.

Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke and Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger are in Germany today seeking an expansion to Volkswagen's Chattanooga plant, an official said today.

HomeServe, a provider of emergency home repair service plans, is adding 100 jobs and boosting its head count in Chattanooga to 300 workers, officials said today.

Raymond Holmes owned several diesel-powered vehicles a couple of decades ago, but he likes to drive a Town Car these days.

Passat sales rose in May over a year ago even as Volkswagen saw a slight overall drop in the number of vehicles sold in the month, the company reported today.

A rock crusher the size of a tractor-trailer on Friday was smashing big pieces of concrete slab into little stones while also using an oversized magnet to cull metal debris into another pile.

A supplier of packaging systems for Volkswagen's Chattanooga plant is adding more jobs after landing work for another German automaker.

U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander on Tuesday called on Tennessee's congressional delegation to get behind legislation that he termed "a huge step" toward building a new Chickamauga Lock.

U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said today there is “no chance” the Tennessee Valley Authority will be sold as proposed by the Obama administration.

Volkswagen is one of the world’s largest automakers, but the German company has gotten behind bicycling in a big way.

Another dollar store is slated to open in downtown Chattanooga with its owner banking on potential plans to breathe new life into M.L. King Boulevard along with the growing UTC campus.

Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke today cited three priorities as the city’s new chief executive, calling for gains in public safety, youth development and economic and community development.

One of Hamilton County's biggest mixed-use developments is hitting a milestone as workers have raised the first three of 23 planned commercial buildings at the Ooltewah site.

U.S. Sen. Bob Corker on Thursday waded into the issue of a rundown river barge in downtown Chattanooga, urging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to keep in mind the "significant negative effects" it's having on the waterfront.

U.S. Sen. Bob Corker today urged the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to keep in mind the “significant negative effects” that a rundown river barge has on Chattanooga’s riverfront.

The head of the United Auto Workers is sounding an upbeat note on a future union presence at Chattanooga's Volkswagen plant, even as others question the prospects and the wisdom of such a move.

Work on the last piece of Chattanooga's version of the Yellow Brick Road is slated to start this summer.

The cleanup of a run-down river barge across from Ross's Landing should be finished by week's end, but the city's top tourism official called for the developer to move ahead with his plans for a restaurant.

Chattanooga officials today approved a couple of land easements that will help clear the way for a new $6.5 million road to Volkswagen’s plant from Highway 58.

James Jabaley lived at his one-room downtown Chattanooga efficiency for about a decade — until his rent suddenly spiked 23 percent to around $500 a month.

Kim Hoge fulfilled a dream and opened her Northshore Boutique last month, and business so far is good.

Sport utility vehicle and truck sales are rising in the U.S. as gas prices retreat, creating an opening for possibly two new Volkswagen SUVs which could be made in Chattanooga.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Oak Ridge was a secret city during World War II when it was developing components for the atom bomb.

A new $2 million townhouse development is in the works in downtown Chattanooga on one of the central city's highest points.

Convergys Corp.'s workforce in Chattanooga will soon hit a new high mark since the Great Recession with the hiring of nearly 500 employees.

Convergys Corp. is growing its Chattanooga call center with plans to hire nearly 500 more people, growing its workforce to about 1,300 in the city, officials said today.

Rhea County's second-largest manufacturer is getting even bigger as Goodman Manufacturing plans to add 200 jobs.

A new state-of-the-art carpet mill in Northwest Georgia soon could add more than 2,000 jobs to the state's manufacturing base.

Despite a struggling national retail sales picture, CBL & Associates Properties Inc. reported Monday that first quarter earnings climbed on higher occupancy and rents.

Chattanooga shopping center developer CBL & Associates Properties Inc. today posted higher first quarter earnings on better occupancy and leasing.

In the wake of sharp criticism by tourism and downtown leaders over his dilapidated river barge, the owner said Friday he plans to start cleanup work soon.

A planned statewide association aimed at better focusing on issues vital to manufacturing is in the works and led by Chattanooga officials.

Chattanooga's Enterprise Center will use a $200,000 federal brownfield grant to plan for cleaning up an area that includes a 17-acre industrial site near downtown.

Chattanooga area manufacturers, citing a need for more focus on issues vital to them such as education and workforce development, said today they plan to set up a statewide association.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says a rundown river barge moored across from Chattanooga's top tourist attraction isn't complying with its permit, which ultimately could lead to its removal.

A company that makes gold and platinum wedding bands is shutting its Chattanooga plant and laying off about 40 workers as couples turn to cheaper metals as expressions of their love.

Chattanooga Airport travelers worried Monday over delays nationally caused by the budget-related furlough of air traffic controllers and security checkpoint workers.

Jim Bambrey runs one of Tennessee's best-known attractions in the Chattanooga Choo Choo, but from his office each day he sees a trio of rundown and vacant buildings across Market Street.

Jason Hamilton, a contract worker at Volkswagen's Chattanooga plant for the past 20 months, said Thursday he had quit a higher-paying job so he could assemble cars at the factory.

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