Some construction lumber costs are off as much as 40 percent from 2004 highs, while prices for certain grades of plywood are down even more from peak levels.
Due to an Federal Aviation Administration computer problem, Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport is advising travelers to check with the airlines before leaving for Lovell Field.
As Volkswagen starts assessing skills of potential production workers, officials Tuesday approved an array of equipment for VW's training center including robotic systems.
A manufacturers group says it will evaulate a proposed $2.6 million rate hike by Chattanooga Gas Co. before officials decide whether to lobby against it.
Key tests on the Passage's new lighting system and water features will take place after Thanksgiving, likely sliding the reopening of the attraction to December, officials said.
The historic Maclellan building downtown has been sold by businessman Henry Luken to a group which announced plans last year to remake the structure into a hotel.
Volkswagen's initial air quality application was 600 to 700 pages long, and local Air Pollution Control Bureau officials believe it set a speed record issuing a permit for an auto plant in the United States.
Moll Systems, a German company that will install auto conveyors for Volkswagen's new assembly plant, has leased space in the Ooltewah area where it will employ up to 50 people.
NASHVILLE — State officials Thursday selected six venture capital firms, including one with Chattanooga ties, that will split $120 million in tax credits intended to spark investment in new Tennessee companies.
CBL & Associates Properties Inc. officials said Wednesday they're seeing interest from equity funds, foreign investors and others seeking to joint venture wi
Volkswagen's paint shop will produce cars that may be red, blue and black. But workers installing the facility's first equipment Monday are thinking green.
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant chief said Friday that the planned supplier park near the VW plant is expected to have about eight to 10 suppliers at first and be ready next summer.
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- The economy's rebound likely will lag, but Volkswagen is creating growth opportunities for the region, economic development officials said Thursday.
Volkswagen's Training Academy, a building that's seen as key to a successful production startup, is slated for a mid-December finish, officials said Tuesday.
Work is slated to finish in mid-December on Volkswagen’s $40 million training center as 160 people man two shifts on the building, officials said today.
Joe Benton, of Chattanooga, said he'd been unemployed for six months and really wants one of the production jobs for which Volkswagen started taking applications Monday.
More than 5,000 people had filed online for Volkswagen production jobs by mid-afternoon today after the automaker started taking applications for the slots, an official said.
When Volkswagen opens up hiring Monday for its 1,200 production jobs at its Chattanooga plant, the effort will be watched closely both inside and outside the company.
Randy Ellis was flying on Allegiant Air from Chattanooga to Orlando on Friday to see his daughter and said a cheap ticket was his reason for picking the airline.
The last undeveloped part of the historic Lovemans building is undergoing a facelift as plans call to turn the structure’s second floor into office or residential condominiums.
Volkswagen officials are bracing for several tens of thousands of applications as the company starts taking online inquiries Oct. 26 for production jobs at its Chattanooga plant.
The Chattanooga area is expected to gain from not just the Volkswagen auto plant but spinoff businesses and jobs as well, IBM's chief economist said here Thursday.
A new $2 million Riverview Animal Hospital is going up in North Chattanooga as that area continues to show building activity even amid the sluggish economy.
Chattanooga nanofiber company eSpin has received a license from Y-12 National Security Complex to make special wipes used at Department of Energy nuclear energy facilities.
Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport trails Tennessee's other major airports in on-time flight arrivals, though it's just slightly below the national average, a study shows.
About 100 Volkswagen suppliers from across the world met in Chattanooga on Tuesday as their officials were briefed on doing business with the automaker.
The purchase of $7.6 million in state-of-the-art equipment that Volkswagen will use to train workers to build cars in its Chattanooga auto assembly plant was approved by a city panel today.