Mary Fortune

Local logistics companies are hiring at fever pitch.

From the time she was a college student more than 30 years ago, Cheryl Saucier knew she wanted to spend her career supporting people with vision impairments in living active and fulfilling lives.

As shopping malls went up in sprawling, small-town suburbs, and downtown business districts grew quiet, the buildings sat empty for decades. The soaring ceilings and vast windows, the wide beams of timber, the heavy red brick walls gathered dust.

After more than 25 years in banking, Sue Culpepper jumped to a career in higher education where she helped guide students at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga through college and into the business world.

Her startup began with a house fire, took her to the high-profile television pitch show Shark Tank, and turned her from an aspiring physician to an inventor and entrepreneur.

The idea for the Chattanooga Football Club was born in 2008, when Thomas Clark, a former soccer player with the U.S. Air Force Academy and a Chattanooga transplant, tried out with an amateur soccer team in Birmingham, Alabama.

Every year, Tennessee penitentiaries release nearly 300 people a week who have served their sentences.

Bella Hampton knew she had a knack for all things mechanical, but she never imagined she’d get to turn her tendency to take things apart into a career.

A transparency activist shared information online Saturday indicating a massive trove of data stolen from the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce is up for sale.

Gas prices are down, travel projections are up, but the fast-moving omicron variant has thrown a last-minute wrench into holiday getaway plans for some people.

Gas prices are down, travel projections are up, but the fast-moving omicron variant has thrown a last-minute wrench into holiday getaway plans for some people.

When it comes to holiday shopping this year, the prices may be higher, the pickings may be slimmer and you might be running late if you haven’t already started, economic and retail experts say.

Standing in the sun-splashed warehouse space that will become Brickyard, Cam Doody can’t help but grin as he imagines the collective misery that will happen here.

Students in the newly launched BlueSky Tennessee Institute will have demanding, accelerated schedules that will earn them four-year technology degrees in 27 months and a shot at careers with BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee.

On April 20, 2019, Chris Sumrell and Tyler Head, local Chattanooga farmers with over 20 years experience in their field, opened the first FarmToMed store on Hixson Pike.

With four generations working side-by-side, and a world of difference between them, we sat down with several intergenerational teams to talk about the advantages and challenges of working across the ages. From TikTok and YOLO (it means “you only live once”) to avocado toast and Encyclopedia Britannica, we covered a lot of ground. These interviews have been condensed for length and clarity.

Chattanewbies recently gathered at Hotel Indigo to meet and mingle with others who are new to the Chattanooga area. The group meets monthly, and is sponsored by the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce.

More businesses that sell plants for indoor spaces are taking root in Chattanooga as people spruce up their surroundings during the pandemic.

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Andrew Hetzler is co-founder and chief operating officer of American Exchange, a Chattanooga-based company that helps individuals find health care coverage, from picking plans on the exchange created through the Affordable Care Act to filling in gaps related to Medicare coverage.