News Across Tennessee

The Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport will share in nearly $1 billion in funds from the federal bipartisan Infrastructure Law to improve airport terminals across the country. The Chattanooga airport will receive $5 million for the first phase of a terminal expansion project that will increase the...

The Farragut Museum has received a $500 historic preservation grant from the Knoxville Civil War Roundtable (KCWRT) to purchase and install interpretive signage on the planned Virtue Road Greenway site. The site is the former home of the Virtue Mill where the 17th Michigan Volunteer Regiment took a...

Toast, Inc., an all-in-one digital platform built for restaurants, will establish its new configuration facility in the Antioch section of Nashville. Founded and headquartered in Boston, Toast plans to create more than 100 new jobs over the next five years in the greater Nashville region. Toast’s...

The city of Dayton has recently completed paving upgrades to the Cherokee Walking Track. Thousands of residents and visitors annually enjoy the track each year with improvements for the track being a major goal for city leadership. Recent improvements to the track, in addition to paving, include...

The city of Chattanooga is one of five governments across the nation selected to participate in the inaugural Putting Assets to Work Incubator Program. The program is described as "a selective new initiative that will revitalize and recirculate underutilized property and other assets to drive...

The Morristown Chamber Downtown Program has earned a designation as an Accredited Main Street America Program. In order to earn the designation, programs must show an exceptional commitment to preservation-based economic development and community revitalization through the Main Street Approach. In...

The increase in corporate traffic coming through Jackson’s McKellar-Sipes Regional Airport means the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will resume passenger screening services there after a 13-year hiatus. A decrease in passenger count and budget constraints had led to the TSA moving...

The Mt. Juliet City Commission has taken the first step toward creating a city-funded ambulance service with the addition of $1.9 million for the creation of Mt. Juliet Medical Emergency Services in the city’s upcoming fiscal year budget. The new ambulance division would include an EMS chief, four...

The city of Maryville Water and Sewer Department has been awarded a 2022 Governor’s Environmental Stewardship Award for Water Quality. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) Commissioner David Salyers will formally present the awards at a ceremony scheduled for...

Rockford Spring Company officials announced the company will establish new manufacturing operations in Lewisburg, investing $10.3 million and creating 62 new jobs. The company will locate into an existing facility at 1100 Garrett Parkway. By establishing a presence in Tennessee, the Illinois-based...

Officials with the Nashville International Airport (BNA) have announced $1.4 billion worth of improvements to the facility by late 2028. The plans call for a free-standing satellite concourse near the main terminal to provide more gates to accommodate anticipated growth of air travel demand in...

A Chattanooga bus that offers mobile CT scanners to test for lung cancer in rural and underserved communities has become part of a federal initiative to reduce American cancer deaths by at least 50% in the next 25 years. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death in the country and...