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$500,000 VCEDA grant approved for space-based broadband initiative
An up-to-$500,000 grant from the Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority (VCEDA) Education and Telehealth Access Fund was closed Thursday with…

By Scott Robertson Legal recommendations have been presented to Mayors Richard Venable of Sullivan County and Joe Grandy regarding potential…

Steve Smith K-VA-T Food Stores President and CEO Steve Smith received the Employer of the Year award during the Oct.…

Pictured above, David Stetson Activist investor group MG Capital, which owns 5.8 percent of Contura Energy Inc., is demanding the…

Pictured above, Mitch Miller (left) and Clay Walker The economic development organization threw out a collaborative document a year in…

Tri-Cities Airport (TRI) Executive Director Gene Cossey took the occasion of a Tuesday morning Legislator’s Breakfast to make it known…

The First Tennessee Development District (FTDD) has been awarded nearly $1.3 million from the U.S. Department of Labor through its…

U.S. Congressman Morgan Griffith (VA-9) was on hand this week to cut the ribbon for a new Department of Housing…

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and the state’s Financial Stimulus Accountability Group (FSAG) today announced an initial $50 million in federal…

A regional business leader who helped grow the aerospace sector in the Tri-Cities before his untimely passing has been posthumously…

The phenomenon that is #2020 continues unabated. Massive unemployment. Trillions of dollars of new debt. A pandemic. Racial strife. Murder…

Above: Ernie Rumsby, right, during a 2018 presidential visit to Johnson City. The man who has, for most of the…

by Scott Robertson The COVID-19 pandemic has played havoc with the revenue stream at Ballad Health, but administrators are using…

by Scott Robertson Clay Walker, CEO of NETWORKS Sullivan Partnership and Lynn Tully, Northeast Tennessee director for the Tennessee Department…

More worrying: Labor force participation on decline by Don Fenley WARN Act-mandated layoff notices are piling up in northeast Tennessee…

Above: Tennessee Commissioner of Economic and Community Development Bob Rolfe addresses a crowd of around 200 in Erwin prior to…