Tennessee Business News

A 55-year-old former Gallatin oilman has been indicted in federal court here in connection with a multimillion-dollar mail fraud case linked to oil and gas wells in Kentucky, and a lavish Sweet 16 party for his daughter televised on MTV...

Fine Living into the Cooking Channel and moving the cable network from the hills of Tennessee to New York City's food-oriented Chelsea Market. Scripps spokeswoman Cindy McConkey says Fine Living employees were told Thursday...About 20 jobs will be lost at...

The FedEx Corporation said Tuesday that the government would not require it to pay employment taxes for contract drivers in its ground-delivery unit for 2004 through 2006, supporting the company’s claim that they should not be treated as employees. Similar...

With the nation's unemployment rate at its highest point in 26 years and projected to rise, the Obama administration is intensifying its search for policies that can stoke job creation without adding significantly to the nation's crippling budget deficit. One...

Tennessee is getting another $12.1 million in federal funds to fund its biggest program ever to help workers who lost their jobs due to foreign trade or competition, the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development announced today. Tennessee ranks...

Hudler has been president and publisher of The News-Press in Fort Myers for nine years. She will remain president of Gannett's U.S. Community Publishing South Newspaper Group. Hudler succeeds Ellen Leifeld in Nashville...Mark Mikolajczyk, president and publisher at Florida Today...

The parent company of First Tennessee Bank said today it lost $52.9 million, or 24 cents per share, in the third quarter, but it was less than analysts had expected. The average analyst forecast had been a 32-cent per share...

Environmental activists are trying to stop the Tennessee Valley Authority from starting a daily 1 million gallon discharge of water that contains mercury, selenium and other pollutants into the same river where coal ash was spilled at its Kingston Plant....