Rep. Hakeem effort to require diversity training for Tennessee law enforcement stalls
State Rep. Yusuf Hakeem, D-Chattanooga, is sponsoring legislation to require state officials to develop and implement a continuing education program for Tennes…
State Rep. Yusuf Hakeem, D-Chattanooga, is sponsoring legislation to require state officials to develop and implement a continuing education program for Tennes…
It was the University of Tennessee System's top building project request in the state budget as well as state higher education's No. 2 ask.
A sworn deposition released recently by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol provides new, behind-the-scene details about …
The Tennessee Senate has approved legislation expanding the state's education voucher program into Hamilton County, which would allow low-income families to us…
The Tivoli Theatre Foundation and a new hotel being planned for the former Chattanooga Bank Building are both receiving $300,000 grants from the Tennessee Hist…
Tennessee Republican lawmakers are mounting a new effort to limit local primary elections so that only those who declare a political party in advance can parti…
Tennessee's 43-year-old anti-nepotism law would get new clarity and its first set of legal teeth to enforce the ban on state officials hiring and overseeing th…
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti last week joined with 21 fellow Republican state attorneys general to support a federal lawsuit in Texas seeking t…
Gov. Bill Lee will be designating the North Chickamauga Creek Gorge State Natural Area as one of four new Tennessee state parks and is asking lawmakers for $77…
A bill sponsored by state Sen. Todd Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga, to include Hamilton County Schools in Tennessee’s private school voucher program for low-income …
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Monday introduced his proposed $55.6 billion fiscal year 2023-24 budget and priorities. Here is a breakdown of his spending prioriti…
Declaring Tennessee is at a “pivotal moment” in its 226-year history, Gov. Bill Lee on Monday challenged lawmakers during his fifth annual State of the State a…
With state fuel tax revenues already failing to keep up with Tennessee's current highway needs, let alone future demands and pressures, state senators this wee…
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is coming under criticism from some Democratic lawmakers for agreeing with a California-based gun rights organizat…
This much was already known: When U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann was appointed earlier this month by his Republican peers as chairman of the Energy and Water Deve…
File this one under, "If at first you don't succeed, try again."
Tennesseans aged 18 to 20 will be allowed to carry concealed firearms in public under the state's permitless gun carry law after the state settled a lawsuit fi…
Declaring Tennessee the greatest state in the country, Gov. Bill Lee said Saturday the state is leading the nation in areas ranging from economic development a…
As Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee prepares to be sworn in for his second four-year term of office Saturday, the Republican chief executive says the state is "leading …
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Rome, Georgia, Republican firebrand who was stripped of her House committee assignments two years ago by Democrats, was a…
State Sen. Bo Watson, R-Hixson, is helping lead a legislative effort to reduce the size of the Metro Nashville Council by half, taking the council from 40 memb…
State Sen. Todd Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga, was named Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Thursday after the retired financial consultant agreed to conditions s…
Former Tennessee Rep. Bobby Wood, a retired Republican businessman from Harrison who served 28 years in the state House before stepping down in 2004, died Thur…
Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton, R-Crossville, said Tuesday he is not a fan of legislation sponsored by Sen. Todd Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga, that would …
With the 113th Tennessee General Assembly kicking off its 2023 legislative session at noon Tuesday, various interests and groups were ready with plans for gran…
Efforts to relax some provisions in Tennessee's near-total ban on abortions, a transportation recommendation by Gov. Bill Lee that includes relieving urban tra…
Conservative hardliners in Tennessee and Georgia were central to the drama in the 118th Congress during its first week, during which Republican leader Kevin Mc…
U.S. Rep.-elect Andy Ogles, R-Tennessee, and Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Georgia — who resisted supporting Republican Kevin McCarthy's bid for House speaker in 11 pri…
NASHVILLE -- U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann said Thursday he thinks Republican leader Kevin McCarthy can still find enough votes from a faction of hard-right GOP …
One U.S. House Republican each from Tennessee and Georgia joined fellow GOP conservative hardliners Tuesday to help block Republican leader Kevin McCarthy's bi…
Tennessee's strict abortion ban is expected to be re-fought among divided majority Republicans during the General Assembly's upcoming 2023 session.
Tennesseans will see a handful of new laws go into effect Jan. 1, among them a pro-consumer law making it easier to cancel online subscription-based products a…
Gov. Bill Lee announced Thursday he has granted pardons to 16 people, including two women from Hamilton County and a Bradley County man.
Gov. Bill Lee and fellow prominent Republicans are demanding the Biden administration abandon what they say are plans to transport some migrant detainees from …
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Rome, and her estranged husband, Perry Greene, have agreed to finalize their divorce, according to new filings last week in…
Most Tennesseans say in a new survey that they support restricting middle and high school students to playing only on sports teams that match their sex at birt…
Citing violence and other problems in Chattanooga's Station Street entertainment district, state Sen. Todd Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga, says he has introduced a …
Tennessee lawmakers voted Wednesday to put the state's troubled Department of Children's Services on a short leash, approving a one-year extension for the agen…
Three out of four Tennesseans are telling pollsters they favor exceptions for victims of rape and incest in Tennessee's strict abortion law that banned the pro…
Tennessee higher education officials are seeking a half billion dollars in state funding for 11 building projects in next year's state budget.
Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Tom Greenholtz and fellow Chattanoogan Michael Richardson are among five attorneys seeking to fill an expected state …
Citing a need for $26 billion in highway spending by 2040, Gov. Bill Lee's administration plans to ask lawmakers to authorize public-private partnerships to bu…
After 33 years of service, Hamilton County's 5,812-square-foot Medical Examiner's Office building is no longer adequate to meet today's demands, officials say.
U.S. Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty of Tennessee were among 39 Republicans who voted this week against passage of a historic bill to provide federal p…
State Rep. Yusuf Hakeem, D-Chattanooga, said he plans to mount a legislative effort to eliminate provisions in Tennessee's abortion law that put physicians at …
Five years after Tennessee lawmakers approved then-Gov. Bill Haslam's recommended gas and diesel tax increases for highway transportation projects and maintena…
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga has the official go-ahead to proceed with planning a $40 million maintenance-and-renovation project for the state's …
The new head of Tennessee's troubled Department of Children's Services said Thursday that almost half of the first-year caseworkers hired in the past 12 months…
A year after Gov. Bill Lee's administration presented plans to replace the state-owned Moccasin Bend Mental Health Institute in Chattanooga with a new $265 mil…
A top Tennessee Senate Republican has introduced legislation to criminalize drag entertainers' performances in public or at private venues where minors are pre…