Tennessee firefighters working at smaller departments could become eligible for workers' compensation for job-related post-traumatic stress disorder under a new law, named for a late Cleveland firefighter, that takes effect New Year's Day.
U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tennessee, questioned last week whether "good conservative" lawmakers in Congress have been compromised, even raising the possibility they were caught up in "honeypot" sex schemes and blackmailed.
NASHVILLE — Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti has filed what he said is a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against investment giant BlackRock, charging the firm is harming consumers by being socially conscious.
Most Tennesseans, regardless of party, said residents should be able to protest at the state Capitol if they go about it peacefully, according to a Vanderbilt University poll of 1,005 registered voters.
Heavily traveled Interstate 24 at Moccasin Bend in Chattanooga is one of four traffic sites under consideration by the state for privately built and operated toll lanes, Tennessee Department of Transportation officials said Monday.
In what has now become a holiday tradition, Gov. Bill Lee on Friday granted executive clemency to 23 Tennesseans, including six people from Southeast Tennessee, all of whom were convicted years ago for various crimes.
A new Vanderbilt University poll found that 42% of registered voters in Tennessee approve of the General Assembly.
NASHVILLE — Tennessee government-run prisons and the state's privately operated CoreCivic facilities may have run afoul of federal prisoner protection guidelines by improperly closing sexual assault and harassment investigations before having rape test results on hand, according to a state comptroller audit.
The Libertarian Party of Tennessee says in a lawsuit that state election laws stack the political deck against those wanting to run for partisan offices under the Libertarian banner.
Somehow the state of Tennessee has muddled through 227 years without an official Christmas song. State Rep. Jason Powell says that's long enough.
