State Rep. Yusuf Hakeem, D-Chattanooga, is sponsoring legislation to require state officials to develop and implement a continuing education program for Tennessee law enforcement officers on diversity, race relations and cultural awareness.
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 thinking of U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty of Tennessee on that day.
The Tennessee Senate has approved legislation expanding the state's education voucher program into Hamilton County, which would allow low-income families to use public tax dollars to send their children to private schools willing to accept the annual $8,100 vouchers.
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 Historic Development program, state Department of Economic and Community Development officials announced Thursday.
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 participate in that party’s primary — rather than letting voters select the party ballot of their choice on election day.
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 their relatives under a bill now moving in the General Assembly.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti last week joined with 21 fellow Republican state attorneys general to support a federal lawsuit in Texas seeking to reverse the federal Food and Drug Administration's 2000 approval of the abortion drug mifepristone nationally.
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 $776,300 in his proposed fiscal year 2023-24 budget to provide for a park manager, three park rangers and five other staffers for the 7,093-acre area near Soddy-Daisy.
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 students is headed to the Senate floor after clearing the Education Committee on a 6-3 vote.
