The National Park Service's American Battlefield Protection Program has awarded the city of Chattanooga a $353,522 grant to support the purchase of 7.6 acres of land within the "core boundaries" of Chattanooga Battlefield fighting on and alongside Lookout Mountain during the Civil War.
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation on Thursday filed suit in U.S. District Court in Nashville on behalf of an 8-year-old Williamson County transgender girl and her family to challenge a Tennessee 2021 law banning transgender public school students from accessing multioccupant restrooms and other facilities consistent with their gender identity.
A candidate running in Tennessee's 5th Congressional District GOP primary was escorted out of the state Republican Party's annual fundraiser over the weekend after an outburst directed at state House Speaker Cameron Sexton and Lt. Gov. Randy McNally, the state Senate speaker, as both leaders came on stage.
Hamilton County Election Commission figures show 19,629 voters cast ballots during early voting, representing a 9% drop from 2018, in advance of the county's balloting on Thursday for mayor, district attorney and other posts, an election which will also serve as a primary for state and federal offices such as governor and state representative.
They once served together on the Bradley County Commission, but state Rep. Mark Hall, of Cleveland, and J. Adam Lowe, of McMinn County, are now squaring off in what has become an increasingly bitter Republican primary nomination fight for Tennessee's recently redrawn state Senate District 1.
Congresswoman says Democrats seek to inject 'Marxist policies'
U.S. House Democrats' bills to enshrine in federal law protections for same-sex and interracial marriages as well as contraception got no traction from Republican representatives from Tennessee and Georgia.
Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery announced Tuesday the state's new law banning most abortions is set to take effect Aug. 25.
Just over a quarter million Tennesseans cast ballots during the first eight days of early voting in the Aug. 4 state primaries and county general election contests.
A top Tennessee lawmaker says the General Assembly may need to revisit and "fine tune" the state's near-total ban on abortions amid concerns voiced by doctors that they are at legal risk of being charged criminally and having to defend themselves even when acting to save the life of the pregnant woman or preventing irreversible harm to her.
