A state panel Monday forwarded the names of current Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director David Rausch and two other nominees to Gov. Bill Lee, who is expected to select one of them to lead the state's premier law enforcement agency for a six-year term.
Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday took issue with characterizations of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol as an "insurrection" while also calling the U.S. House's ongoing Jan. 6 hearings into Donald Trump's efforts to pressure officials to overturn the 2020 election results a "big distraction."
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett was driving a state vehicle when he was arrested and charged with driving under the influence last weekend in Tullahoma, his office stated Tuesday.
Hamilton County's ongoing effort to address its sewer problems has received a state assist in the form of $1.86 million in low-interest planning and design loans for five plans or projects under consideration by the county's Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett says he was charged with drunken driving Friday night after leaving the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Coffee County.
Former President Donald Trump on Friday lambasted former Vice President Mike Pence for not having the courage to go along with a plan to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton, R-Crossville, and Lt. Gov. Randy McNally, R-Oak Ridge, will honor victims of violent crime and their families in Chattanooga on Friday during a ceremonial signing of their recently passed Truth in Sentencing bill.
Pundit, activist and Donald Trump critic Bill Kristol is laying odds that the former president will run again in 2024.
NASHVILLE - A monthslong legal battle has ended between the state of Tennessee and a Georgia-based nonprofit group whose emergency shelter in Chattanooga for unaccompanied migrant minors was suspended by the state following allegations of sexual misconduct involving three staffers and several teens last July.
The Democratic-controlled U.S. House last week approved two gun-control bills along largely partisan lines.
