Tennessee Local Development Authority members Monday approved a $20 million low-interest loan to Chattanooga for a planned $48.47 million project to correct long-standing problems with sewer overflows and infiltration that landed the city in hot water with federal officials nearly a decade ago.
Tennessee Comptroller Jason Mumpower has named Toni Chadwick as the new head of the state's Office of Open Records Counsel, which serves as a resource for residents, news organizations and government on questions involving state public records and open meetings laws.
The terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel is generating bipartisan condemnation by top Tennessee and Georgia Republican and Democratic elected leaders.
The cities of East Ridge and South Pittsburg as well as Rhea, Grundy and McMinn counties will see a combined $6.4 million in state funding for local parks and recreation projects, Gov. Bill Lee and the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation said in a news release.
U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Southeast Tennessee, says this week's ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy by a coalition of eight GOP hard-liners and 208 Democrats serves notice of how disciplined Democrats are and the need for GOP members to elect a new speaker who can inspire the conference to act likewise.
Tennessee will become the first state to extend early intervention services to infants and children with developmental delays or disabilities until they reach school age, the state Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities announced Wednesday.
U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Knoxville, was already struggling publicly over whether to support then-Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy against an effort by a handful of GOP hardliners to oust the speaker this week.
U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Knoxville, was one of eight Republicans who joined with 208 Democrats to knock Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-California, from his position as House speaker Tuesday.
U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., said Tuesday he is poised to vote to remove Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy as head of the chamber while the Knoxville congressman noted it isn't an easy decision.
Six of Tennessee's eight Republican congressional members opposed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's government funding deal over the weekend to keep the government running through Nov. 17, averting a government default.
