A top Chattanooga-based BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee official is questioning a private data firm's assertions the nonprofit insurer paid out $11 million in medical overcharges during a three-year period in its role as a third-party administrator of state employees' health plan.
In a state where their party is a "super minority" in Tennessee's Republican-dominated Senate and House, Democrats hope to make inroads in the November election in changing urban and suburban-based districts, including a Chattanooga-based Senate seat.
Rep. Yusuf Hakeem, D-Chattanooga, says the effort falls well short
State Rep. Yusuf Hakeem and fellow legislative leaders warned Wednesday that Black residents and other poor-to-lower-middle-class Tennesseans face being undercounted by the U.S. Census Bureau, which could cost them in terms of political representation and millions of dollars in funding for programs.
State education officials launched Tennessee's new COVID-19 reporting website on Wednesday, which shows 756 active coronavirus cases among students and staff in public and public charter K-12 schools.
Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee is torpedoing rumors that he's no longer enjoying his job and won't seek re-election in 2022 amid battles on the COVID-19 pandemic, politics and other fronts.
While some prominent national-level Republicans publicly oppose President Donald Trump's reelection, that isn't the case among top local and Tennessee Republicans, where even the state's most prominent 2016 "never Trumper" is silent this year.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is calling the Trump administration's plan to begin distributing a COVID-19 vaccine to states possibly as early as Nov. 1 "a very hopeful prospect."
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's administration is spending $4.32 million on the state's "Face It" multimedia ad campaign in which the governor is betting on persuasion over a statewide mask mandate to convince Tennesseans to proactively curb spread of the coronavirus.
A new wave of COVID-19 is sweeping through a Tennessee prison with 965 inmates and staffers at the privately run South Central Correctional Facility in Middle Tennessee testing positive, state officials announced Monday.
