Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Monday temporarily halted distribution of free masks intended to slow the spread of COVID-19 following a news report raising safety concerns about an anti-microbial agent used to treat the black, knitted cloth coverings.
A drop in Tennessee state revenue as a result of the coronavirus pandemic could leave the state hundreds of millions of dollars short for government operations, according to four state economists.
NASHVILLE - Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's criminal justice reform legislation is dead for the year, as is a separate legislative effort by Rep. Patsy Hazlewood, R-Signal Mountain, to put a new victims' rights constitutional amendment before Tennessee voters in 2022.
State legislation drafted in response to Hamilton County government's destruction of public records cleared its first Tennessee House hurdle this week with both a new sponsor and an amendment.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Thursday that his administration is in contact with Hamilton County officials and now plans to boost testing as a result of a dramatic rise in local positive COVID-19 cases that has ranked Chattanooga among the nation's top four areas for fast-growing caseloads.
As Tennessee lawmakers trickle back to the state Capitol Tuesday to resume their session, the primary order of business is grappling with a projected coronavirus-created state revenue shortfall that will dictate spending cuts in both the current budget and the new one taking effect July 1.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Friday signed his latest COVID-19 executive order, No. 38, which increases the number of people who can participate in social and recreational activities from 10 to 50.
A group of state Democratic lawmakers say Gov. Bill Lee is "failing" thousands of jobless Tennesseans who remain in financial "limbo" amid continuing logjams of unprocessed unemployment claims.
Tennessee National Guard medical personnel will be in Hamilton County on Thursday and Friday to help the Chattanooga Housing Authority provide free, voluntary COVID-19 testing to families and residents at four CHA communities, Gov. Bill Lee's administration announced Wednesday.
A new poll finds Tennesseans continue to favor Republican candidates in the GOP-leaning state while also revealing close partisan divisions on a coronavirus-related political issue: whether to let all voters cast ballots by mail in 2020 elections.
