Candidates are slowly starting to file paperwork for the more than three dozen Hamilton County elected positions on the ballot in 2022.

Organizations representing long-term care facilities on Friday urged lawmakers working on a bipartisan infrastructure plan to avoid dipping into COVID-relief funds to help pay for the roughly $600 billion in new spending sought for the public works buildout.

Republican politicians are under increasing pressure to speak out to persuade COVID-19 vaccine skeptics to roll up their sleeves and take the shots as a new, more contagious variant sends caseloads soaring.

When Nancy Pelosi raised a glass to Liz Cheney, it was the most unlikely of toasts.

Republican businessman Greg Vital of Georgetown received $77,400 in political contributions during the first 17 days of July in his special election bid for the Hamilton County-based state House District 29 seat, according to the latest filings with the state.

By triggering $1,400 stimulus checks for millions of people and expanding the child tax credit for many families, the pandemic offered a clear takeaway for some officials: That putting tax dollars in people's pockets is achievable and can be a lifeline to those struggling to get by.

When the text message popped up on his phone, Samuel Alfaro didn't want to believe it.

A bronze bust of Confederate Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest was removed from the Tennessee Capitol building on Friday.

Tennessee will resume vaccine outreach - paused earlier this month amid pressure from some conservative state legislators - except for social media marketing aimed specifically at children, according to Tennessee's top health official.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Congress on Friday that she will start taking emergency measures next week to keep the government from an unprecedented default on the national debt, warning that a default would cause "irreparable harm to the U.S. economy and the livelihoods of all Americans."

Ford Motor Co. is not coming to the McDonald Farm site, nor is a sewer treatment plant or a landfill.

President Joe Biden's administration is beginning to make $3 billion in economic development grants available to communities - a tenfold increase in the program paid for by this year's COVID-19 relief bill.

Republican Gov. Bill Lee on Thursday came out in full defense of his administration's firing of the state's vaccination chief and rollback of outreach for childhood vaccines.

President Joe Biden just can't quit Ohio — even if it rejected him in last year's election.

By the thinnest of margins, a move to shrink lot sizes for new single-family homes and boost density in future subdivisions was approved Wednesday by the Hamilton County Commission.

After successfully pressuring Republican Gov. Bill Lee's administration and state health officials to back away from encouraging minors to seek coronavirus vaccines without parental permission, two top GOP lawmakers on Wednesday redirected their focus to Tennessee schools and universities.

Depending on whom you ask, skyrocketing Atlanta crime has people afraid to leave their homes or the city is experiencing an uptick in violence that's not unlike what's occurring in major cities across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Incoming Hamilton County Schools interim superintendent Nakia Towns is ready to start the new school year filling in for departing Superintendent Bryan Johnson.

The Chattanooga Police Department and Unum announced Wednesday a new partnership to aid children following traumatic events that require police presence.

Hamilton County District Attorney Neal Pinkston used county funds to supplement state pay for his wife and brother-in-law, state records show.

Hamilton County Health Department officials are sounding the alarm on the county's recent spike in new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations fueled by the more contagious delta variant.

Two Tennessee Republican lawmakers said Wednesday they received assurances that the state's health agency won't vaccinate minors for COVID-19 without parental consent, doubling back on a decades-old provision about children's vaccination rights that was a lightning rod in the firing of the state's top vaccine official.

Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly has tapped businessman and longtime Republican activist Oscar Brock for a newly created role as the city's director of intergovernmental relations.