Republican lawmakers around the country are pressing ahead with efforts to tighten voting laws, despite growing warnings from business leaders that the measures could harm democracy and the economic climate.

A Tennessee House effort to bar public schools from teaching concepts related to systemic racism to their students triggered a fierce floor debate Tuesday over America's past, with Democrats charging GOP colleagues are ignoring a history that lives to this day.

A major bottleneck for barge shipments on the Tennessee River should be unlocked within the next three years as the Army Corps of Engineers works to complete the building of a new and bigger lock through the Chickamauga Dam in Chattanooga.

When Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee decreed that restaurants and bars across the state could provide alcohol to go, the move provided an unplanned-for revenue source for many who were struggling to stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic.

Hamilton County residents can now test themselves for COVID-19 at home using free, rapid COVID-19 test kits through a county-wide program called "Say Yes! COVID Test."

The top-ranking House Republican on Tuesday renewed his party's attack on Major League Baseball for pulling the All-Star Game out of the Atlanta Braves stadium after Georgia Republicans enacted a restrictive new voting law, saying the sport's leaders were misled by criticism from Democratic President Joe Biden.

Democratic state Rep. Bee Nguyen announced Tuesday that she's running for secretary of state in 2022 to counteract efforts by Georgia Republicans to restrict access to the polls.

Donald Trump and his supporters are intensifying efforts to shame — and potentially remove — members of their party who are seen as disloyal to the former president and his false claims that last year's election was stolen from him.

The final property reappraisals mailed to property owners over the past month show a 27% jump for the typical home since 2017, the biggest average increase in over two decades of reassessing properties in Hamilton County every four years.

Larry Blankenship and his wife, Monica, lived in a trailer on his father's farm for more than 30 years while saving for a home of their own.

Tennessee's Republican lawmakers are mounting a last-minute effort to ban public schools' teaching of certain concepts involving systemic racism, with the bill's sponsor saying citizens "must take a stand against hucksters, charlatans and useful idiots peddling identity politics."

Tennessee lawmakers return to the state Capitol Monday for what they hope is the final week of their 2021 session with dozens of remaining issues before them, ranging from new restrictions on police chokeholds and no-knock warrants to a Republican-led effort to create a new statewide "super" Chancery Court to hear legal challenges to state laws.

A federal lawsuit has been filed challenging Tennessee's new permitless handgun-carry law, which starting July 1 would allow most adults to carry the weapons in public without having firearms training, undergoing state criminal background checks or having state-issued carry permits.

Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly has chosen public health veteran and Chattanooga native Mary Lambert to direct the city's new Office of Community Health.

Raising state taxes to improve roads and bridges is one of the few things many Republican and Democratic lawmakers have agreed on in recent years.

In a state famed for election night fiascoes, Florida's handling of the November presidential vote was hailed as a sign it finally got things right.

When Rep. Matt Gaetz vacationed in the Bahamas in 2018, he was joined by a doctor who donated to his campaign and a former colleague in the Florida Legislature.

Tennessee's upcoming state budget is one signature by the governor away from becoming law, including a one-week sales tax holiday on restaurants, bars and groceries, an infusion of cash into capital maintenance and improvements, and a big paydown into the state's retirement system.

A Chattanooga attorney is one of the prominent voices speaking out against a bill in the Tennessee legislature that would create a "super court" of three judges initially appointed by Republican Gov. Bill Lee that some say is a politically motivated tactic to control the state's judicial system.

Georgia's governor is removing many remaining requirements for social distancing and masked employees from businesses, saying that the state's efforts to control COVID-19 have been successful even as its vaccination rate lags and federal officials continue to warn that the infection rates remain relatively high.

The $42.6 billion budget approved by Tennessee lawmakers on Thursday allocated state funding toward a 4% pay raise for teachers, shored up the pension plan for educators and created a $250 million endowment to bolster student mental health services.

President Joe Biden couldn't get everything he wanted into his own $1.8 trillion families plan.

If the nation is to meet President Joe Biden's goal of cutting America's greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade, it will have to undertake a vast transformation toward renewable energy.