Tim Kelly will lead Chattanooga for the next four years, after a campaign in which he promised a more equitable future for city residents.

Chattanooga's three undecided municipal elections will be decided Tuesday, with runoffs for mayor and two open city council seats.

The retirement of 10th Judicial District Circuit Court Judge Larry H. Puckett has drawn two applicants for replacing him, one short of the number required under state law, so that means Gov. Bill Lee could throw a third name into the hat.

Saying Tennesseans need to get off the public dole and back to work, House Republican leaders are supporting legislation to cut the time frame for the state's unemployment benefits by more than half.

With either choice, Chattanooga voters next week will elect as their next mayor a veteran business manager with no prior experience in elective political office.

When government, the private sector and nonprofits join forces, good things are bound to happen.

Former opponent Wade Hinton endorsed Chattanooga mayoral runoff candidate Tim Kelly on Wednesday, solidifying Kelly's standing with defeated candidates from the general election.

A bill allowing Tennessee parents to block their children from taking part in school lessons involving LGBTQ topics cleared the state Senate on Monday after heated debate over the measure, which requires schools to provide parents at least 30 days notice before the subject comes up in class.

Despite his business and political successes, Tim Kelly says he wasn't born with an entrepreneurial spirit.

Kim White wasn't always notable — or even audible — to those around her.

Sponsors call it a method to protect the identity of donors to nonprofits such as Habitat for Humanity. Critics say it could open the pathway for out-of-state "dark money" to flow into political campaigns.

When Tennessee lawmakers pushed last summer to increase penalties against demonstrators demanding police reform, they did so in the name of supporting law enforcement.

A year after putting the program on hold as the COVID-19 pandemic started, Gov. Bill Lee injected $250 million into his fiscal year 2022 spending plan for a K-12 mental health trust fund.

Tennessee Republican House Speaker Cameron Sexton's bill to ban legislators from handling colleagues' government-funded constituent mail services ran into complications this past week.

Members of Congress were among the first people in the U.S. to have access to the sought-after COVID-19 vaccine when the initial doses became available in December.

The Chattanooga City Council on Tuesday passed a steep slopes measure aimed at protecting construction sites and homeowners, but the ordinance drew fire from builder and development groups.

Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger announced Monday he will extend the countywide mask mandate through April 28 and then will lift the requirement.

Issues of economic, educational and housing equity took center stage as Kim White and Tim Kelly met in their second debate ahead of the April 13 Chattanooga mayoral election runoff.

In a legal maneuver last year, a coalition of small school districts in Tennessee joined a lawsuit brought by Shelby County and Metro Nashville Public Schools over the adequacy of the state's public education funding.

President Joe Biden on Friday called a sweeping Republican-sponsored overhaul of Georgia's elections laws "outrageous" and "an atrocity," and urged Congress to move quickly to bolster voting rights across the nation in response.

Here are some of the current and former Tennessee officials who are paying tribute to the late former U.S. senator, congressman, Republican National Committee chair, U.S. trade representative and U.S. labor secretary Bill Brock, who died Thursday:

Toppled last summer by protesters from its prominent perch before the Tennessee state Capitol, the statue of late 19th and early 20th Century newspaper editor, U.S. senator, alcohol prohibitionist and segregationist Edward Ward Carmack appears unlikely to return to its pedestal.

Former U.S. Sen. Bill Brock, a Republican businessman from Lookout Mountain who also served in Congress and as U.S. trade representative, died Thursday in Fort Lauderdale, a family spokesman said.