With a week left in the Chattanooga mayoral election, Kim White continues to out-fundraise fellow frontrunners Wade Hinton and Tim Kelly, nearly tripling Hinton and Kelly's individual fundraising totals.

The Hamilton County school board has approved a 1% salary increase for certified and classified staff funded by local and state revenue.

Collegedale City Manager Ted Rogers on Monday said he would step down, but he said it was not in response to calls for his firing or resignation that took place just last week.

A Republican political campaign vendor whose firm received $202,600 in payments from Tennessee House Republicans during the 2020 election cycle was also involved in independent expenditures aiding at least two Senate GOP incumbents last fall, records show.

Former U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler is wading back into Georgia politics weeks after her runoff defeat with the start of a new voter registration group aimed at helping Republicans recover from the stunning Democratic victories in November and January.

Dade County Commissioner Allan Bradford has been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19.

An $18 million conservation effort aimed at protection and conservation of the forests of the Appalachians was launched this week targeting the Chattanooga region with an initial $5.25 million grant focused on protecting key portions of Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia while combating climate change.

Calling the state's system for funding public education broken, Tennessee Democrats on Thursday urged the legislature to fix it and make a major investment that would hire more school-based nurses, counselors, and social workers.

With an FBI investigation hanging over the Tennessee Legislature, changes are improbable in the makeup of the Bureau of Ethics and Campaign Finance.

Paul Lee, the former Ringgold mayoral candidate and professional wrestler, was named in a report from the Georgia Secretary of State's Office alleging Lee tried to buy votes during the 2019 campaign by offering a free meal to any voter if he won the election.

Chattanooga Mayoral Candidate Tim Kelly apologized Thursday after making a joke Wednesday on Facebook about the death of conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh.

Whitfield County is among Georgia's leaders in vaccine distribution, according to a new data dashboard from the Georgia Department of Public Health that went live this week.

The Federal Highway Administration has named five scenic byway routes in Tennessee, including one in the nearby Sequatchie Valley, to its America's Byways list.

A bus driver for a Hamilton County Schools contractor was fired Thursday morning after questioning a school district decision to open schools despite potential hazards from wet roads and cold temperatures.

Hamilton County officials on Thursday confirmed that a much more contagious variant of the coronavirus is spreading in the Chattanooga region, even as they offered the first detailed plans for a third vaccination site to open Friday, at Enterprise South Nature Park.

While at least six states are seeking to cancel student testing this spring as the pandemic grinds on, Tennessee isn't wavering in its plan to give tests in person to most of its nearly 1 million students.

The decision to expand Hamilton County's COVID-19 vaccine effort to include teachers and people age 65 and older next week makes tens of thousands more people eligible for the shots, despite existing demand remaining high.

Planners are aiming for late spring or early summer to finally unveil a road map to re-energize downtown Chattanooga's waterfront after the effort was delayed due to the pandemic.

After the approval of funding, Catoosa County Economic Development Authority Director Keith Barclift is preparing to tackle one of his preliminary goals from when he started his job around two years ago — developing a strategic plan for the county's economic future.

Two Tennessee Republican lawmakers are pressing a bill to allow any man believing he got a woman pregnant to obtain a court injunction blocking her from getting an abortion.

A budget signed Monday by Georgia's governor provides for spending through June and increases spending for education and healthcare.

It could be months or longer before coronavirus-stalled court dockets return to any semblance of normal in Tennessee's 10th and 12th judicial districts, even after a continuing decline in COVID-19 cases led the Tennessee Supreme Court to ease recent restrictions.

Georgia's governor wants President Joe Biden to override a federal regulatory decision that could threaten the future of a giant battery factory being built in the northeastern part of the state.