Chattanooga City Council's ban on electric scooters may become more permanent as Councilman Ken Smith looks to extend existing legislation.

Georgia lawmakers say they're near a deal to tighten tax collections on some online sales.

A longtime state senator from northwest Georgia has said that he won't seek reelection in November.

Some Hamilton County school board members are trying to ensure they won't be looking for a new superintendent any time soon, but others say they don't think they should be discussing extending Superintendent Bryan Johnson's contract just yet.

Hamilton County school board members reviewed updated recommendations for the district's facilities from the outside firm, MGT Consulting Group, this evening.

After spending a record-breaking $841,000 last year on receptions and events for Tennessee lawmakers, state business, advocacy and nonprofit groups are ready for Tuesday's start of the General Assembly's 2020 session.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's administration has invoked executive privilege multiple times to withhold documents from public records requests, even though such privilege is not defined in the state's law, nor mentioned in its constitution.

Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Mike Bell said he expects Senate and House Republicans to agree on a new abortion-restriction bill and pass it into law this year.

The 60-day Florida legislative session that begins Tuesday will have lawmakers considering everything from coconut patties to a state budget expected to exceed $90 billion.

Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg came to Georgia on Friday to meet influential Democrat Stacey Abrams and then rally a white-collar crowd of supporters around his late-starting, unusual White House campaign.

Georgia lawmakers may remember the 2020 session as the year the good times ended.

Leaders of a U.S. Army Reserve unit that controls thousands of soldiers across the western United States have mishandled at least two sexual assault complaints by not referring them for outside investigation, according to victims, their advocate and documents obtained by The Associated Press.

A former federal prosecutor who served under President Barack Obama said Friday he plans to join the race to challenge newly sworn-in Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia.

The survey of 625 registered voters, conducted Dec. 19-23 by Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy, shows Republican President Donald Trump holding a 51%-44%, or seven-point, advantage over former Vice President Joe Biden, who is his closest opponent.

The political action committee for a voting rights group founded by Democrat Stacey Abrams on Wednesday reported raising more than $14.6 million in the last half of 2019.

Months after news of a possible chicken processing plant relocating to Northwest Georgia began to circulate, the Dade County Commission is taking the final steps in developing an ordinance that would require a special-use permit for industrial development and could put tighter restrictions on future development of any kind.

The Justice Department has thrown a roadblock into efforts to revive the Equal Rights Amendment, finding that an expired pair of deadlines imposed by Congress on ratification of the measure means it's too late for additional states to ratify it now.

The health of low-income people declined more in Southern states that didn't expand Medicaid than in those Southern states that did, with Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama ranking worst, respectively, according to a new study.

A bipartisan panel examining Georgia's high maternal death rate is recommending that state lawmakers extend the amount of time low-income mothers are eligible for Medicaid coverage.

Chattanooga hosted the first meeting of a Tennessee campaign finance watchdog group outside of the state capital on Wednesday, the first step in the board's effort to be more accessible to other parts of the state.

Georgia voters' first impressions are decidedly mixed about what they think of Republican Gov. Brian Kemp's appointment of businesswoman and political novice Kelly Loeffler to the U.S. Senate, according to a new poll.

Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment have filed a federal lawsuit in Massachusetts aimed at clearing a legal path for adoption of the long-delayed constitutional amendment.

Chris Townley has never been known as a loud man.