Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Tuesday he's looking to include "meaningful" teacher pay raises in next year's budget despite facing financial crunches brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Walker County Sole Commissioner Shannon Whitfield greenlighted two ordinances and approved a new ambulance contract during a commissioner meeting on Oct. 22.

Catoosa County is working to form a coalition of public, private and nonprofit partners to look at whether a lack of affordable workforce housing is an issue in the county's housing market.

As coronavirus cases surge in the community at rates that nearly lead the state of Georgia, commissioners in Whitfield County have once again balked at the idea of mandating masks and even shot down a resolution that would have simply recommended that people wear masks in public.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee says it's "not clear" who won the presidential election, leading the state's Republican elected officials in full-throated support of President Donald Trump, whose legal battles to overturn an apparently decisive presidential victory by Democrat Joe Biden are just beginning.

Chattanooga kicked off the 2022 budget season this week, gathering citizen input to set priorities for a tight budget restricted by COVID-19.

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act on Tuesday in the midst of open enrollment, which kicked off Nov. 1 and runs through Dec. 15 for Tennesseans.

Three Tennessee Republican congressmen are among 39 GOP representatives urging U.S. Attorney General William Barr to ensure the vote-counting process in states where Democrat Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump is run in a manner "fully consistent" with state and federal law and "completely transparent."

Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff will face off in a Jan. 5 runoff in Georgia for Perdue's Senate seat, one of two high-profile contests in the state that could determine which party controls the upper chamber.

A number of Republican leaders in Tennessee and Georgia are lining up behind President Donald Trump on his so-far unsupported claims of fraud and "illegal votes" marring results in key states of his 2020 presidential contest with Democrat Joe Biden.

State Rep. Robin Smith, R-Hixson, is challenging Tennessee House Republican Caucus Chairman Jeremy Faison of Cosby for the group's No. 2 post in leadership elections, saying she believes a different vision is needed in a time where "easy wins are relics of our past."

While votes in the 2020 presidential election are still being counted days after polls closed in several states with razor-thin margins — including Georgia — Republican President Donald Trump won big in the Chattanooga region, with over two and a half times the votes for Democrat Joe Biden.

Northwest Georgia's new congresswoman-elect has found herself front and center in the political battle involving Big Tech, as Twitter began repeatedly labeling her posts on the social media site as potentially misleading.

Vote counting continued in Atlanta-area counties on Thursday as Americans watched from around the nation to see whether Georgia would give Democrat Joe Biden the electoral votes he needs to become president.

The U.S. gambling industry won big at the polls Tuesday, with three states authorizing legal sports betting and three others either approving or expanding casino gambling.

Tennessee House Democrats had high hopes this year of successfully reducing Republicans' 73-representative supermajority in the 99-member chamber with gains of as many as four seats.

Americans won't know the winner of the 2020 U.S. presidential election until well into Wednesday - if not beyond that.

The Associated Press is not calling the presidential race yet because neither candidate has secured the 270 electoral college votes needed for victory.

Incumbent state Sen. Todd Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga, emerged the winner Tuesday night in his hard-fought Senate District 10 race with Democrat Glenn Scruggs.

East Ridge residents can soon buy liquor in the town after voters on Tuesday approved a referendum to allow package liquor sales in the town.

Complete results from the 2020 election in Georgia may not be in until Wednesday at the earliest, but results in contested races in three Northwest Georgia counties all came in before 10 p.m. without a hitch.

Former college football coach Tommy Tuberville has recaptured a U.S. Senate seat for Republicans by defeating Sen. Doug Jones in Alabama. Jones been widely been considered the Senate's most endangered Democrat.

Incumbent Tennessee Republican U.S. Reps. Chuck Fleischmann of Ooltewah and Scott DesJarlais of Sherwood turned back Democratic challengers to win their re-election bids in Tuesday's general election.