Andy Sher

Saying local school board members across Tennessee aren't fairly compensated for the time they spend on an important and demanding job, state Sen. Todd Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga, said Friday he is introducing a "pay equity" bill requiring board members receive the same salaries and benefits as people serving on county commissions or other local governing bodies.

A Republican effort to cut off funding for President Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandates failed on a close vote in the Senate this week, with 50 Democrats voting to continue funding the mandates and 48 Republicans voting to block them.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee issued his first executive clemencies to 17 people on Thursday, a list that includes the full exoneration of a Grundy County man convicted of a 2006 murder that later evidence revealed he did not commit.

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will rehear a case that resulted in blocking Tennessee's "fetal heartbeat" law, which seeks to criminalize abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected - as early as six weeks into pregnancy.

Tennessee Comptroller Jason Mumpower announced Wednesday he has suspended authority for nearly 70 businesses, universities, hospitals, governmental authorities and other employers to impose COVID-19 vaccine requirements on workers following preliminary rulings by federal trial court judges in Kentucky and Louisiana.

Tennessee officials are eyeing a new round of pay increases to attract and retain correctional officers at 10 state-run prisons where nearly half the positions are now vacant.

As the 100th anniversary of Tennessee's first gas tax approaches in 2024, state government officials here are warily looking down the road at how financing for highway and bridge construction, improvements and repairs will fare in an age when vehicles are powered increasingly by electricity.

Gov. Bill Lee's "Tennessee on Me" tourism promotion campaign - a $2.82 million effort offering $250 air flight vouchers for up to 10,000 travelers booking hotel packages to the state - has received about a fifth of the hoped-for takers.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is reaching out to law enforcement officers from New York City to California who are bristling over COVID-19 vaccination mandates, saying they are welcome to come work for the Tennessee Highway Patrol, regardless of their vaccine status.

The Tennessee Republican Party's approval earlier this year of a plan to require that candidates for federal, state and county elected offices pay a fee to run in a GOP primary is generating a case of ethical, as well as political, heartburn for state judges and judicial candidates.

The state's 60-year-old Moccasin Bend Mental Health Institute would undergo a massive, $276.52 million renovation under a plan presented by Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's administration to state lawmakers.

Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury Jason Mumpower announced Monday his office has launched a new website to handle applications from businesses, government entities, schools and employers seeking exemptions from the state's new law that seeks to ban COVID-19 vaccination requirements in many instances.

A far-reaching effort by Tennessee Republican lawmakers to rein in COVID-19 mask mandates and vaccine requirements is now state law after being signed Friday by Gov. Bill Lee.

Tennessee is expected to see nearly $8 billion dollars while at least another $12.2 billion is projected to come to Georgia for projects such as highways, bridges, broadband, airports and clean water under a $1.2 trillion bill expected to be signed by President Joe Biden next week.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Wednesday he expects to sign a major bill passed by GOP lawmakers that imposes new limitations on how businesses, public schools, local health departments and others grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tennessee state Sen. Mike Bell's announcement that he won't seek re-election next year to the seat he's held since 2010 has prompted one GOP hopeful to declare his bid for the multi-county Senate seat.

Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Mike Bell, R-Riceville, announced Monday he won't seek re-election to his District 9 seat in 2022, ending what will be a 16-year political career in the General Assembly.

NASHVILLE — Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery and six fellow Republican attorneys general launched a federal court challenge Friday to President Joe Biden's day-old COVID-19 mandates for employers.

Tennessee's biggest health insurer will roll out its vaccination requirement for thousands more workers in the next month.

Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery and fellow Republican attorneys general in Kentucky and Ohio sued the Biden administration Thursday over its Sept. 9 vaccine mandate for federal workers and federal contractors.