Andy Sher

A bill barring Tennessee cities and counties from imposing residency requirements on police and other first responders passed the state Senate by a 29-6 vote on Thursday.

A bill ending Tennessee local governments' ability to impose residency requirements when hiring police and other first responders is sounding the alarm for some Chattanooga state legislators.

The name of elusive political vendor Phoenix Solutions LLC doesn't appear in any campaign financial disclosures filed last year by Tennessee Republican House candidate and now-Rep. Todd Warner of Chapel Hill in his District 92 race.

Upset Tennessee Senate Republicans are urging the heads of state universities and colleges to stop student-athletes from kneeling during the national anthem after a Feb. 15 basketball game in Chattanooga.

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.

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 Tennessee legislator says he's both stunned and delighted by the response he's getting in Tennessee, the U.S. and from all over the world on his effort to commission and place a statue of country music legend, actress, businesswoman and humanitarian Dolly Parton on the state Capitol's grounds.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Monday unveiled a $41.8 billion budget proposal with new spending and policy priorities while also touting his administration's health and economic responses to the coronavirus pandemic and praising Tennesseans for their resiliency.

As Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee prepares to outline his spending and policy priorities Monday during his annual State of the State address, the state's largest teachers' union is challenging the Republican to go big on education funding in the fiscal year 2022 budget he will propose.

A few Republicans in the House broke ranks Thursday to support removal of U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her two committee assignments, but none from Tennessee or Georgia.

U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Nashville, says he has joined with fellow congressional Democrats to request that freshman U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Northwest Georgia be removed from the House Education and Labor Committee and also be formally censured.

Local legislators are pressing Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger and county school leaders to restrict the system's share of the $42.9 million recently approved by the Tennessee General Assembly for education salary increases to boost pay only for what the lawmakers consider actual "classroom teachers."

Tennessee Rep. Robin Smith, a Hixson Republican and political consultant, didn't just direct political campaign mail business to a little-known New Mexico firm with ties to all the figures raided this month by the FBI.

Three Tennessee Republican lawmakers whose homes and legislative offices were raided Jan. 8 by the FBI collectively paid $182,794 during the 2020 election cycle for work done by newly minted political firms with little known campaign track records, state filings show.

Lawmakers from Tennessee and Georgia weighed in Wednesday on Democrat Joe Biden's inauguration as the nation's 46th president, and Kamala Harris as vice president, with reactions ranging from praise to threats of impeachment.

Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton has named state Rep. Patsy Hazlewood, R-Signal Mountain, as chair of the Finance Ways and Means Committee, making her the first Hamilton Countian to head the powerful panel in at least 48 years and its second female chair ever.

Tennessee Republican lawmakers on Friday passed a new funding plan for TennCare that they and Gov. Bill Lee say will enhance maternal care and mental-health services while expanding eligibility for low-income residents, although Democrats say it's based on unrealistic projections and could fall to political and legal challenges.

Tennessee and Georgia members of Congress voted along party lines as the U.S. House voted Wednesday to approve President Donald Trump's second impeachment, for "incitement of insurrection" after last week's deadly mob attack on the Capitol.

Tennessee Rep. Mark Windle is not only singing the praises of country music and cultural icon Dolly Parton, he's introduced legislation to erect a statue of the internationally known Tennessee native, songwriter, actress, author, businesswoman and humanitarian on the state Capitol's grounds.

NASHVILLE — Tennessee Republican Rep. Robin Smith of Hixson said Tuesday she has no explanations for Friday's raid by FBI agents on her home and legislative offices but is fully cooperating with the investigation that involves two other lawmakers and legislative aides.