Andy Sher

Tennessee Republican Party leaders on Wednesday night rejected Hamilton County school board candidate Cindy Fain's effort to void rival Jon Baker's May 3 GOP primary victory for the District 6 seat.

Tennessee Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bobby Rolfe is departing from his job as the state's chief business recruiter on July 11 to return to the private sector, Gov. Bill Lee announced Tuesday.

NASHVILLE — Gov. Bill Lee announced Monday he is ordering new accountability measures for school safety, an evaluation of Tennessee law enforcement training and new resources to support parents, teachers and police in improving school security practices following the May 24 mass shooting at a Texas elementary school in which an 18-year-old man fatally shot 19 students and two teachers and wounded 17 others.

The state is accepting applications for a new six-year appointment as head of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

Hamilton County Republican mayoral nominee Weston Wamp survived an effort by second-place finisher Sabrena Smedley on Friday to scuttle his May 3 victory in the county's GOP's primary in a vote before the Tennessee Republican Party's Primary Board.

Republican mayoral nominee Weston Wamp, who won Hamilton County's May 3 GOP primary, will defend his victory to Tennessee Republican Party State Executive Committee members on Friday.

A supermajority of Tennesseans — 80% — think abortion should remain legal in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is in danger, according to a new Vanderbilt University poll.

The Tennessee Board of Regents on Wednesday unanimously approved Ty A. Stone as the new president of Cleveland State Community College.

National and Tennessee LGBTQ leaders as well as parents of transgender students Tuesday condemned bills approved by Republican state lawmakers, the latest ones coming in this year's legislative session to prevent transgender athletes from participating in girls' and women's sports in public K-12 education as well as at the college level.

NASHVILLE — In her contest to Weston Wamp's victory in Hamilton County's May 3 Republican mayoral primary election, second-place finisher Sabrena Smedley wants the Tennessee Republican Party's State Executive Committee to set aside the results, citing what she says is crossover voting by Democrats as well as failures by the county election commission and the local party to adequately police the election.

In her formal challenge to fellow Republican Weston Wamp's victory in Hamilton County's May 3 GOP mayoral primary, Sabrena Smedley is relying on a rarely-invoked provision of Tennessee law.

A new poll finds that a slim majority of Tennessee voters - 45.7% to 43.6% - think Democrat Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election over then-President Donald Trump despite the results having been certified in Tennessee and across the U.S.

Hamilton County mayoral candidates Sabrena Smedley and Matt Hullander on Wednesday formally contested fellow Republican Weston Wamp's victory in the May 3 primary election, citing crossover voting by Democrats and asking the Tennessee Republican Party either to declare Smedley the victor or set aside the results of the contest and set a new election.

A federal judge in Nashville on Tuesday struck down a controversial 2021 Tennessee law that required businesses and other entities to post warning signs if they allow transgender people to use public restrooms that match their sex at birth.

Since taking office in January 2019, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has yet to veto any bill approved by his fellow Republicans who dominate the General Assembly, that despite a growing list of bills he has refused to sign and sometimes criticized publicly.

The relationship between Tennessee Senate Finance Committee Chairman Bo Watson, R-Hixson, and his wife, lobbyist Nicole Osborne Watson, is under scrutiny after the powerful chairman's yes vote on the state's $52.8 billion budget bill last month.

While Gov. Bill Lee is in many respects at the top of his game, the Republican governor first elected in 2018 as a political outsider faces mounting challenges from the GOP supermajority, which has dominated the Tennessee legislature since 2011.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has refused to sign into law a controversial "truth in sentencing" bill championed by his fellow Republicans, House Speaker Cameron Sexton and Senate Speaker Randy McNally, saying previous get-tough-on-crime approaches have proven both costly and ineffective.

A Tennessee legislative effort to require local governments to provide workers' compensation benefits to Tennessee professional firefighters formally diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder failed to win approval as state lawmakers wrapped up their annual session last week.

Nearly all abortions in Tennessee would be outlawed if the U.S. Supreme Court follows through with a leaked draft opinion in a Mississippi case that would overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion.