In a state where firearm thefts from vehicles are a problem, a four-member group of Tennessee big city and big county mayors, among them Chattanooga Mayor Tim …
The Tennessee House on Thursday approved legislation barring public college and university campuses from allowing the China-based TikTok social media platform …
An effort by two Republican lawmakers to proceed with a "nullification" bill based on a historically unsuccessful theory that individual states can invalidate …
Inmates on Tennessee's Death Row would have the choice of being executed by a firing squad as one of their options under legislation moving in the state Senate…
The Tennessee House voted Monday to create two narrow exceptions to the state's near-total abortion ban law, sending the measure over to the state Senate.
A majority of Tennessee Senate Republican Caucus members voted by secret ballot Monday to say Speaker Randy McNally, R-Oak Ridge, still has their confidence af…
U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-California, was in Chattanooga last week for a campaign fundraiser for Congressman Chuck Fleischmann, R-Ooltewah.
Tennessee Democratic lawmakers are skewering Republican Gov. Bill Lee for pushing legislation to abolish the state's 35-year-old independent Tennessee Commissi…
A Tennessee House Republican on Thursday called on Lt. Gov. Randy McNally, the Republican Senate speaker from Oak Ridge, to resign after a social media scandal…
A compromise between state House Republican leaders and abortion foes to provide narrow exceptions to Tennessee's near-total ban on abortions moved though a ma…
A Tennessee gun-carry bill that businesses and others felt put them on their back heels is dead for the remainder of the General Assembly's 2023-24 session.
A pending Tennessee bill eliminating the right of private individuals, businesses and governmental entities to prohibit the possession of firearms or other wea…
Tennessee Right to Life officials said Monday they are backing proposed narrow exceptions to the state's total abortion ban.
Tennessee Lt. Gov. Randy McNally got a send up on "Saturday Night Live" with the weekend comedy show zeroing in on a controversy over the Senate speaker's post…
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Thursday signed into law a measure to slash the size of the 40-member Metro Nashville Council to 20 members, less than an hour after…
Tennessee Lt. Gov. Randy McNally, R-Oak Ridge, is facing criticism for posting encouraging comments and emojis on racy photos posted on Instagram by a 20-year-…
Legislation designating an 8.3-mile stretch of North Chickamauga Creek and a 1.5-mile section of Cain Creek as a Tennessee Class I Natural River Area won appro…
A bill to deny Tennessee economic incentive grants to companies that recognize labor groups organized through a union-friendly employee election process is mov…
Are California and Tennesse's governors barrelling toward a Twitter War Between Two States?
Although Gov. Bill Lee last week signed into law a bill banning gender-affirming health care for transgender children in most cases, much of the national -- an…
The speakers of the House and Senate at the Tennessee General Assembly plan an amendment to allow for creation of charter-run boarding schools and other types …
Tennessee Lt. Gov. Randy McNally said Thursday he might be willing to consider reframing some language in the state's abortion ban if it means better protectin…
Gov. Bill Lee's plan to contract with private companies to build express toll lanes to go alongside existing Tennessee freeways in urban areas barely scraped t…
The Tennessee Senate on Monday approved legislation allowing privately operated public charter schools to enroll up to 25% of their students from outside the l…
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said a high-school yearbook photo of himself as a teen wearing a cheerleader’s uniform, jewelry and wig is not at odds with the state’s…
Tennessee charter schools in Hamilton County and several other school districts could enroll up to 25% of their students from outside the local public school d…
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee was in Palm Beach, Florida, over the weekend, attending a retreat for Republican political types just four miles away from Mar-a-Lago, …
The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee is putting Gov. Bill Lee on notice, saying the nonprofit organization will sue if the Republican governor signs…
On Thursday, The Tennessee House passed two bills dealing with transgender issues, sending one to the governor that would ban the medical community from provid…
A Tennessee House effort to change the state's abortion ban to create an exception in cases where a physician deemed it necessary to prevent the death of a pre…
State Rep. Yusuf Hakeem, D-Chattanooga, is sponsoring legislation to require state officials to develop and implement a continuing education program for Tennes…
It was the University of Tennessee System's top building project request in the state budget as well as state higher education's No. 2 ask.
A sworn deposition released recently by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol provides new, behind-the-scene details about …
The Tennessee Senate has approved legislation expanding the state's education voucher program into Hamilton County, which would allow low-income families to us…
The Tivoli Theatre Foundation and a new hotel being planned for the former Chattanooga Bank Building are both receiving $300,000 grants from the Tennessee Hist…
Tennessee Republican lawmakers are mounting a new effort to limit local primary elections so that only those who declare a political party in advance can parti…
Tennessee's 43-year-old anti-nepotism law would get new clarity and its first set of legal teeth to enforce the ban on state officials hiring and overseeing th…
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti last week joined with 21 fellow Republican state attorneys general to support a federal lawsuit in Texas seeking t…
Gov. Bill Lee will be designating the North Chickamauga Creek Gorge State Natural Area as one of four new Tennessee state parks and is asking lawmakers for $77…
A bill sponsored by state Sen. Todd Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga, to include Hamilton County Schools in Tennessee’s private school voucher program for low-income …
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Monday introduced his proposed $55.6 billion fiscal year 2023-24 budget and priorities. Here is a breakdown of his spending prioriti…
Declaring Tennessee is at a “pivotal moment” in its 226-year history, Gov. Bill Lee on Monday challenged lawmakers during his fifth annual State of the State a…
With state fuel tax revenues already failing to keep up with Tennessee's current highway needs, let alone future demands and pressures, state senators this wee…
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is coming under criticism from some Democratic lawmakers for agreeing with a California-based gun rights organizat…
This much was already known: When U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann was appointed earlier this month by his Republican peers as chairman of the Energy and Water Deve…
File this one under, "If at first you don't succeed, try again."
Tennesseans aged 18 to 20 will be allowed to carry concealed firearms in public under the state's permitless gun carry law after the state settled a lawsuit fi…
Declaring Tennessee the greatest state in the country, Gov. Bill Lee said Saturday the state is leading the nation in areas ranging from economic development a…
As Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee prepares to be sworn in for his second four-year term of office Saturday, the Republican chief executive says the state is "leading …
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Rome, Georgia, Republican firebrand who was stripped of her House committee assignments two years ago by Democrats, was a…