State Sen. Raumesh Akbari concentrated on women’s issues in her portion of the keynote address backing Joe Biden in a virtual Democratic National Convention Tuesday night, Aug. 18.

When Southeastern Conference teams begin playing a 10-game conference-only schedule Sept. 26, the University of Tennessee Volunteers could play football in Neyland Stadium this season with only 25,000 fans.

The state senator is accused of embezzlement and wire fraud in connection with her business, The Healthcare Institute.

Gov. Bill Lee’s media briefing is scheduled for 4 p.m. today.

The lawsuit asks the Davidson County Chancery Court to declare the Capitol Commission’s recent vote to remove the Forrest bust “null and void.”

State Rep. Mike Carter, who missed last week's legislative special session, has been hospitalized with COVID-19 in the intensive care unit at a Chattanooga hospital.

State Sen. Raumesh Akbari will give a keynote speech Tuesday, Aug. 18, with 16 other “rising stars” at the Democratic National Convention.

While some Republicans shied away from the notion they were targeting protesters with legislation toughening penalties for rowdiness, Democrats said the GOP-controlled Legislature put a "knee on their neck" during the 111th General Assembly second extraordinary special session.

Feeling heat from state lawmakers, parents and school districts, the Lee Administration is reversing a massive plan for school districts to conduct “welfare checks” on every child in the state because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Democratic candidate Torrey Harris fired a shot at state Rep. John DeBerry in the state House District 90 race, criticizing his support of legislation designed to crack down on protesters statewide and around the Capitol.

Legislation making camping on restricted state property a felony is “ludicrous,” state Sen. Raumesh Akbari said as the Legislature wrapped up a special session designed, in part, to stop “lawless” activity and send protesters packing.

Gov. Bill Lee’s press briefing is scheduled for 3 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13.

The Tennessee Department of Human Services is reminding parents the deadline is approaching to apply for a program to help provide food for their children during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Tennessee lawmakers passed legislation Wednesday, Aug. 12, setting a "higher bar" for people to sue businesses, schools and healthcare facilities accused of making them sick through negligence.

Legislation to toughen penalties for protesters around the Capitol passed the Legislature Wednesday, including a provision making illegal camping on state property a felony offense.

Democratic lawmaker called the House’s Republican leader a “liar” for saying those who voted against a legislative crackdown on protesters support spitting on law enforcements officers.

Senate committees are set to consider competing legislation Tuesday dealing with COVID-19 liability immunity and the punishment of protesters in the Legislature’s special session.

The state attorney general would have authority to file criminal charges against protesters under legislation introduced for a special session of the General Assembly, overstepping local district attorneys general.

Indicted for allegedly taking more than $600,000 from her federally-funded business for personal expenses, state Sen. Katrina Robinson traveled extensively with taxpayer money to legislative conferences in her first year as a state lawmaker.

The ACLU is claiming victory in a Supreme Court decision, but Gov. Bill Lee thinks the state took the right step in fighting universal absentee balloting during the COVID-19 pandemic.

On the eve of election day, the state's highest court rules the expanded access to absentee ballots for the August elections means all of those votes will be counted. But for November, absentee ballots will not be open to all who have general concerns for their health if they vote in person instead of by mail. There was a dissenting opinion on the court.

Robert Cooper used a line from the Eagles song “Hotel California” to argue that Metro Nashville and Shelby County will be hurt financially by the state’s Education Savings Account program.

Gov. Bill Lee, faced with opening schools in the midst of a pandemic, promised more “transparency” Tuesday, Aug. 4, on reporting COVID-19 cases in schools but declined to say the public will be given case numbers for every school statewide.

Gov. Bill Lee is scheduled to speak today at a 3 p.m. press briefing. 

Gov. Bill Lee's decision to allow high school contact sports such as football and girls' soccer is drawing incredulity and support as the season nears.