Tennessee News

Tennessee Children's Services Commissioner Viola Miller says proposed additional cuts by Gov.

Here's Gov. Phil Bredesen complaining about those terrible unfunded federal mandates again.

Gov. Phil Bredesen kicked off budget hearings Monday for a state spending plan that the Democrat said he anticipates will be the toughest to assemble since he came into office in 2003.

In what could be a tough call for many, General Motors Co. has offered work at a plant just outside Lansing to 840 of the 2,000 workers who will lose their jobs when GM closes its factory this week in Spring Hill, Tenn., about a half hour south of Nashville.

Law enforcement officers in Tennessee are targeting rural areas for motorists and passengers not wearing seat belts.

Gov. Phil Bredesen has announced that an Aeronautics Grant in the amount of $10,000 has been approved for the Murfreesboro Municipal Airport.

See Rock City and you can see 1 million lights. Rock City Gardens is preparing for its 15th annual Enchanted Garden of Lights beginning Friday and running through Jan.

A veteran from Tennessee who admitted sending child pornography on the Internet and asking two Kentucky women to help set up sexual encounters with children has been sentenced to 12 1/2 years in prison.

WASHINGTON -- Sixteen Tennessee postal stations remain on the chopping block, according to a newly revised list of possible closings released on Friday by the U.S. Postal Service.

Salaried employees at DENSO Manufacturing Tennessee Inc. will have their pay cuts restored in January.

Students attending Tennessee's public colleges and universities can plan on a tuition hike of at least 5 percent next fall, plus fewer course offerings, as a result of further cuts in state appropriations for the campuses, higher education officials said today.

A judge in Middle Tennessee ordered all state child welfare workers in his county to show proof of recent home visits and disclose their case loads.

Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett says he is redoubling efforts to remove dead people from voter registration rolls around the state.

The lawyer for a former Knox County motel employee charged in the 2008 murder of a young Alabama woman says he was illegally detained.

Phil Bredesen says another tax hike to shore up Tennessee's unemployment trust fund appears unavoidable.

Tennessee's consumer-based tax system is fourth most regressive among the states, meaning that lower-income families here pay a higher share of their income in state and local taxes than do more affluent households, according to a new national study released today.

A solar design and installation company says it has put in service the largest solar electric system of its kind in the state.

The family of a 9-year-old Middle Tennessee boy said he died from complications from the swine flu.

TennCare officials say they will be forced to cut some enrollee benefits if Gov.

Tennessee first-year coach Lane Kiffin offered an explanation for those questioning his recent claim about his football team's spotless police record.