TN governor signs law requiring new citizenship vetting for voters if feds develop national database Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed into law a new citizenship vetting process for voter registration slated to take effect in 2028 should the federal government make a national database of non-citizens available to county elections officials across the nation. The legislation, brought by Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson of Franklin and House Leader William […]

Visual: What a TN U.S. House map would look like without a Memphis Democratic-held seat President Donald Trump announced Thursday that Tennessee’s legislative leaders had agreed to draw new maps that would eliminate the state’s only majority-minority district in Memphis in hopes of handing Republicans a 9-0 advantage in the state’s U.S. House map.

TN GOP discussing eliminating the state’s only Democratic-held U.S. House seat Update: President Donald Trump said in a social media post that Gov. Bill Lee and the Republican legislature had agreed to draw new maps.

TN Board announces Class 11th, 12th supplementary 2026 dates, exams in June-July

TN Court of Appeals rules in governor’s favor in National Guard deployment to Memphis The Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled that the seven state and local Democratic officials lacked standing in their case to block Gov. Bill Lee from deploying the state National Guard in Memphis. The ruling dealt a significant setback to efforts to stop the National Guard from operating in Memphis after Lee, a Republican, deployed […]

Power outage after speeding car smashes electric pole in Salem, TN