Governor Bill Lee

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and Republican leaders — predicting passage of a private-school voucher bill in 2025 — will have to outflank conservative groups as well as opponents such as the Tennessee Education Association.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has approved legislation allowing the death penalty in child rape convictions, a change the Republican-controlled Statehouse championed amid concerns that the U.S. Supreme Court has banned capital punishment in such cases.

Draft language has emerged — and disappeared — for Gov. Bill Lee’s school voucher expansion proposal. The plan would offer $7,075 each to up to 20,000 Tennessee students beginning next school year to pay for direct and indirect costs of attending private school and some homeschools.

Gov. Bill Lee is requiring schools to allow exemptions to mask mandates. He signed a new executive order Monday authorizing parents to opt out, without needing to give a reason.

Tennessee lawmakers are getting close to a final vote on a plan to do away with the state’s gun permit requirement.The House Finance Committee approved…

Gov. Bill Lee wants the state to spend about $200 million in what he hopes would bring broadband to every community across the state.The plan was…

A Republican lawmaker wants the legislature to cast a vote of “no confidence” on Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn.Paris Rep. Bruce Griffey, who is…

Federal disaster aid was approved Tuesday in response to the Christmas morning bombing in downtown Nashville.Gov. Bill Lee had requested assistance from…

In a rare statewide address Sunday night, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee escalated his pleas for Tennesseans to follow COVID-19 guidelines to slow the spread of…

Tennessee is the only state that is currently prioritizing building an emergency reserve of the coveted vaccine.A review of each state’s COVID-19 vaccine…