Melissa Brown is the Bureau Chief for Chalkbeat Tennessee. She joined Chalkbeat from The Tennessean, where she covered state politics and government policy. Before moving to Tennessee, she reported on ...

Two combat veterans are joining the race to replace outgoing Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Green, while a former political operative is considering a candidacy for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District ...

The Southern Environmental Law Center filed a petition with the Environmental Protection Agency noting the Memphis area's ...

Federal prosecutors on Monday detailed legal arguments for the detention until trial of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran ...

The list of possible candidates for a special election to replace outgoing U.S. Rep. Mark Green is growing after his second decision to quit before his term ends in 2026, with one person confirming he ...

CoreCivic lost nearly $45 million in state payments over three years but is landing a windfall as part of the state’s ...

Advocates for low-income and disabled Tennesseans sounded the alarm over federal bill that could slash $1.1 trillion over the ...

Two U.S. House committees have launched an inquiry into Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell's response to immigration ...

Rural Tennessee lost hundreds of independent physicians over a four-year period as the overall number of doctors serving ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man the Trump Administration conceded had been wrongly deported to a notorious El Salvador prison, has been returned to the United States and is scheduled to be ...

A U.S. Department of Homeland Security official accused Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell of “harboring” immigrants without ...

The Lee Company, Gov. Bill Lee's family's company, joined FedEx and Amazon in receiving Tennessee’s biggest new business tax ...