For the second time in two months, Chattanooga Tea Party members have traveled to the nation’s capital to protest domestic policy.

Red Bank city commissioners voted Tuesday to study the town's policy on temporary signs and put in place a 60-day moratorium on the fees businesses incur for displaying them.

A proposed capital improvement budget jumped almost $25 million over a year because of spending for the Enterprise South industrial park and the building of fire departments and sewers in annexed areas, records show.

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The Georgia and Tennessee gubernatorial candidates who hail from the Chattanooga area are now both running on a platform that includes states' rights as a plank.

Though there were no major Tennessee races in Tuesday’s elections, U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and attorney Chuck Fleischmann, a Republican candidate for Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District, commented on the day’s significance.

The city of Dalton is saving nearly $11,000 this year because no one wants to challenge the City Council and school board members up for re-election.

KNOXVILLE — Tennessee’s senior elected Republican, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, said Friday night that when it comes to state House Speaker Kent Williams, who was booted out of the party earlier this year, GOP leaders should remember Jesus’ parable of the prodigal son, a wayward figure who ultimately was forgiven.

NASHVILLE — When the state’s largest organization of conservatives hears from 2010 Republican gubernatorial hopefuls at its annual Reagan Day Dinner in Knoxville today, Knoxville mayor — and GOP candidate — Bill Haslam will not be there.

NASHVILLE — U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn., said he continues to think term limits are a good thing and that he never felt “whole” after he broke a 1994 campaign pledge to serve no more than 12 years in Congress.

The one GOP "yes" vote Tuesday on the U.S. Senate Finance Committee's health care bill is no predictor of how Republicans will view the bill that comes to the Senate floor, senators from Tennessee and Georgia said.

NASHVILLE — Nearly half of Tennesseans believe President Barack Obama is a socialist, while one out of three think he wasn’t even born in the United States, according to a poll released Wednesday.

When Tennessee voters step into the voting booths next year, religious faith will be a factor in whose name they mark on the ballot, about half of the 2010 gubernatorial candidates said.