The Tennessee General Assembly reconvenes on Tuesday. In addition to passing a state budget and debating laws impacting 6.8 million residents, state lawmakers will turn their attention to something they only do once a decade. A lot is at stake.
Ken Moody is currently a special assistant to City Mayor Jim Strickland and serves as a liaison to businesses, religious leaders, neighborhoods, nonprofits, and government officials.
The U.S. District Court of North Mississippi in Oxford issued an order to the city of Horn Lake to approve plans for a mosque to be built off the corner of Horn Lake Road and Church Road.
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves says the amount of marijuana that would be allowed is holding up legislation on making medical marijuana legal in the state.
Medicaid expansion is a topic that's sparked debates at the State Capitol for nearly a decade.But some Mississippians say it should be on the priority list when lawmakers come back next month.
Sam Hardiman talked about his recent story that focuses on where Memphis Light, Gas and Water (MLGW) is going to get its electricity after bids were due last week.
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves was on CNN Sunday morning, discussing his thoughts on the oral arguments for the Mississippi abortion case that took place in the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Senate Democrats hope to get the Build Back Better plan passed by Christmas. Party leadership has said it would like to get it on the Senate floor this month.
Recently, Governor Tate Reeves called for the removal of Critical Race Theory from schools in the state and even said he would use state money to ban it from the classroom.
Hardiman talked about his recent story on tax revenue numbers for the city of Memphis, which is seeing more growth than projected and what it means for the city.
Shelby County has released a statement that it is dropping its lawsuit against Tennessee Governor Bill Lee over his executive order that gave parents the ability to opt-out their children from wearing masks in schools.
Shortly after the mask mandate ban was signed into law by Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, a lawsuit was filed against Lee and his education secretary Penny Schwinn.
By only a margin of 22 votes (221-213) in the U.S. House of Representatives, the much talked about $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill will now be going to the desk of President Joe Biden.
Tennessee State Sen. Brian Kelsey describes the five-count federal indictment against him as “a political witch hunt” by the Biden Administration and Democrats.
Time is running out on the federal voting rights bill and in a last-ditch effort to save it, activists across the country traveled to Washington, D.C. to call on President Joe Biden to do something he’s been reluctant to do since taking office.
Protestors gathered outside the Mississippi governor’s mansion in Jackson Monday afternoon, demanding Governor Tate Reeves call a special session for the proposed Mississippi medical cannabis program.
Tennessee lawmakers will gather Monday for a special session focused on the Ford manufacturing plant set to be built at the Memphis Regional Megasite. Lawmakers will consider an incentives package totaling almost $900 million.
Action News 5 is hearing from the first candidate to officially announce he’s running for the job: potential Republican nominee and Memphis City Councilman Worth Morgan.
Gov. Tate Reeves and Accelerate Mississippi Executive Director, Ryan Miller, will discuss the state’s efforts to better organize and develop workforce development strategy.
Slatery says he would only appeal two out of the three lawsuits filed by families and advocates who are opposed to the Republican governor’s latest executive order.
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Dec. 1 in a case that threatens to overturn the decades-old abortion protections established under Roe v. Wade.
