Civil rights and voting rights groups have sued Tennessee over the state's congressional map. The suit alleges the map dilutes minority voting strength and that it's "unconstitutional." The GOP-drawn ...

Keel Hunt is a columnist for the USA TODAY Network Tennessee Network and the author of three books on Tennessee politics and culture. These new deals by Republicans in our state legislature deserve a ...

Tennessee's Republican-drawn state Senate map is unconstitutional, a judicial panel ruled Wednesday. Tennessee state Senate districts are required to be numbered consecutively in counties with more ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Last week we gave readers a topographic map of North America and asked them to place Tennessee on it. Tennessee was a challenge for many readers. Fewer than ...

The coronavirus is a pandemic that continues to impact life in Tennessee in a variety of ways. The USA TODAY Network newsrooms in Tennessee are uniquely positioned to cover this crisis. We're ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. East Tennessee and its mountainous terrain are a maze of rivers controlled by dams. Some counties that the Nolichucky River flows ...