The City Council voted 6-3 Tuesday night for an average 70 cent-per-month increase on sewer user fees, even as some council members grumbled that now is not the time to raise payments.

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

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Hamilton County commissioners voted Wednesday to accept federal funds for two cars for the Sheriff’s Office and for flu vaccine.

In remarks on the Senate floor this week, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said he agreed with President Barack Obama that the only health reform plan that could be effective is one that lowers costs.

Hamilton County commissioners voted 8-0 Thursday to provide a 14-year tax break to Gestamp Corp., a Volkswagen supplier that plans to bring 230 jobs to Chattanooga.

NASHVILLE -- Gov. Phil Bredesen says "very, very tough" choices await him and Tennessee lawmakers when it comes to Tennessee's upcoming 2010-11 budget.

NASHVILLE -- Former state Sen. Lou Patten, R-Cleveland, announced Saturday he is running for the District 9 state Senate seat held by Sen. Dewayne Bunch, R-Cleveland, who recently said he will not seek re-election.

NASHVILLE -- Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam's Republican gubernatorial campaign announced Friday that he has raised another $1 million since his June 30 report.

NASHVILLE -- State Rep. Richard Floyd, R-Chattanooga, ventured into national gun politics this week with an e-mail to GOP friends in which he called President Barack Obama a "socialist leader" and top administration officials a "gang of thugs."

WASHINGTON — In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous.

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.