Nashville Congressman Jim Cooper says the House of Representatives can’t wait until next month to reconvene. He and three colleagues have sent letters to Speaker John Boehner and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi asking them to call Congress back in session.

An increasing number of Tennessee’s children are growing up in households where putting food on the table is a challenge. The latest Kids Count report shows it’s a problem that nearly doubled in less than a decade.

The Tennessee Valley Authority will soon decide whether to move forward on restarting work at an old nuclear plant in Alabama, southwest of Chattanooga. But a watchdog group says it wouldn’t be worth the trouble to salvage TVA’s Bellefonte plant, which has sat unfinished for decades.

Turmoil in the financial markets has temporarily put the brakes on a bond refinancing by Metro Government. The city is trying to get a lower interest rate on roughly $100 million in bonds, originally used to pay for construction projects at parks and schools.

Tennessee has become the U.S. Department of Education’s case in point when it comes to why No Child Left Behind needs to change.

When Humphreys County, a sprawling rural county northwest of Nashville, had a property reappraisal this year, they found the county didn’t gain in value – it lost. Humphreys is among a half dozen Tennessee counties where the property tax base in slipping.

Davidson County’s Metropolitan government is taking one of its own cities to court.

Tennessee Representative Chuck Fleischmann will be among 81 members of Congress visiting Israel during the August recess.

A downgrade of the nation’s debt by one rating agency has Tennessee’s congressional delegation playing the blame game.

For the second year in a row, Business Facilities magazine has ranked Tennessee as the top state for Automotive Manufacturing Strength.