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NASHVILLE -- Join the Department of Revenue on July 30 at 9 am Central time for a free webinar to discuss 2024 legislative updates.

Roadway Activity Report – Region 2 (Parts of East and Middle Tennessee) for July 25-31, 2024

GREENBRIER, Tenn. - The Special Investigations Section of the Tennessee Department of Revenue conducted the investigation that led to today’s arrest of Brittany Cardwell for tax evasion. Her bond was set at $5,000.

Nashville - The final FAFSA countdown is on! There are only 10 days left for students in the Class of 2024 to finish their FAFSA before the August 1 deadline to qualify for Tennessee Promise.

Nashville, Tenn. (July 23, 2024) – Tennessee tourism generated a record $30.6 billion in direct visitor spending and saw 144 million visitors to the state in 2023, according to newly released data from Tourism Economics and the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development. Tennessee’s direct visitor spending increased 6.2% in 2023. This follows two consecutive years of double-digit growth, driving Tennessee to a 125% recovery over 2019 pre-pandemic levels.

NASHVILLE--Tennessee Department of Financial Institutions Commissioner Greg Gonzales announced today that the maximum effective formula rate of interest in Tennessee is 12.50 percent per annum. The rate is based on a ceiling of 4 percent over the weekly average prime loan rate of 8.50 percent as published by the Federal Reserve on July 22, 2024.

The Tennessee Department of Agriculture (TDA) has named Dr. Prabha Liyanapathiranage the new State Plant Pathologist.

Beginning Monday, July 22, the Department of Safety and Homeland Security’s Driver Services mobile units will be at the City of Lebanon Public Works Complex, located at 410 Park Drive, Monday - Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. while the Lebanon Driver Services Center is closed for a planned remodel until January 2025.

On July 19, at approximately 7:47 p.m. while on patrol in Putnam County on I-40, mile marker 285, near the Burgess Falls exit, Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) Trooper Adam Cothron pulled a white Kia Forte over for a traffic violation. During the interaction with the two black males within the Kia, Trooper Cothron was shot. The two males then fled the scene and abandoned the Kia on Hwy 109 near Gallatin, TN.

A $10,000 reward is now being offered by the Tennessee Department of Agriculture (TDA) for information leading to the apprehension, arrest, and conviction of the person or persons responsible for vandalism and theft on Franklin State Forest.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Today, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and Department of Economic and Community Development (TNECD) Commissioner Stuart McWhorter announced they will travel to the United Kingdom for a strategic economic development trip to strengthen relationships with European businesses and increase investment from trusted global companies in Tennessee, spurring continued economic growth and job creation for Tennesseans.