Earlier in the session, the Senate proposed a $2,000 raise, the Senate a $5,000 raise, then they killed each other's bills.

Michael Smith has brought big-time coaching and winning to Booneville. His high school basketball teams have won 765 games and 11 state championships over 22 years.

Education policy has been center stage during this year’s legislative session, including expanding school choice policies that would send public dollars to private schools and raising educators’ pay ...

Former Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba’s motion to dismiss comes weeks after a co-defendant in Jackson’s bribery scandal, Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens, filed his own motion to dismiss ...

Nationwide, family members who step into parental roles save taxpayers and states $10.5 billion by keeping children out of the foster care system. But work requirements and the red tape that comes ...

The Senate Energy Committee advanced a Jackson water bill that would create a separate utility authority and remove the city’s majority control of the authority's board. The bill also contains a ...

Crime victims and family members gathered Wednesday at the Mississippi Capitol for what organizers said would be the first Survivors Speak Mississippi event. They called on lawmakers to reform the sta ...

Pregnancy increases a woman’s chances of being targeted for a number of reasons, including heightened difficulty for them to leave abusive partners. Mississippi has become a hotspot for these deaths ...

Mississippi voters are choosing party nominees for all four of the state's U.S. House seats and one of its U.S. Senate seats.

All four of Mississippi’s incumbent U.S. representatives and its incumbent junior U.S. senator are running for reelection in 2026 and were on the ballot Tuesday.

Thousands of Mississippi voters were made inactive after the secretary of state rolled out unverified credit data from Experian for county election commissioners to perform the routine job of checking ...

The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Permit Board voted unanimously Tuesday to allow xAI to expand its footprint in Southaven.