Mississippi Today

They play the SEC basketball tournament this week in Nashville. The weather calls for pleasant springtime weather until Saturday, when there...

The Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would increase the regulation and transparency of pharmacy benefit managers, which advocates argue w...

One of the state’s top basketball coaches, Tadlock overcame the loss of all five starters from last year’s championship team and losing his...

The National Transportation Safety Board has completed its initial visit at the site of the medical helicopter crash Monday that claimed thr...

March 12, 1998Millsaps College students protest the death of Jackson State University student and civil rights worker Benjamin Brown, w...

Advocates, Medicaid recipients and their family members gathered outside the Capitol Tuesday to urge both state and federal lawmakers to “pr...

Mississippi lawmakers are poised to ban diversity, equity and inclusion programs from K-12 schools in addition to universities, while the cr...

The federal welfare agency is finally asking Mississippi for its money back – a long-anticipated next step in rectifying the state’s squande...

The University of Mississippi Medical Center has identified the three people killed in Monday’s helicopter crash. The two UMMC employees...

Editor’s note: Lynn Spruill is the second term mayor of Starkville. This piece is part of an ongoing Mississippi Today Ideas series showcasi...

If I’ve heard it said once this basketball season, I’ve heard it a couple hundred times: “The Southeastern Conference is better than it’s ev...

An AirCare helicopter from the University of Mississippi Medical Center crashed near the Natchez Trace Parkway this afternoon.A Madison...

Mississippi River levels have risen in the lower basin again, as annual snowmelt makes its way south. Mayors of cities and towns along the r...

In an exchange on the floor of the Mississippi Senate last week, lawmakers debated the economic uncertainty coming from the Trump administra...

“Noooo!” the vast majority of House State Affairs Committee members shouted for voice votes on two controversial bills aimed at overhauling...

Mississippi Today’s politics team outlines some challenges lawmakers face in the final month of their session from uncertainty of the affect...

Former State Representative and House Speaker Pro Tem Robert Clark, Jr., lies in state at the State Capitol rotunda, Sunday, March 9, 2025 i...

Marshall Ramsey: Oops Mississippi Today.

March 8, 1977Henry L. Marsh III became the first Black mayor of the Confederacy’s capital. Credit: Courtesy: University of Richmond...

A Lafayette County circuit judge ended an attempt to prosecute Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr., the son of a prominent north Mississippi chur...

Nearly five years after a pipeline spewed poison gas across a Mississippi town, federal regulators appeared ready in recent weeks to institu...

Jacksonians hoping for a conclusion to the corruption allegations against the capital city’s mayor, a councilman, and the county’s district...

JXN Water is losing money at a rate it can’t sustain, according to a financial outlook it released last week, as the federal dollars it rece...