Mississippi Today

Nationally known comedian Rita Brent will host the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Institute’s “Medgar at 100” Concert on June 28.Tickets go on sa...

Residents at Chapel Ridge Apartments in Jackson are left wondering what to do next after months dealing with trash pileups, the possibility...

Two weeks after it was forced to lay off half its staff, the nonprofit group that administers federal family planning money in Mississippi h...

The city of Jackson announced 10 new chargers for electric vehicle owners on Thursday thanks to a $160,000 donation from Entergy.City of...

Less than two weeks from the scheduled execution of Richard Jordan, the Mississippi Supreme Court said it will not reconsider the death row...

The three-person team behind a growing network of gardens and community spaces in Jackson’s Midtown neighborhood received word in February t...

Editor’s note: This essay is part of Mississippi Today Ideas, a platform for thoughtful Mississippians to share fact-based ideas about our s...

Marcus Taylor has been incarcerated for 10 years, serving a sentence that should have ended five years ago. In 2015, a judge sentenced t...

Mississippi Agriculture Commissioner Andy Gipson on Wednesday evening threw his cowboy hat into the ring for governor in 2027.“Gipson fo...

Editor’s note: This essay is part of Mississippi Today Ideas, a platform for thoughtful Mississippians to share fact-based ideas about our s...

After Jackson’s Ward 1 Councilman Ashby Foote unofficially won reelection by 10 votes in a too-close-to-call race last Tuesday, election com...

With the U.S. Open returning to diabolical Oakmont, Jackson’s Mr. Golf, Randy Watkins, returns to Crooked Letter to discuss what golfers wil...

Mississippi hospitals will lose at least $500 million if the Department of Health and Human Services head obeys a memo President Donald Trum...

HATTIESBURG — Sitting in Moore’s Bicycle Shop in Hattiesburg less than three weeks after his 35-year-old daughter died of an overdose, Jonat...

United Healthcare Medicare Advantage plans are no longer in-network at North Mississippi Health Services after the health system terminated...

Thirty candidates have filed paperwork to compete in special elections for the state Legislature this year, and 10 of the 14 races will be c...

A new report ranks Mississippi’s K-12 education at 16th in the nation, the state’s highest ranking ever.The state’s Kids Count score has...

In this episode of Mississippi Stories, Marshall Ramsey gets a behind the scenes look at the making of Jackson’s late night show from comedi...

A coalition of civil rights and legal organizations filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Mississippi’s education boards challenging divers...

Ole Miss Men’s Golf during Round 4 of The NCAA Division 1 Men’s Golf Championship Tournament at The Omni La Costa Golf Course in Carlsbad, C...

Mississippi Today is pleased to announce an expansion of its newsroom and a series of leadership promotions, reflecting the nonprofit newsro...

For the next few weeks, Robert Gibbs’ job won’t be unlike that of a journalist. As the chair of Mayor-elect John Horhn’s transition team...

America lost a gentle giant in journalism when Stanley Nelson, who investigated some of the nation’s most notorious racially motivated slayi...