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A new emergency-care hospital is set to open in Smith County early this year. It will house the rural county’s first emergency room in two d...

Marshall Ramsey: January Mississippi Today.

A bill that passed out of the Senate Energy Committee on Wednesday would label natural gas, the predominant energy source in Mississippi, “c...

State employees would get eight weeks of paid maternity leave under a bill that passed the House unanimously Thursday. It now advances to th...

A Senate bill seeking to ban diversity, equity and inclusion offices on Mississippi college campuses would also create a taskforce to study...

Jan. 31, 1863First South Carolina Volunteers hear the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation near Beaufort, South Carolina. Credit: U...

Several health care organizations gathered at the Capitol Thursday to advocate for patients and call on legislative leaders to expand Medica...

The state House is again trying to reinstate Mississippi voters’ right to place issues directly on the ballot. But the latest measure, a...

Randy “Silly Billy” McDonald, relaxing at his vintage clothing store in Jackson, Wedneday, Jan. 15, 2025.“So, funny story,” he begins, s...

Note: This Mississippi Today Ideas essay, published on the heels of the Jan. 29 announcement of the state’s gains in national test scores fo...

A panel of Mississippi lawmakers approved a bill Wednesday that would permit mobile sports betting, a move proponents say would satisfy stro...

Gov. Tate Reeves, a second-term Republican, gave his 2025 State-of-the-State Address outside the state Capitol on Wednesday, January 29....

The Mississippi House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would make it easier to open or add certain health care services in th...

Marshall Ramsey: Unplugged Mississippi Today.

A bill to make a second offense of domestic assault a felony died in committee after Republican senators debated the proper way to prevent d...

Another push to shutter Mississippi’s oldest and infamous prison died in a Senate committee Wednesday.Senate Bill 2047 by Sen. Juan Barn...

The Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus released its legislative agenda with a Wednesday press conference at the Capitol, promoting improve...

A bill that could serve as the vehicle for Medicaid expansion this year passed the Senate Medicaid committee Wednesday morning. The bill...

Mississippi would join all other states in having a requirement for hunters to report the white-tailed deer they kill each season under a bi...

Marshall Ramsey: State of the State Mississippi Today.

With President Donald Trump elevating bans of diversity, equity and inclusion programs to the top of national Republicans’ education agenda,...

Landon Bryant is a top-notch educator. Whether it is in an art classroom or on Instagram discussing one of the South’s little idiosyncrasies...

Marshall Ramsey: The Cost of Eggs Mississippi Today.

Two state lawmakers in Mississippi have introduced bills to restrict the use of Tasers by police following an investigation by Mississippi T...

Mississippi universities scrambled to understand the far-reaching implications of a memo issued by the White House late Monday night that or...