Mississippi Today

JXN Water confirmed Friday afternoon that it stopped a sanitary sewer overflow into the Pearl River it discovered nine days prior. However,...

Jackson State University alums are blowing up Mississippi lawmakers and the state’s college board inboxes with one clear message: Give us a...

By the final day of “100 Days of Peace” in Jackson Friday, the city once called America’s deadliest had recorded a marked decline in violent...

Murray State’s Racers celebrate one of NCAA Tournament’s many surprises. (Photo courtesy David Eaton, Murray State athletics)College bas...

After nearly a year closed, Thalia Mara Hall has been cleared for reopening after a follow-up inspection from the State Fire Marshal’s Offic...

State Sen. David Parker, a Republican from Olive Branch, announced on Thursday that he will not run in an upcoming special election, creatin...

Local officials and community leaders posed to cameras Thursday morning on Farish Street as they dug their ceremonial shovels into the symbo...

At the University of Mississippi Medical Center, one researcher’s full-time job for the past nine months has been to find out which clinics...

The Democratic Party flipped several seats and made significant gains during Tuesday’s municipal elections across Mississippi. The day-t...

The cafeteria workers knew her only as “grandma.” Every morning, the elderly woman would bring her grandchildren to Key Elementary School of...

After 14 years of pushing for safer air quality for her Pascagoula neighborhood, 78-year-old Barbara Weckesser is tired of waiting for gover...

JUNE 4, 1899Flag, announcing lynching, flown from the window of the NAACP headquarters on 69 Fifth Avenue, New York City, in 1936. Credi...

John Horhn, a longtime state senator, is the next mayor of Mississippi’s capital and will inherit a city with crumbling infrastructure, decl...

With mail-in absentee ballots still uncounted, incumbent Ashby Foote is claiming the victory in the hotly contested Ward 1 council race, eve...

Former Mississippi Medicaid Director Drew Snyder is stepping down as head of the federal Medicaid agency. Snyder, an attorney, was tappe...

Virginia head coach Brian O’Connor talks with officials before an NCAA baseball game against Wichita State, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, in Jackso...

Who will win? In some Jackson council races, not even seasoned politicos know, but one thing is for sure: It all comes down to who votes....

Several efforts to address some of Mississippi’s most urgent problems — its high risk of HIV transmission, the addiction and overdose crisis...

It all started with a question: Why didn’t Clarksdale, the Mississippi Delta city where “Sinners,” one of the biggest motion pictures in the...

Organizers of the Medgar Evers at 100 Weekend have announced that Ambassador Attallah Shabazz, Bettie Dahmer and Reena Evers-Everette will h...

Jackson residents are returning to the polls a third time this year for the June 3 general election to elect a new mayor and council members...

In the fallout of over 9,000 Mississippians dying of overdoses since 2000, lawyers and lawmakers have set up a plan to distribute the hundre...

House Speaker Jason White removed Stacey Hobgood-Wilkes, a Republican from Picayune, as chairwoman of the House Drug Policy Committee last w...

Out of six candidates on the mayoral ticket in Jackson’s June 3 general election, the one who takes home the most votes will be elected to o...