A Natchez immigration detention center has blocked a Honduran man who came to the U.S. as a 5-month-old and his American-born ...

Both the Senate and House authored bills early in the session that would increase teacher pay. A Senate bill would’ve given ...

Brandon Mayor Butch Lee confirmed that Black Mountain Energy Storage, a Texas-based company, was applying for the zoning permit.

The legislative proposals follow Mississippi Today's ongoing "Behind Bars, Beyond Care" investigative series, which has documented alleged routine denial of health care in Mississippi prisons.

Brandon residents started a petition asking leaders to guarantee that the $6 billion data center project won't raise energy rates or cause pollution.

Nonprofits can serve as bridge builders to help legislators use democracy to focus on quality of life challenges.

State plays Southern Miss on Tuesday night in Hattiesburg in the nation’s best mid-week baseball matchup, a battle of Top 10 teams.

Defense attorneys for former pro wrestler Ted “Teddy” DiBiase Jr. tried to discredit the former director of a nonprofit agency who pleaded guilty to sending federal welfare money to DiBiase’s ...

DraftKings and Entergy, which stand to make millions from state government actions for which they are lobbying, spent more ...

Kev’Veonta Short and Travis Thorn pleaded guilty last week in separate cases in federal court of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for collecting pandemic-related jobless benefits while in prison.

Some Mississippi lawmakers said it’s unlikely they’ll call another committee meeting. The move will likely kill school choice ...

Watson, 48, represented Jackson County in the state Senate for three terms. He later won a bid in 2019 to become secretary of state and was easily reelected to a second term in 2023.