Lawmakers are considering spending over $480 million on the Mississippi Department of Corrections for the next fiscal year, an increase of $12 million.

Mississippi efforts to pass Medicaid expansion evaporated with the passage of President Donald Trump's so-called One Big Beautiful Bill.

Civil rights leader John Perkins, 95, died Friday under hospice care. His funeral service is set for March 21 at New Horizon ...

Two bills aimed at authorizing county sheriffs and deputies to use radar guns to catch speeders died this legislative session, but 19 counties have adopted resolutions in support of the legislation.

To address its teacher shortage, Clarksdale public schools are cultivating future educators among current students in the Delta.

Max Baria helped St. Stanislaus win the 3A high school boys basketball championship. He has been surrounded by love since being adopted as a baby by a couple whose 10-year-old son died after Hurricane ...

A bill cleared the Legislature on Wednesday that would temporarily ease state approval requirements for rural hospitals, allowing them to add new services or make costly upgrades as lawmakers aim to ...

Corey Wiggins, a Hazlehurst native and federal co-chair of the Delta Regional Authority, will be the next president of Tougaloo College effective July 1. He will be the 15th president in the school’s ...

If the governor signs the bill, Mississippi would become the first state in the country to ban neutrality agreements and the fourth state to require private ballots, according to Workers for ...

The House is trying to revive efforts to pass a teacher pay raise, with Speaker Jason White says his chamber is listening to ...

Earlier in the session, the Senate proposed a $2,000 raise, the Senate a $5,000 raise, then they killed each other's bills.

Teacher pay raise bills were victims of ongoing, and often inexplicable, political infighting between House and Senate ...