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Last week, Attorney General Lynn Fitch joined what’s shaping up to be a crowded list of candidates running for governor in 2027. Mississippi Today reporters Michael Goldberg and Taylor Vance sit down with Mississippi Today Ideas Editor Bobby Harrison to discuss the candidates who have entered the race and the policy ideas emerging in the […]
The Labor Department sued Battle Fish farm in 2023 for obstruction of a government investigation and retaliatory conduct against farmworkers. Battle Fish denied the allegations. Now, the department is probing conditions at the farm again.
Mississippi continues to rank among the states with the fewest resources for pregnant women. According to the latest report from the March of Dimes, nearly half of the counties statewide are considered maternity care deserts without an obstetric clinician or birthing facility.
Kermit Davis Sr. played basketball at Mississippi State and later coached there. He died Monday at age 91.
Voting rights advocates fear leaders in the state GOP majority will seek to undo Black voting rights gains hard won in Mississippi only after passage of the federal VRA and decades of civil rights work to stamp out Jim Crow suppression.
Alcorn State has hired former longtime NBA guard Monta Ellis as general manager of the men’s basketball program. Ellis was drafted by Golden State in 2005 out of high school in Jackson. Alcorn State describes Ellis as a “proud Mississippi son.”
Congressional Democrats say they are investigating the Trump administration’s efforts to deport military service members and their families. The news follows an Associated Press investigation that found that more than 50 active-duty troops’ spouses and parents have been detained by immigration authorities.
Mississippi has 6,871 dams, with 351 classified as high hazard, 52 as significant hazard, 5,077 as low hazard, and 1,391 unclassified, according to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality’s 2025 annual report.
Marshall Ramsey’s editorial cartoon shows Andy Gipson, Shad White and Lynn Fitch singing as Odysseus begs the three gubernatorial candidates to wait until 2027.
Mississippi’s Opioid Settlement Fund Advisory Council will meet Thursday in Jackson to discuss which awarded grant applicants can rearrange their payment plans.
