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Members of the rural Porterville Water Association upset with service issues received approval to hold a vote on ousting three board members.

A letter from Mississippi’s congressional delegation asks President Donald Trump to approve federal assistance for five counties impacted by tornadoes and severe storms this month.

The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi said acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche consented to the dismissal of the lawsuit “based on its determination that such a dismissal is commensurate with the public interest and that the matter does not warrant the continued expenditure of government resources.”

Two full-time Clarke County deputies who left the department in what the sheriff called an “attempted internal coup” are back on the job.

Almost half of Mississippi’s 138 school districts have not submitted at least one year of financial audits.

A Family Dollar store is closing in south Jackson, further limiting the places people can buy groceries and school supplies in an area that already has few options.

The Mississippi Department of Human Services on Wednesday set aside $5 million to pay for a childcare program in crisis for over a year. 

Thousands of people rallied Wednesday in Jackson against efforts across the South to redraw political districts in ways that would reduce Black representation.

SR1 College Preparatory and STEM Academy in Canton has received more than $2 million in local and state money since it opened in August 2023.

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History said a collection of 1960s Ku Klux Klan materials discovered at the Department of Public Safety can be viewed by the public in its research library in downtown Jackson.