Sen. Derrick Simmons, D-Greenville, tells Mississippi Today’s Bobby Harrison and Taylor Vance that expanding Medicaid, restoring the initiative and helping the Mississippi Delta are topics he...
Sarah Fowler is reporting on the water crisis in Jackson, Miss., in the state where she was born and raised, as part of The Times’s Local...
Feb. 4, 1913 Rosa Parks with Martin Luther King Jr. Credit: Wikipedia Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. Although she is best known for refusing...
During a nasty 2023 campaign, incumbent Gov. Tate Reeves derisively criticized his Democratic opponent Brandon Presley for taking campaign contributions from his “solar panel buddies …...
The Mississippi Senate this week unanimously passed a bill to regulate how insurance companies decide which medical procedures or prescription drugs to cover for a consumer...
Mississippi lawmakers, who for years have restricted abortion access, recently voted to provide millions of dollars in tax breaks and cash to lure Amazon, which provides...
Feb. 2, 1955 Adam Clayton Powell Credit: Wikipedia Less than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court had desegregated public schools, U.S. Rep. Adam Clayton Powell...
The state House on Thursday approved legislation to legalize mobile sports betting, putting Mississippi on track to join a growing number of states to legalize a...
COLUMBUS — Nora Miller, the president of Mississippi University for Women, opened a letter from her deans in 2022 that warned the country’s first state-supported women’s...
Twelve Senate Democrats did not vote for a resolution Thursday honoring U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith as being the first woman elected to represent Mississippi in Washington...