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

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 ...

The Senate voted Thursday to spend $15 million on child care vouchers to help alleviate the pressure on roughly 20,000 low-income Mississippi families waitlisted for subsidies since pandemic-era ...

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

But the real impact of those policies is felt in the everyday lives of people across Mississippi. As a former Mississippi legislator, I spent years working in communities throughout our state. I sat ...

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 ...

Rep. Zakiya Summers, a Democrat from Jackson and a JSU alumna, said she hopes the next president comes into their role with a clear vision to move the university forward. This vision should include a ...

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 ...

A Hinds County Chancery judge on Wednesday ordered the Mississippi Division of Medicaid to temporarily stop collecting money owed by Greenwood Leflore ...

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

Crime victims and family members gathered Wednesday at the Mississippi Capitol for what organizers said would be the first Survivors Speak Mississippi event. They called on lawmakers to reform the sta ...