The annual Mississippi Book Festival in Jackson draws more than 8,000 book lovers and provides a counter-narrative to negative stereotypes, as well as year-round programs to develop the state's next generation of writers.

Amazon has promised Ridgeland, Mississippi, that its data center won’t strain local water supplies. Their agreement shows few guarantees.

The Anderson family has been creating pottery out of the same studio in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, since Peter Anderson founded the business in 1928.

The recent appointment of attorney Assma Ali as municipal judge by the small Mississippi Delta town of Benoit drew social media backlash from internet trolls and a few Mississippi politicians, and even reportedly some threats, because she is Muslim.

The Ridgeland Board of Alderman has decided to not end the city’s water fluoridation process two months after voting to discontinue it.

More than half of Mississippi’s rural hospitals are facing serious financial pressures, according to a new 2026 analysis. We look at what’s driving the challenges and how Lackey Memorial Hospital in F...

Advocates warn that the Mississippi Sound  will be “a dead sea within a generation” without corrective action.

Researchers testing a cheap, homegrown oil in Uganda found what cats knew all along – it worked as well as the artificial chemical used globally

Ronnie C. Crudup writes about his friend and mentor, the late John M. Perkins.

Greenwood Leflore Hospital will remain after a Hinds County chancery court judge ordered Mississippi Medicaid to continue a $2.4 million payment.

Attorney Ben Crump says an autopsy shows 1-year-old Kohen Wiley was struck by gunfire that came from beside the car where the toddler was a passenger during a police confrontation with the boy's mother and one of her friends outside a Walmart in Senatobia.

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Tameshia Shelton's release from prison Monday makes her the seventh person to have their murder conviction thrown out in the same judicial district — a state record.

Demonstrators are calling for accountability in the police shooting death of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in the north Mississippi town of Senatobia.

Jackson is one of a growing number of Mississippi cities to consider data center regulations. Clinton and Ridgeland recently passed requirements for data centers, such as how far a center can be from a residential area.

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The amount of solar power generated in the U.S. is continuing to grow.

248 likes, 5 comments - mstodaynews on June 9, 2026: "Lawmakers and advocates inflated a 20-foot statue of an IUD outside the state Capitol Tuesday. Speakers gathered around the replica, called Freeda...

The Walter Anderson Museum of art in Ocean Springs is launching the free Fisheye Film Festival from June 11-13.

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