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

Education policy has been center stage during this year’s legislative session, including expanding school choice policies that would send public dollars to private schools and raising educators’ pay ...

Michael Smith has brought big-time coaching and winning to Booneville. His high school basketball teams have won 765 games and 11 state championships over 22 years.

Former Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba’s motion to dismiss comes weeks after a co-defendant in Jackson’s bribery scandal, Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens, filed his own motion to dismiss ...

Nationwide, family members who step into parental roles save taxpayers and states $10.5 billion by keeping children out of the foster care system. But work requirements and the red tape that comes ...

The Senate Energy Committee advanced a Jackson water bill that would create a separate utility authority and remove the city’s majority control of the authority's board. The bill also contains a ...

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 ...