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TUPELO • A Senate committee chairman has blocked further consideration of legislation to clarify an ambiguous residency requirement even as li…
JACKSON • Fixing Mississippi’s broken state parks system was a top priority for legislative leaders this year, but various proposals to secure…
TUPELO • Legislation that would automatically purge Mississippi voter rolls based on certain criteria died in the state House of Representativ…
TUPELO • As Mississippi continues its efforts to vaccinate residents across the state, the Mississippi Department of Health announced that it …
JACKSON • Lawmakers killed legislation Tuesday that would have provided transparency around how Gov. Tate Reeves and future Mississippi govern…
JACKSON • Mississippi voters overwhelmingly approved a medical marijuana program in November, but state lawmakers continued to tinker with the…
JACKSON • A year after Mississippi teachers were denied a pay raise due to COVID-19 budget woes, similar legislation to provide them more mone…
TUPELO • An influential conservative think tank has deemed a proposed overhaul of Mississippi’s tax structure as “momentous” but urges caution…
TUPELO • Mississippi could soon be one step closer to resolving its half-decade-long litigation with the U.S. Justice Department over the stat…
JACKSON • Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann on Monday suggested a sweeping income tax elimination bill authored by House leaders faces long odds in th…
JACKSON • Forty-six Mississippi historians have signed a letter urging state lawmakers to reject a proposal that would let politicians choose …
JACKSON • As late as Tuesday morning, only hours before a 2 p.m. gavel time in the House of Representatives and a vote on a lengthy bill to el…
JACKSON • Electric car owners would find more places to plug in around Mississippi over the next three years if legislation that passed the Ho…
JACKSON • Michael Callahan went to bed early Monday night – so early that the CEO of Mississippi’s electrical cooperatives trade organization …
JACKSON • A sweeping bill that would eliminate Mississippi’s personal income tax and shift the state’s tax burden onto sales tax within about …
JACKSON • A bill that would eventually eliminate the state’s personal income tax while adjusting state sales taxes could receive a vote in the…
JACKSON • Attorneys representing the U.S. Department of Justice and the state of Mississippi on Monday afternoon announced they are close to a…
TUPELO • The attorney general’s office provided inaccurate information to hundreds of municipal elections officials about a request to interpr…
JACKSON • While Mississippi voters overwhelmingly endorsed a specific medical marijuana legalization plan in November, the state might ultimat…
AUSTIN, Texas • Anger over Texas’ power grid failing in the face of a record winter freeze continued to mount Wednesday as millions of residen…
JACKSON • The Legislature is considering an overhaul of how the nine-member board of trustees for the Mississippi Department of Archives and H…
The Mississippi State Department of Health confirmed the first case of a COVID-19 variant strain in Mississippi resident on Monday.
TUPELO • A Lee County legislator and north Mississippi’s highway commissioner are exploring the possibility of allowing truckers to park and s…
JACKSON • Legislation that would create a new medical marijuana program in Mississippi if the voter-approved Initiative 65 is overturned in co…
JACKSON • Bills to allow home delivery of alcohol, to set stronger penalties for stealing pecans and to set new rules for removing people from…
