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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…
JACKSON • Mississippi college athletes could sign agents and ink endorsement deals under a pair of bills advancing through the Legislature.
JACKSON • Legislation that would require Gov. Tate Reeves and future governors to publicly show who paid for their inauguration festivities ea…
JACKSON • Mississippians who skip a few elections and fail to respond to a postcard confirming their address could find their names purged fro…
JACKSON • Law enforcement traffic ticket quotas would be illegal in Mississippi under a bill authored by a Northeast Mississippi legislature t…
JACKSON • Rural Mississippians with slow or nonexistent internet connections could get relief under two bills moving through the Legislature.
TUPELO • Multiple bills in the state Senate take aim at the state transportation department’s $80 million cut of lottery money, including one …
JACKSON • Mississippi legislators are making decisions that could affect people’s wallets and change some of their leisure activities.
JACKSON • Mississippi lawmakers advanced legislation this week that would make it easier to find out who is donating campaign money to your ma…
JACKSON • Lawmakers halted legislation to partially privatize and overhaul Mississippi’s state parks system this year, but one Northeast Missi…
The House wants to strip or lessen oversight and regulations for nurse practitioners, optometrists, massage therapists, wigologists and others…
