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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is speaking out against the new federal vaccination mandates President Joe Biden issued Thursday. During his address to the nation, Biden announced that all employers with 100 or more employees must either mandate vaccines or test weekly. Biden also said businesses with more than 100 employees will be […]

President Joe Biden and federal agencies are promising aid is on the way after Hurricane Ida slammed into Louisiana over the weekend.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — For at least the third time in a dozen years, portable toilets are parked outside the ornate Mississippi Capitol because Jackson’s water system is in crisis. The big “Gotta Go” trailer is just one example of the city’s desperation. Many homes, businesses and government offices have had little or no running […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The mayor of Mississippi’s capital was 5 years old when his parents moved their family from New York to Jackson in 1988 so that his father, who had been involved in a Black nationalist movement in the 1970s, could return to the unfinished business of challenging inequity and fighting racial injustice. […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi legislators have finished their busiest session in years after enacting the largest teacher pay raise in a generation and setting the state’s largest-ever income tax cut. “Clearly, by any stretch, the Mississippi Legislature performed this year,” Republican Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann said Tuesday. After more than a year of economic […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Carey Wooten spent nearly seven weeks hunting for safe drinking water for herself, her two children and three dogs after clocking out each day as a Taco Bell manager, so Gov. Tate Reeves’ announcement that the water is clean again in Mississippi’s capital came as welcome news. But the crisis in […]

SOUTHAVEN, Miss. — COVID cases are spiking in Mississippi and Wednesday, the state’s top health officials suggested students may need to wear masks when school resumes next month. But most of the state’s school districts, including DeSoto County Schools, have made masks optional.  The district doesn’t appear to have any plans to revise its mask […]

Some Mississippi lawmakers say they want Gov. Tate Reeves to call them back to the Capitol for a special session to revive the state’s initiative process.

Leaders in north Mississippi say they will ask Gov. Tate Reeves and lawmakers for help improving the safety along state Highway 7 that runs through their communities.

A Mississippi Highway Patrol trooper killed while conducting a traffic stop on Highway 16 was identified Saturday by his employer.

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Governor Tate Reeves announced the end of the COVID-19 State of Emergency in Mississippi will be on August 15, 2021, at 11:59 p.m. He also announced the timeline for withdrawal of National Guard troops has been finalized for July 15, 2021. “I want to thank all Mississippians for their sacrifices over […]