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A new law will require the Mississippi Department of Education to set a computer science curriculum for K-12 schools by the 2024-25 academic year.

The House then revived the tax cut plan by putting it into another bill.

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Mississippi would join a majority of states in allowing home delivery of alcohol, if Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signs a bill that legislators are sending him. The House and Senate agreed Sunday on the final version of House Bill 1135. It would allow home delivery of beer, wine or hard liquor. Delivery […]

A bill to make big changes to Mississippi’s tax structure is dying in the state Senate.

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Mississippi’s top health official said the delta coronavirus variant is “sweeping across Mississippi like a tsunami” as the state reported more than 3,000 new cases of the highly transmittable virus in a single day Thursday. “If we look at our trajectory, we see that it’s continuing to increase without any real […]

Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves is set to sign a bill to ban transgender athletes from competing on girls or women’s sports teams.

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Leaders with the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) held a news conference on Wednesday, July 28 to provide an update on COVID-19 in the state. This comes as cases are rapidly increasing in Mississippi due to the Delta variant. Due to a strain at hospitals, the new measures taking effect […]

Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a bill banning transgender athletes from competing on girls or women’s sports teams. He signed the bill Thursday.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s top public health official is urging people to continue wearing masks in public to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has lifted a mask mandate and Mississippi has seen a decrease in COVID-19 hospitalizations, but state health officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs said Monday that the pandemic […]

The Mississippi Senate is pushing forward with a plan to increase some of the lowest teacher salaries in the United States.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Four words on Mississippi’s license plates have sparked a federal lawsuit. American Atheists, the Mississippi Humanist Association and three nonreligious state residents filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the state over its “In God We Trust” license plate. The complaint accuses the Mississippi Commissioner of Revenue of violating the people’s freedom of […]