Mississippi voters return to the polls on Tuesday to decide three Republican primaries in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th congressional districts. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday. Any voter...

If Mississippi’s political leaders had stuck to their plan, the state would now have a trust fund of more than $4 billion earning about $320 million annually to spend on health care, based on...

The individual income tax, which House Speaker Philip Gunn, Gov. Tate Reeves and others want to eliminate in Mississippi, is the largest source of revenue in 33 states. Mississippi is among 14 states where sales...

Mississippi’s medical marijuana license portal is shy of a week old but more than 1,800 people have already registered for online accounts to apply for licenses, the state Department of Health announced Monday.  “If you...

Michael Cassidy, a Republican seeking to unseat incumbent Rep. Michael Guest in Mississippi’s 3rd Congressional District in the June 7 primary, has aligned himself with one of the nation’s most outspoken advocates of overthrowing the...

Private child care providers across Mississippi are scrambling to spend around $150 million, the remainder of their federal stabilization funds, in the next four months. The centers, which were hit hard by the pandemic as...

A federal lawsuit alleging Mississippi law made it more difficult for naturalized citizens to vote than in any state in the country has been dismissed by a federal judge. But the 2019 lawsuit was not...

All three of the citizen-sponsored ballot initiatives that have been ratified by Mississippi voters have since been approved by state lawmakers, ensuring the laws cannot be struck down as a result of a landmark...

Mississippi’s population is larger and most likely more diverse than what was reported last year in the official 2020 U.S. Census. Reports that the state lost population during the past decade were incorrect based on...