They cite opposition to ‘welfare’ and administrative costs in declining to participate in Summer EBT.

In Arizona, the state’s highest court upheld a Civil War-era abortion ban. Florida and South Carolina moved to restrict abortion to six weeks — before many people know they are pregnant.

Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves took $98,000 from Mississippi Power and executives of its parent company.

Gov. Tate Reeves’ top campaign contributors netted $1.4 billion in state contracts or grants from agencies the governor oversees, a Mississippi Today investigation found. Of the 88 individual or corporate donors who have given Reeves’ campaigns at least $50,000, Mississippi Today identified 15 donors whose companies received a total of $1.4 billion in state contracts […]

It might not surprise Mississippians that The Cook Political Report, regarded as one of the nation’s preeminent elections experts, shifted their 2023 Mississippi governor’s race forecast on Monday in Democrat Brandon Presley’s direction.

The Mississippi Development Authority provided incentives to businesses that promised new jobs in the state.

The Mississippi governor’s plan would give hundreds of millions of dollars to hospitals, but would not expand Medicaid for low-income families.

William Adam Hopper was appointed district attorney despite his involvement in efforts to keep wrongly convicted inmate Curtis Flowers in prison.

‘We're seeing no clarification on how these exceptions can be applied,’ says Greta Kemp Martin, the Democratic candidate for Mississippi attorney general.

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Mississippi is one of just three states to tax groceries at the full sales tax rate, which disproportionately hurts low-income residents.

The city has issued multiple boil water notices over the past year.

Jackson, Mississippi, a city of 150,000, is in the sixth week of a boil-water advisory from the state health department because of concerns that low pressure could allow contaminants into the water.

An overview of six of the 12 states with strict abortion bans after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision shows the drastic effects anti-abortion policies can have.

Lies pedaled by anti-abortion advocates are being proven wrong by the horrifying effects new laws are having on people across the country.

Congress designated 988 as the universal number for the mental health crisis hotline system in 2020 after nationwide protests against cases of police brutality.

Why would Republican lawmakers take issue with a bill that would help protect pregnant people in the workplace?

‘We have been preparing for the day Roe falls and we are ready,’ said Yamelsie Rodriguez, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri.

Since the Supreme Court agreed to consider Mississippi’s ban, multiple states have passed previability bans.

Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn claimed he hadn’t seen the data that shows Medicaid expansion saves lives.

Despite the department’s decision to close its investigation of Emmett Till’s slaying, agents are still probing as many as 20 other civil rights cold cases.

It looks like the network’s anti-vaccine rhetoric isn’t working on voters, according to its own polling unit.  

Abortion bans aren’t helping the state’s ‘alarming infant and maternal mortality rates.’

Several organizations have filed a federal lawsuit demanding an alternative to the state’s standard license plate which features the motto, ‘In God We Trust.’

Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-MS) spent more than $61,000 on payments to a Mississippi-based law firm.

People are turning increasingly to self-managed medication abortions.

GOP lawmakers openly acknowledge that they are looking to upend the precedent set by Roe v. Wade.

The new Texas law prohibits state officials from being the ones to enforce the ban on abortion.

In 2020, Mississippi residents voted to replace the Confederate design on their state flag.

Experts disagree on whether a COVID-19 surge is looming — but agree that opening indoor dining at 100% capacity is a danger to employees and patrons either way.