Mississippi

After just 19 minutes of discussion, the board of trustees of the Institutions of Higher Learning approved a motion Friday not to require the COVID-19 vaccine for students and employees at Mississippi’s eight public universities.

A panel of lawmakers today and Thursday are holding hearings on how, why, or if Mississippi's individual income tax should be eliminated or cut and whether other taxes should be raised.

The 2021 Public Waters Alligator Hunting Season opens in Mississippi Friday at noon. The 10-day season will close at noon on Sept. 6.  

Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi in Oxford is one of the 61 hospitals receiving staffing assistance.

By Adam Ganucheau Mississippi Today Dr. LouAnn Woodward, the chief executive of Mississippi’s largest medical center, is no longer mincing words about so many Mississippians’ unwillingness...

By Will Stribling Mississippi Today The University of Mississippi Medical Center will open a second field hospital in one of its parking garages, another attempt at...

Baptist Memorial Health Care will require all employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine by Nov. 1, 2021.

Mississippi's State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs says he feels like an air traffic controller who’s watching two planes crash together each day and he can’t do anything to avoid it.

The lead Senate and House negotiators working on a Mississippi medical marijuana program to replace the one shot down by the state Supreme Court say they're close to having a draft that could prompt a special legislative session, as early as this month.

Oxford and Lafayette County School Districts will have students back in the classroom this week, and teachers are already on campus.