By Frank Corder, Magnolia Tribune Two Mississippi Senate seats will be filled on December 2 in special runoff elections. Senate District 24 and Senate District 26 featured fields with multiple candidates running for the vacated seats in the November 4...
A Mississippi State University faculty member has made a celestial discovery in Starkville: the first asteroid identified from the state of Mississippi. Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Jean-Francois Gout, an amateur astronomer in his spare time,...
By: Frank Corder, Magnolia Tribune Ingalls Shipbuilding announced Friday that the Pascagoula shipyard has successfully completed the final round of sea trials for the new Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer Ted Stevens (DDG 128). The ship is...
By: Frank Corder, Magnolia Tribune Alcorn State University’s marching band, The Sounds of Dyn-O-Mite, is slated to perform in the 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade next week, representing the state of Mississippi. This will mark the first Macy’s...
By: Jeremy Pittari, Magnolia Tribune Congress made changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, earlier this year and lawmakers in Mississippi are expressing varying opinions on the federal welfare program. The changes, signed into...
by Tyler Teresa, Regional Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration Small Business Saturday was founded by American Express in 2010 and has been officially cosponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) since 2011. It is an important...
By: Roscoe Barnes III, Ph.D., Visit Natchez Officials of the Natchez-Adams County School District unveiled a historical marker Thursday, November 20, that pays tribute to Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932), who funded five Black schools in Adams County...
The Mississippi Association of Colleges and Universities (MAC) and the Mississippi Economic Council (MEC) have awarded Jim McHale, President and CEO of the Woodward Hines Education Foundation (WHEF), the inaugural Champion Award for Ascent to Educational...
The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) voted today to approve new A-F performance level cuts for the Mississippi Statewide Accountability System. The new thresholds for grades will be used to assign grades to schools and districts for the 2025-26 school...
By: Kelley Williams, Chair Bigger Pie Forum Backwater flooding happens when the Mississippi River is higher (about 43’ at Vicksburg) than the Yazoo River and blocks its discharge. It takes less rain to raise and keep the Mississippi above 43’ than it...
At last check, there have been 60 fire deaths statewide in 2025. Cooking or the misuse of cooking equipment led to four of those deaths. “Many people have family and friends over for the holiday. Don’t let distractions put you and your guests in danger. Make...
By Bob Garver It was all the way back in 2013 that audiences were first introduced to the Four Horsemen of Magic – J. Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson), Jack Wilder (Dave Franco), and Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher). The...
By: Daniel Tyson, Magnolia Tribune Amazon Web Services (AWS) is building its second data center in Mississippi, Governor Tate Reeves (R) announced Tuesday in Vicksburg to a cheering crowd. Construction on the $3 billion data center complex is slated to...
Though the technology is still in its early days, unmanned aircraft systems with spray capabilities offer promising solutions to some of today’s greatest agricultural production challenges. A video series created by Mississippi State’s Agricultural Autonomy...
Recently, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 4071, the Combatting International Drug Trafficking and Human Smuggling Partnership Act of 2025. U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Air and Marine Operations agents play a critical role in the homeland security...
The Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) is proud to celebrate the vital contributions of healthcare providers, professionals and community workers on National Rural Health Day (NRHD), which falls on November 20 this year. MSDH created the Mississippi Center...
By: Daniel Tyson, Magnolia Tribune State senators heard from advocates Tuesday morning on why Jackson is seeing an increase in homeless people and heard how the Legislature can assist in combating the capital city’s growing homelessness problem. Jackson...
The Randy J. Cleveland Engineering Student Center, a state-of-the-art facility and new central hub for Bagley College of Engineering students at Mississippi State, was formally dedicated today [Nov. 18] thanks to a generous gift from Randy Cleveland, a 1983 magna cum...
By Frank Corder, Magnolia Tribune Lawmakers created a new tier in the Mississippi Public Employees Retirement System, or PERS, during the 2025 legislative session in an effort to gradually reduce its $26 billion unfunded liabilities and improve the...
By: Daniel Tyson, Magnolia Tribune As a part of Toyota’s recent commitment to invest up to $10 billion in the U.S. over the next five years, the company announced Tuesday a $912 million investment and 252 new jobs across five manufacturing plants to...
