The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) has selected 10 semifinalists to serve as the SBE junior student representative in the 2023-24 school year. The SBE student representative program includes one high school junior and one high school senior who serve as...
Featuring many Southern Miss faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends, FestivalSouth® brings more than 50 live art, music, theatre, and dance events to the Hattiesburg area May 30 through June 24, 2023. Grouped around the four weekends, events are planned each...
‘Leaving for greener pastures’: Mississippi’s nurse vacancy rates are their highest in at least a decade by Devna Bose, Mississippi Today Amid continued risk of closures, Mississippi hospitals are increasingly missing one critical piece of their staff: Nurses. Many of...
By Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today For 56 days of the 90-day 2023 session of the Mississippi Legislature and before then in the pre-session budgeting work, no one was speaking publicly or seriously about the possibility of fully funding public education. But in a...
This year, 1,257 4-H and FFA members across Mississippi participated in the Dixie National Junior Round-Up Livestock Shows, showing 2,153 head of livestock. These students competed for the opportunity to participate in the 54th annual Sale of Junior Champions. The...
Spring and for some, a weeklong break from school, are on the horizon. Instead of jumping ship to other states, why not stay in Mississippi, a state filled with interesting places to explore and enjoy? Here are a few of my favorite Mississippi attractions and places...
