Jackson police chief said the department's crime data, including a 51% drop in homicides, competes with any large U.S. metropolitan police agency.

Throughout a fittingly stormy Thursday in Jackson, dozens of residents and public officials again lined up in front of the ...

A loophole in Mississippi’s tax sale system lets investors who own blighted properties skirt responsibility for cleanup. The ...

Jackson residents voiced their opposition or support on two flood-control proposals during public meetings held by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Robert Major Walker made history in 1988 when he was elected as the first Black mayor of Vicksburg, a Mississippi River town ...

Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore has been accused of brushing aside locals’ concerns about violent and anti-social public housing tenants being moved in next to vulnerable residents, with one elderly ...

A resident in a South Jackson neighborhood said years of neglect have left the area unsafe. “All these properties here, and they won’t do anything about it. But they’ll go out there and tear these ...