The Senate plan creates one new majority-Black district each in DeSoto County and the Hattiesburg area, with no incumbent ...

New Mississippi Legislative Maps Head to ... over the objections of some Democrats and DeSoto County lawmakers. The map creates a majority-Black House district in Chickasaw County and creates ...

The Senate on Wednesday passed a plan to redraw its districts, per a federal court order. If approved by a federal judge, it will cause 10 special elections.

Violent tornadoes ripped through parts of the U.S., wiping out schools and toppling semitractor-trailers in several states.

Dr. Craig Ceecee, a meteorologist in Mississippi, created a website that shows where community storm shelters are located. Find Your Tornado Shelter, and it plots all the known community storm ...

The NAACP on Monday filed a motion to schedule briefings to challenge portions of the Legislature's Senate and House redistricting plan.

Severe weather threatens the mid-Mississippi Valley and Southeast this weekend, with possible hail, and isolated tornadoes. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

You can hover over the map below to see ... highly among the big counties with negative net domestic migration rates per 1,000 people. The top three were all in Mississippi. A few other places ...

Homes were reported flooded in Lee County, Mississippi, and some roads are reported ... and into western Alabama as circled on the map below. Flooding will become a bigger threat into this evening ...