After more than an hour of debate, the Senate passed Senate Bill 3095 mostly by party lines. Despite the idea of a tax cut being a sticking point for GOP leadership this year, some Republicans voted ...

An illness is spreading through the Mississippi Capitol: special session fever. Speculation is rampant that Gov. Tate Reeves will call a special session if the Senate does not acquiesce to his and the ...

House votes to make entire state wet, approves Sunday liquor sales; Senate passes kratom ban; PERS retirement changes advance ...

Four Republican senators voted against the final measure because it raised the gasoline tax, something they viewed as going ...

Senate Elections Chairman Jeremy England defends his early voting bill, for which his fellow Republican Gov. Tate Reeves ...

Governor Tate Reeves said that the Senate’s income tax reduction instead of full elimination was a “non-starter” for him.

Under SB 2849, companies that accept taxpayer economic incentives must uphold their employees’ right to a private ballot.

Bailey Martin, press secretary for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety (DPS), said the deputy was responding to a ...

The Senate Finance Committee voted Thursday to advance legislation to reduce the state income tax and the sales tax on ...

Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones said a deputy has died after being shot on Midway Road in Terry. He said the deputy, 37-year ...

Jones says the deputy’s father, Martin Shields, Sr., is a retired Jackson firefighter who is currently a reserve deputy with the department. “He comes from public service blood,” Jones said. “He was a ...

Martin Shields, Jr.-37 has been identified as the fallen HCSO deputy, tragically loss in the line of duty this evening. He’d been employed with the HCSO approx.9 months. His law enforcement career ...