Senate stance likely to delay or kill efforts to provide health coverage to about 200,000 people, as the federal government has refused to approve such work requirements for Medicaid expansion.
'We are hopeful a compromise is on the horizon. When people are healthy, they are working, raising their families, and contributing to their communities.' -- Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann
National studies and experts in Medicaid expansion states refute concerns voiced in Mississippi’s legislative conference committee that costs to the state would exceed projections.
Mar-Jack poultry plant in Hattiesburg and its staff agency cited by national for being unsafe and reckless employers.
The Livingston award recognizes the best reporting by young journalists.
On this day in 1964, civil rights activists started the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to challenge Mississippi’s all-white regular delegation to the Democratic National Convention.
The House and Senate have been at loggerheads much of this legislative session over the school funding formula and government pension system.
Medicaid Chairman Kevin Blackwell says Senate is 'working on a compromise' on expansion.
Sports teams are forming in Mississippi's prison system, but some lawmakers question a boxing program.
Strapped with a bill from his childhood injury, Sen. Chad McMahan's family struggled with the medical debt. He wants to help other Mississippi families avoid such struggles.