MPB News

All MPB News stories will be posted to @MPBOnline on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn starting March 1, 2025. You can still visit MPBOnline.org/news or the MPB Public Media App to read full reports at any time.

Each year, the small unincorporated community of Knobtown, Mississippi—home to fewer than 400 residents—welcomes thousands of visitors for its annual Black History Parade. Now in its 29th year, the parade has grown... Read the full story: mpbonline.org/blogs/news/com…

State lawmakers and members of the public gathered in the crowded capitol rotunda in Jackson Tuesday to commemorate the creation of the bipartisan Mississippi-Israel Legislative Caucus. Read the full story on MPB News: mpbonline.org/blogs/news/sta…

The Mississippi Senate passed a $326 million tax cut bill on Monday, setting up negotiations with the House over whether it’s better to tweak or totally transform the state’s tax code. Read about Senate Bill 3095 on MPB News: mpbonline.org/blogs/news/mis…

The BOEM finalized a rule to help ensure old wells are cleaned up. The rule also protects taxpayers from shouldering the cost, but a few Gulf States sued the office saying stricter criteria for cleanup would crush independent oil companies. Read more: mpbonline.org/blogs/news/a-n…

In gas stations and vape shops across Mississippi you can find dozens of hemp-based products that promise a “legal high” by mimicking the psychoactive effects of cannabis. Read the full story from MPB News: mpbonline.org/blogs/news/sen…

If you ask Wyatt Emmerich, owner of the Clarksdale Press Register, the city's lawsuit against his paper is the result of a contentious relationship that started more than four years ago. Read the full story at MPB News: mpbonline.org/blogs/news/in-…

It’s just before Christmas, and customers intermittently stream inside Vaporio, an alternative store that sells herbal remedies and vape supplies in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. They’re greeted by the Malosh family. Read the full story: mpbonline.org/blogs/news/ins…

Video from the Senate chamber showed Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann standing at a podium at the front of the chamber when he leaned forward and then fell to the floor. Read the full story: mpbonline.org/blogs/news/mis…

Hobbs was a formerly enslaved woman who died in 1856 and was buried at the Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson. The cemetery is famous for being the final resting place for past governors, authors and soldiers. Read the full story here: mpbonline.org/blogs/news/a-m…

Since his appointment to the U.S. Senate in 2007, the war in Ukraine has been by far the most serious geopolitical crisis Mississippi Republican Roger Wicker has had to navigate. Read the full story from MPB News at mpbonline.org/blogs/news/i-w…

In an extension of tariffs imposed during his first administration, President Trump lifted all exceptions and increased the duty on aluminum imports to 25% for all countries. Read the full story from MPB News at mpbonline.org/blogs/news/mis…

Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s Human Trafficking Task Force and Fentanyl Strike Force recently completed a four-day joint operation on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. Read the full story at mpbonline.org/blogs/news/ope…

Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s Human Trafficking Task Force and Fentanyl Strike Force recently completed a four-day joint operation on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. Read the full story at mpbonline.org/blogs/news/ope…

The highly-contagious Bird Flu virus has rocked poultry facilities in many states, and resulting supply shortages of eggs and other products have driven up prices to near-record levels. Read the full story from MPB News at mpbonline.org/blogs/news/fut…

“I believe that there is a bunch of chaos and confusion that is being talked about to throw us off our mission.” said Angela English, President of the Rankin County chapter of the NAACP... Read the full story at mpbonline.org/blogs/news/des…

Senate Bill 2847 would have removed the auditor’s office's ability to investigate nonprofits handling less than $10 million in government money and sue people for nonpayment of demands issued by the auditor. Read the full story: mpbonline.org/blogs/news/sta…

The Mississippi House’s Education Committee has advanced a bill that would allow state education funding to flow to private schools. Read the full story on MPB News. bit.ly/42MAo0M

While Susie Balfour was incarcerated at the Central MS Correctional Facility, she & others worked on the cleaning crews. That work involved mixing the raw form of cleaning chemicals, many of which are known to be carcinogenic. Full story on MPB News. bit.ly/3WIAMJx

The Dixie National Livestock Show and Rodeo is considered the largest rodeo east of the Mississippi River. At least 900 cowboys and cowgirls will be competing this year, according to Visit Jackson. Read the full story on MPB News. bit.ly/3Q02wG2