Although Mississippi legislators have not yet moved to redistrict in light of Louisiana v. Callais, the state is facing multiple lawsuits over its current voting districts. Here is a breakdown.

The outcome spares officials the headache of changing their ballot rules just a few months before the 2026 midterm congressional elections.

The law set to take effect Wednesday is sparking alarm among immigrant advocates, who fear it could become a new tactic to target immigrants.

Officers who were involved in a 2024 fatal shooting investigated by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation were cleared, the Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said.

This marks the second time since last month the trial has been delayed.

Barbecue joint Jim ’N Nick’s now has twice as many stores as Baskin-Robbins does ice cream flavors.

“Redistricting is not easy, but our goal was always to adopt a lawful plan that fairly represented the people of this county,” Supervisor Lee Caldwell said.

The Senatobia Police Department has turned over the investigation of the police shooting death of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.

Amid outrage online, the DeSoto County Board of Supervisors approved rezoning plans for a new convenience store but denied separate plans for a new Love’s Travel Stop.

Alvin Myles Jr. was sentenced after a four-day trial.

Woodland Recovery Center unveiled its new Southaven facility in a ceremony Tuesday, June 16.

The lawsuit is turning into a much bigger fight over whether the federal government can shut down citizen enforcement of the Clean Air Act in the name of national security.

Over the past year, several headlines out of North Mississippi have centered on child endangerment, and members of the community have begun to wonder what is going on. 

The legal fight over SpaceX’s private power plant in Southaven, Mississippi, became a matter of national security on Monday, June 15. 

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SpaceX says Mississippi regulators approved turbines

In a motion to dismiss a lawsuit, attorneys for SpaceX argued that the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality had signed off on the natural gas turbines and that Mississippi’s air-quality regulations allowed the turbines.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has appointed a new Chancery Court Judge who will serve DeSoto County for now. 

Despite the ups and downs in LaQuita Hughes' life, the deaths, rejections and devastation, she’s given every day all she’s had. And that eventually landed her at her own pink, three-story Victorian-style home.

Former DeSoto Central standout Blaze Jordan is scheduled to join the St. Louis Cardinals Friday night in Minneapolis.

Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson has instructed staff to begin preparing to return to the 2022 maps after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a court order.

Hillwood Investment Properties has broken ground on a 1.15 million-square-foot building, the first speculative building in the area in three years, which is a positive signal for the local industrial market.

The Southern Environmental Law Center filed new documents in the NAACP’s lawsuit against SpaceX, claiming the company had added 24 more turbines. 

The Mississippi Department of Public Transportation has allocated $5.7 million for the beginning phase of improvements to the Commerce Street interstate exit in Hernando.

The proposed nearly-600 acre “DeSoto Innovation District” caused an uproar on social media in recent days after project documents showed a data center as a conditional use.

A class action lawsuit alleges that the noise from SpaceX’s natural gas plant has eroded quality of life, and that the company hasn’t taken steps to mitigate the noise.

After recent news related to some charged with child sex crimes in DeSoto County, some have wondered the extent of the problem in the area. Here is what the data says.