The Latest Breaking News from Jackson

JACKSON, Miss. — In mid-September, Howard Sanders bumped down pothole-ridden streets in a white Cadillac weighed down with water bottles on his way to a home in Ward 3, a neglected neighborhood that he called “a war zone.”

A boil-water advisory has been lifted for Mississippi's capital, and the state will stop handing out free bottled water on Saturday

But a state health department official said concerns remain about copper and lead levels in the city water. The official said people should continue to avoid using it to prepare baby formula.

A boil-water notice has been lifted in Mississippi’s capital city after nearly seven weeks

At times of crisis like the water outage in Jackson, Mississippi, schools have applied lessons from the pandemic to pivot to remote learning

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- Thousands of water bottles were loaded onto trucks in Miami Gardens on Monday, headed for Jackson, Miss., where many residents are without clean water.

An independent watchdog in the Environmental Protection Agency says it is investigating the troubled water system in Mississippi’s capital

BellRock Brands Inc. (OTCEM:DXBRF) (CSE:BRCK.U) entered into an agreement in principle for one of its U.S. subsidiaries to purchase JRMI27, LLC, a medical and adult use marijuana product manufacturer located in Jackson, Michigan, subject to approval by Michigan's Cannabis Regulatory Agency and applicable local agencies.

After the latest entertaining meeting between the Tigers and Tennessee State, the popular series now sits in limbo as the HBCUs explore other possibilities.

A boil water notice remains in majority-Black city and a long-term solution remains elusive

The notion of states as "laboratories of democracy" is generally credited to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.