Your elected officials will be in Jackson a little longer than first planned. They still haven’t agreed on a budget. And there are controversial bills left to handle, like House Bill 1020.
Nursing homes across the state will soon be able to tap into extra funds geared toward providing relief. $100 million will directly come from the American Rescue Plan that state lawmakers and the Governor recently approved.
Three months of work on legislation that will impact you is starting to wrap up. This is expected to be the final week of the session. But most of the major issues are still unresolved.
Alabama’s 2023 legislative session is underway. A bill working its way through the legislature could allow you to claim an unborn child on your tax return.
A group of educators calling themselves the Public School Caucus is reminding state lawmakers of the importance of fully funding education in Mississippi.
The bill slashes the amount of “good time” inmates can receive and says inmates who commit certain crimes while in prison would forfeit all of their accrued time.
You’ll cast your ballot this year for statewide elections. But the early polls are jumping past the primaries. And they’re going straight to the anticipated general election match-up for governor between Tate Reeves and Brandon Presley.
The Labor Department rule ended a Trump-era ban on managers of retirement plans considering factors such as climate change or pending lawsuits when making investment choices.
Alabama’s Attorney General is speaking out about a pre-filed bill in the Alabama Legislature that would dramatically change the punishment involving fentanyl.
The Magnolia Tribune teamed up with Mason-Dixon to look at where incumbent Republican Gov. Tate Reeves and Democratic challenger Brandon Presley are right now.
The Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority voted to increase the authorized spending on the project from about $623 million to $975 million.
The man selected to be over Mississippi’s public education system was questioned for more than an hour by a Senate education subcommittee Wednesday. They’ll get the final say on confirming him.
“One is a bad idea, and I can’t see myself supporting it. One is a good idea that just includes some correctable mistakes,” the Republican governor said in a statement.
Gov. Ivey urging lawmakers to make kindergarten mandatory in our state. It’s a move Richard Franklin with the American Federation of Teachers agrees with, saying for years kindergarten is a crucial part of a child's education.
The state has to decide how to spend $1.1 billion it has left from the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act. Governor Ivey thinks lawmakers should give it back to you, with a one time payment of hundreds of dollars.
Russ Goodman, who took office in January, knows violent crime has sharply spiraled upwards, with many of those offenses committed by young adults and older teens.
The Supporting Families of the Fallen Act provides an increase of $100,000 to the maximum amount of a policy under the Veterans’ Group Life Insurance (VGLI) and Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance (SGLI)