Gainwell once played football for Yazoo County High School. This past NFL season, he helped the Philadelphia Eagles beat the ...

A revised grant application will be resubmitted for the Yazoo County Sheriff’s Department to potentially receive assistance ...

Officials with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) said a portion of a lower jaw of an American ...

Recently discovered bones of a basilosaurus in Mississippi offer insight into its life and what happened after its death.

Mississippi Today's editor-in-chief has won the state press association's top commentary award for his writing about Medicaid ...

In 2019, an unrelenting flood swamped more than half a million acres in the Mississippi Delta's Yazoo Backwater. It took more than six months to recede. Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd reports on a pumping ...

Well-preserved basilosaurus whale bones were discovered in Yazoo County, Mississippi, offering insights into the creature's life and death. The bones, estimated to be 35 million years old, show ...

This story was updated Tuesday afternoon to reflect Gov. Tate Reeves’ statement. Gov. Tate Reeves says will not block the ...

A view of the Jones home in the Yazoo Backwater area of Mississippi six years after it was destroyed in historic flooding. (Peter O'Dowd/Here & Now) It was a very different scene in 2019.

He finally made it home. Five years prior, the sandbag levee protecting his family home failed. When the rising floodwaters in Mississippi’s Yazoo Backwater seeped past the barrier, it marked the ...