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For Shrinking Mississippi River Towns, Frequent Floods Worsen Fortunes
Insurance Journal· 13 hours agoDevastating flooding, driven in part by climate change, is taking an especially damaging toll on...
Medical cannabis changes coming next month in Mississippi
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 20 hours agoPatients will be able to get a month’s supply in one trip come July 1, and the research program at Ole Miss looks to provide better treatment options. A change to the way Mississippi ...
How the United States Laid Claim to the Mississippi River, One Mile at a Time
Smithsonian Magazine· 18 hours agoOn October 27, 1815, Prospect Robbins arrived by boat at the point in the alluvial swamps where the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers meet. Both surveyors were veterans—Brown ...
This Map Details the Cheapest and Most Expensive States for Fast Food
Food & Wine via Yahoo News· 4 days ago.'> Food & Wine / Chick-fil-A / Domino's Pizza / Taco Bell...to some new data, there may still be a...
How a Spanish land grant from the 1700s is affecting present-day Mississippi
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThat fight detailed disagreements over the tidelands map boundary, which stretches along the ...
Izaak Walton League, USFWS celebrate 100 years of Upper Mississippi Fish and Wildlife Refuge
Quad-City Times· 7 days agoIn the 1920s, Will Dilg learned of a plan to drain the backwaters of the Mississippi River near...
AMBER Alert Canceled: Arkansas 3-year-old boy found
Newsweek· 12 hours agoThe Texarkana Police Department canceled the AMBER Alert for 3-year-old Kaiden Barnes after the boy was found at 11:30 a.m. Friday. It is believed that...
Louisiana Congressman Garret Graves won't run for reelection
Gannett via AOL· 8 hours agoGraves lashed out at Landry and the Legislature when the new map was passed, calling their action boneheaded. He reiterated Friday that his departure will cost the state influence ...
Mississippi River Flooding is Pushing People Out of Their Homes, Data Shows
Insurance Journal· 3 days agoCommerce along the Mississippi River has evolved over the past century at the expense of many...
Going to the Mississippi coast? Here’s the new beach monitoring website
WJTV Jackson· 3 days agoJACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – As summer officially kicks off on June 20, leaders with the Mississippi...