The Mississippi Department of Transportation announced the closure of Highway 43 over the Ross Barnett Reservoir for three months starting July 28 due to necessary repairs, affecting local businesses.

Volunteer firefighters in Mississippi are overcoming obstacles to provide essential emergency services, despite limited resources.

People with MS visited doctors, were hospitalized, and used emergency care more than other people decades before their ...

A fire at a Mississippi Gulf Coast oil refinery injured four workers on Monday. According to company officials, the fire ...

The U.S. Department of Energy has authorized an emergency exchange from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) with ExxonMobil ...

On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent. That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the ...

A Wilkinson County jury deliberated for a mere 36 minutes before finding Jaccory Carr guilty of aggravated assault on a law ...

The homeland security secretary said a report that thousands of calls to a disaster hotline went unanswered because of ...

Several Adams County supervisors reacted with surprise and disappointment on Monday to grief Robert Bradford, emergency ...

Jackson Public Schools leaders cited incidents in recent years of students using cellphones to bully others, organize fights ...

A week after a train derailment left a black smoke of a poisonous chemical drifting above a Mississippi town, residents are ...

Officials with the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) announced the Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) in Grenada ...