And the Mississippi legislature is joining in on taking action. However, that comes with its fair share of passionate debate.

The Mississippi ACLU has accused state lawmakers of not being transparent when it comes to new legislative redistricting maps ...

House Bill 1435 passed the GOP-majority chamber 67-46, with partisan crossover supporting and opposing the legislation. Four Democrats joined the Republican majority to support the proposal, while 10 ...

Hattiesburg could possibly get a new legislator once Mississippi lawmakers redraw district lines after a federal court ...

More than two years after Jimmie “Jay” Lee went missing, the remains of the University of Mississippi student and well-known member of Oxford’s LGBTQ+ community have been found. On Wednesday, ...

Lincoln Barnett defeated Tammi Bell in the general election for Arkansas House of Representatives District 63 on November ... its 2016 efforts on the state’s House of Representatives. Without the ...

Governor Tate Reeves has set an April 15 special election to determine who should serve the remainder of Jenifer Branning's ...

Catch up with the latest from the Mississippi legislative session with our weekly recap from the politics team.

A bill to close Parchman Farm failed in the Senate for the second time. Plus, updates on Medicaid and ballot initiative efforts in the Legislature ...

The state House of Representatives is slated to consider giving the public the right to seek ballot initiatives except on ...

Illinois House Republican leader and voters have asked the state Supreme Court to review whether the state's legislative map unfairly favors Democrats.