The center was approved by the Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees in February and will cost about $700,000 a year. It was conceived to study the “heightened risks” for college students ...

The year 1813 was a pivotal time in the history of the Tombigbee River Valley. The ongoing War of 1812 with England was raging in the east and northeast but was little felt in the Mississippi ...

New Hope announced on Friday that a familiar face from the Golden Triangle has made its way onto the staff of the Trojans’ football team – former Starkville Academy head coach Chase Nicholson. After ...

The city is still in the running for a $20 million grant that would build an $8 million multipurpose facility on part of the old Kerr-McGee Superfund site and improve more than 400 homes in the ...

Starkville aldermen on Tuesday joined Oktibbeha County in approving a tax incentive agreement for Project Jacket, the more than $200 million industrial development eyeing expansion in the county. The ...

The Confederate Monument that has sat outside Lowndes County Courthouse for more than a century is moving to Friendship Cemetery. Lowndes County supervisors voted unanimously Monday to relocate the ...

Columbus police are seeking suspects in a reported residential burglary and assault. A police department press release said officers responded at about 7:30 p.m. Monday to the residence at 1424 Third ...

Third-graders in Lowndes County School District scored higher than the state average on the first round of the state reading assessment, while Columbus Municipal and Starkville-Oktibbeha school ...

JACKSON — The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is awarding nearly $3 million for preservation and restoration projects. The Community Heritage Preservation Grant program is funded by ...

Harry Sanders drives down Military Road late Friday morning on the route he takes into Columbus most days from his home near Caledonia. From the driver’s seat of his red pickup, he starts pointing out ...

Ace Hardware in Starkville is officially closing down. Chad Porter of the Louisville store confirmed the Starkville location will close by the end of June or possibly earlier than that, depending on ...

JACKSON — A former state lawmaker is the newest member of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Board of Trustees. Trustees met Friday and elected Kimberly L. Campbell of Jackson to ...