The Mississippi Sound Coalition has drafted a 33-page piece of legislation to overhaul management of the Mississippi River basin, and it’s now asking the state’s representation in Congress to take up the bill.

A dead zone, or as scientists prefer, a hypoxic zone, is an area in estuaries and coastal waters around the mouth of larger rivers entering the sea where the oxygen content is too low to support most forms of marine life. Seminal research conducted by two ...

Six people died in the downtown area of the small town of Leland to the state's west, and a pregnant woman was among the dead in a shooting on the east side of the state, officials said.