Update: At the community forum held Tuesday night, the Concordia Parish School Board unanimously voted down the proposed changes from the US Dept of Justice which would merge schools and change attendance zones. The board also unanimously voted to enter into a cooperative endeavor with the Louisiana Attorney General's ...

Adams County supervisors have set aside leftover funds to determine later how to spend what county board president Kevin Wilson said could total as much as $700,000 or so. The funds are from $6 million the county received from the American Rescue Plan Act enacted in 2021. The U.S. Congress passed ARPA to help local go...

NATCHEZ, Miss. - City aldermen have hired the Gillon Christian Mosby accounting firm to do the annual audits of Natchez finances. The CPA group is replacing the Silas Simmons firm, which city officials have complained has been consistently late in finishing the annual audits required by law. With the Board of Aldermen ...

NATCHEZ, Miss. - Mayor Dan Gibson and aldermen have clarified legal explanations of when board members must excuse themselves from meetings when items come up that could financially benefit their relatives. Disputes and confusion have arisen at board meetings in recent months about whether Natchez aldermen Ben Davis a...

NATCHEZ, Miss. - Aldermen approved plans for building a city dog park for Natchez that's to be funded with private dollars at Duncan Park. The selected site is between the Carroll-Jones baseball field and the park's central pavilion. The Natchez-Adams County Community Alliance plans to fund the dog park's construction...

NATCHEZ, Miss. - City aldermen agree with Mayor Dan Gibson on what Natchez needs from state and federal lawmakers, but they're divided on who should lobby them on the city's behalf. The city's priorities approved Tuesday for 2025 include asking legislators to appropriate funds to replace the Canal Street bridge and h...

The Concordia Parish School Board is working toward the resolution of its longstanding desegregation case, which was originally filed on November 30, 1965. After nearly six decades, the School Board and the United States have developed a proposed consent order aimed at moving the case toward dismissal within the next t...

NATCHEZ, Miss. - City aldermen approved plans Tuesday for relighting the Natchez bridges crossing the Mississippi River to Vidalia, La. Bulbs will be ordered for giving the bridges the aesthetic illumination the Mississippi Legislature provided $500,000 to do in 2022. This is not enough money to fully adorn the bridges...

NATCHEZ, Miss. - The state Department of Transportation has approved the city's plans to build a new intersection on Seargent Prentiss Drive to accommodate a new shopping center being planned near Walmart on land city officials hope to sell to developers. Mayor Dan Gibson said Tuesday he received state transportation o...

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has unveiled plans to construct a $10 billion Artificial Intelligence (AI) data center in Richland Parish. This transformative project marks one of the state's largest-ever private capital investments. The facility will be built on the former Franklin Farms site, located between Ra...

NATCHEZ, Miss. - State public service regulators Tuesday heard from Adams County Supervisor Ricky Gray along with others from Natchez and around the state complaining about high water expenses and poor services provided by their utility company. "There needs to be an investigation," Gray told the Mississippi ...

NATCHEZ, Miss. - As the Adams County Board of Supervisors prepare to move the E911 operations center, Emergency Management Director Brad Bradford expressed concerns Monday that the building is not windstorm-proof. Bradford told the board that a structure is needed to ensure it can withstand tornado-like winds and conti...

NATCHEZ, Miss. - As the Christmas season begins, Adams County employees can look forward to getting $1,000 bonuses from the Board of Supervisors with money left from federal COVID funds that must be committed by the end of the month. With about $700,000 still left after giving the 220 or so county government employees...

The holiday season is a time for giving, and this year, Hoofbeats and PawPrints Rescue (HPR) is inviting the community to help make Christmas special for their furry residents. With over 1,800 pets rescued each year, HPR works tirelessly to provide care, love, and second chances to animals in need. This year, you can p...

NATCHEZ, Miss. - A bronze plaque will be placed in City Hall's front lobby to commemorate its rededication as Natchez marks 100 years since the building's construction. Natchez Mayor Dan Gibson on Tuesday presided over the rededication ceremony with others, including two former mayors, the son of a former mayor and the...