Mississippi

College students in Mississippi are anxious about what may happen to the cost of higher education after the legislature passes next year's budget. MPB's Carl Gibson reports.

Four years after Hurricane Katrina the Gulf Coast is deep in the middle of an affordable housing crisis. MPB’s Phoebe Judge reports on the latest housing summit that’s attempting to tackle the problem.

Mississippi's new k-12 school accountability ratings won't be released to the public until midnight Sunday. But as MPB's Lawayne Childrey reports, State School Board members are already weighing in on the results.

At The State College Board meeting Thursday, concerns over Governor Haley Barbour's proposed university consolidation sparked some heated dialogue. MPB's Carl Gibson reports.

In all the history books about World War Two, there is one story that seldom is told. It’s about a small Mississippi farming community that transformed a into a munitions plant to help win the war. As MPB’s Ron Brown reports, they did it with a workforce of mostly young women.