Yazoo City voters will return to the polls on Feb. 23 for the Democratic primary runoff election for the Ward 1 alderman post ...

Yazoo City police officers arrested an escaped convict from Louisiana last week after receiving a tip from a resident that he was acting suspicious.

Yazoo County is now among the growing list of deaths related to Winter Storm Fern. As of press time, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency announced that at least 25 people in the state have ...

He said it was more of an “epic disaster.” “This was an epic disaster,” Willingham said, during Monday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. “This is something that has never happened here before.” The ...

In DeSoto County, some community members and the school board want Michele Henley, the board’s former president, to resign.

U.S. Senator Roger Wicker told Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in a letter that the existing medical and human ...

The effort of Mississippi House leaders and others to expand programs providing public funds to private schools validates the ...

JPD has considered the precinct a crime “hotspot” for years now. Last year, 24 — or 38% — of the city’s homicides occurred in ...

Are we really going to be the Gestapo?” podcaster Joe Rogan asked. “‘Where’s your papers?’ Is that what we’ve come to?” ...

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Police Chief Patrick Jaco has resigned from his post as leader of the Yazoo City Police Department after he told The Herald he will be pursuing another career path but will remain in Yazoo City to ...

This is not about politics. It is about students. It is about families, and ensuring that every child—regardless of zip code or income—has access to an education that nurtures both the mind and the ...