Gulf States Newsroom

As Mississippi looks for alternatives to its current system of restoring voting rights, one bill was pitched this session using Alabama’s system as a framework.

Residents around Meta’s data center in Holly Ridge, Louisiana, say the air is brown and the water is rust-colored. The Gulf States Newsroom is starting a monitoring project to test the air quality.

As advocates and lawmakers in Mississippi look for ways to push automatic restoration in the state, Louisiana offers a model for compromise. But, advocates there say their system comes with trade-offs as well.

Louisiana officials signed non-disclosure agreements as Amazon's $12 billion data centers unfolded in secret.

The Gulf States Newsroom traveled across Mississippi and collected 219 written responses from people with lived experience of addiction.

This year, dozens of voting rights bills died in committee, nearly all of them in one day.

The Gulf States Newsroom wants to find out what residents in Richland Parish want to know concerning Meta's Hyperion data center's impact on their lives by monitoring and testing the air, water and dust.

The multibillion-dollar liquefied natural gas industry has reshaped the landscape, the economy and the daily lives of the people who have lived in Cameron Parish for generations.

Mississippi will receive more than $400M to fight the opioid epidemic. So far, officials haven't directed it toward programs that support addiction recovery.

After January's winter storm, the Oxford community has come together to take care of those needs — not just while waiting for other responders, but also fill persistent gaps.