Long overdue news broke this week that Mississippi regulators will no longer allow a blank electricity ratepayer check for construction of the Kemper County “clean coal” plant. In chasing the myth ...

Data is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hospitalization data is a daily average of Covid-19 patients in hospital service areas that intersect with Kemper County, an area which may ...

Mississippi Power's Kemper County energy facility reached a significant milestone last week with the first fire of the project's gasifiers. The Jackson County Republican Club hosts speaker Ashby Foot, ...

The Mississippi Public Service Commission (MPSC) at an open meeting on June 21 unanimously passed a motion instructing its counsel to prepare an order pursuing potential solutions regarding the Kemper ...

Years of contention and threatened electric rate increases ended Tuesday as utility regulators approved a settlement declaring how much Mississippi Power Co. customers should pay for their share of a ...

Mississippi Power customers would see their electricity bills remain the same or decrease slightly if the state Public Service Commission approves a settlement agreement reached Friday on the Kemper ...

Mississippi Power Co. on Thursday said it would proceed with plans to build a 582-MW integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant as proposed in Kemper County after the Mississippi Public ...

Residents have to drive some 30 minutes to reach a pharmacy. It's especially a burden on the poor and the elderly with transportation issues. Even if a new pharmacy would come in, it could take months ...

KEMPER COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – A Mississippi resident was arrested after a SNAP fraud investigation, according to the Investigations Division of the Mississippi Department of Human Service (MDHS).