Category: Local News

NATCHEZ, Miss. – City officials are making another try to get road builders to submit bids for repairing much-traveled downtown Natchez streets after no contractor came forward by last week’s deadline. The original street resurfacing plans are being revised to make it “more appetizing for contractors,” Mayor Dan Gibson said Tuesday as Natchez aldermen agreed…

NATCHEZ, Miss. – City aldermen voted 3-2 Tuesday for revoking the permit of a downtown Natchez nightclub that city officials have declared a public nuisance amid complaints of its loud noise and patrons’ unruly behavior. Despite more than a dozen people formally urging aldermen to let Truth Lounge reopen, the board declined to reverse a…

NATCHEZ, Miss. – June 18, 2024 – A collection of the region’s renowned chefs, restaurateurs, vintners and craft beer brewers will travel to Natchez, Mississippi, a quaint riverside town known for its southern charm, significant architecture and fascinating history, from July 26-27 to take part in the Natchez Food & Wine Festival. The annual festival kicks off on Friday evening with…

Park Guide John Retallack is one of several staff members of the Natchez National Historical Park who provides tours of the Melrose slave quarters. NATCHEZ, Miss. –  A Melrose slave quarters is the site of a temporary exhibit that presents the history of the McMurran family – who built the Melrose estate — and the…

JACKSON, Miss. –  Governor Tate Reeves today announced that the Office of Broadband Expansion and Accessibility of Mississippi (BEAM) recently approved 24 broadband infrastructure projects to be funded by the Capital Projects Fund (CPF). BEAM anticipates additional CPF projects to be approved on a rolling basis throughout the summer. “We’re working hard to expand broadband infrastructure…