A restaurant fire in downtown Jackson is being investigated as arson. Taste of the Island Caribbean on E. Capitol Street ...

On Thursday, the library system released its 2025-2030 Strategic Plan that was developed with input from community members, stakeholders, and staff. The plan focuses on six priorities: revitalizing ...

The JSU tennis and softball teams also both won the 2024 SWAC Championships. JSU Sonic Boom Drum Majors Ariel Woods and Christian Houghton were among the many students honored to be recognized for ...

Ali Shamsiddeen requested that a judge be appointed to preside over a petition appealing the decision to take him off the Municipal Primary Election ballot. The petition claims the City of Jackson ...

Five years after a 16 WAPT report, Erin Pickens revisits the East County Line Road corridor and talks to a community leader ...

An issue at an Entergy substation led to hundreds of power outages in parts of west Jackson.At one point Tuesday morning, ...

Jackson police need your help finding a murder suspect. On August 6, 2023 around 7 p.m., Jackson Police began investigating a ...

Tonarri Moore, who federal investigators said was illegally given ammunition by a former interim sheriff has been sentenced.

JACKSON, Miss. — People who live in the neighborhoods near Grove Park are frustrated about not only the upkeep of the park but a closed-off viaduct that some say has been there for 10 years, affecting ...

No one was injured in the fire. Neighbors told 16 WAPT they heard a loud boom before the fire started and the homeowner was out of town. The cause of the fire is under investigation. JACKSON, Miss. — ...

Jackson is progressing with plans to demolish the boarded-up Hotel O on I-55 after environmental testing delays.

We have cooler temperatures for tomorrow. We'll have *** boundary stalled here across the South that will be cooling us down for us in Jackson, but far south, still expecting those low 80s, so 66 for ...