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NEW ORLEANS, La. — An American Cruise Lines vessel, which was docked in New Orleans and scheduled to dock in Natchez and Vicksburg on the round-trip Highlights of the Mississippi Cruise, was involved in a collision on Friday afternoon.

The American Heritage vessel was reportedly struck by an Atlantic Asphalt tanker while the cruise was docked on the Mississippi River ...


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NATCHEZ — Adams County may need to issue approximately $4 million in general obligation bonds to cover outstanding costs associated with the new commercial air service here.

The money is needed to help pay for the new commercial airport terminal and help fund the airport's agreement with SkyWest Airlines.

Chuck Lambert, a budget consultant hired by the Adams Cou...


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NATCHEZ — Natchez-Adams County teachers, parents and children now have access to free educational resources through the Mississippi State University Extension’s Mississippi LIFT Resource & Referral Network.

An open house and ribbon cutting on Thursday marked the beginning of the new Natchez-based RR Center located at Copiah-Lincoln Community College. It is one of 5...


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My brother Andrew was 20 years old when the Ku Klux Klan murdered him in Mississippi on June 21, 1964, along with James Chaney and Michael Schwerner. They were there to work alongside Black Mississippians registering to vote.

Sixty-two years later, students at Jackson State, Alcorn State, Tougaloo College and the University of Mississippi, campuses where the Andrew Goo...


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NATCHEZ — As Lewis Carroll wrote in "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland," “Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.”

The theme of Thursday night’s Natchez-Adams County Chamber of Commerce gala may have been a Wonderland, but it is not a wonder how the worthy pair, Bennie Boone and Jimmy Smith, earned the honors of Natchezian Woman of t...


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