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On March 2, Gov. Tate Reeves and the Oxford Board of Aldermen decided to eliminate all mask mandates and lower COVID-19 capacity limits. At 5 p.m. on the following day, people could officially enter some businesses maskless, gather in larger...

A newly released report from the Housing Insecurity Lab and LOU-HOME, Inc. sheds light on the urgent need for affordable housing in the LOU community. The report, titled “Housing Insecurity in Lafayette County, Mississippi: An Affordability Crisis,” says there’s been...

Vaccines will be available on campus beginning Friday, March 12, to people who work on campus, according to an email from Provost Noel Wilkin. Currently, only the Pfizer vaccine is available and only those who meet Mississippi State Department of...

The Mississippi Senate passed House Bill 852 on Thursday, offering a $1,000 raise to all teachers and rewarding new teachers with $1,100 “in an effort to make jobs more attractive.” Illustration by Katherine Butler. “We will not play politics with...

At the annual Mississippi Critterz board meeting, Janice Antonow, the Oxford city liaison for the shelter, announced that the shelter is on track to shut down. This announcement came after questions from local attendees who could not be identified on...

Some businesses still require patrons to wear masks, but many of the bars on the Square do not, following recent decisions from Gov. Tate Reeves and the Board of Aldermen. Photo by Katherine Butler. Though Gov. Tate Reeves and the...

A House panel on Tuesday gutted a Senate medical marijuana proposal and inserted the medical marijuana language voters passed as a constitutional amendment in November. “I’m interested in seeing that bill die — I think it just did die,” said...

This past weekend, Ole Miss Athletics held its “Pack the Truck” event where donors dropped off cases of bottled water for Jackson residents who have been without running water for over two weeks. Jackson’s water crisis began during the record-breaking...

The Mississippi House of Representatives voted 82-28 on Wednesday to pass bill that will ban transgender athletes from competing on female sports teams in schools and universities. The bill previously passed in the state Senate with a vote of 34-9,...

The City of Oxford announced on Thursday that the animal shelter managed by MS Critterz must close to surrenders. The city is providing two transports for the animals that are still housed in the shelter, which will still continue as...