Over Memorial Day weekend, at least 26 shootings were reported in major cities across Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama. At least 10 people were killed and 17 others were injured. It was the latest example of rising homicides and gun violence across the Gulf states this year.

Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama have the lowest vaccination rates in the U.S and doses are going to waste. Other countries, like India, are still struggling with high deaths and low vaccine supply.

Water providers in some rural communities across the region often fail to deliver clean and reliable water. Black Bayou Water Association is addressing that issue by connecting small utilities.

The death of George Floyd at the hands of law enforcement sparked police reform efforts and organizing all over the country. But in the birthplace of the civil rights movement, there hasn’t been as much action.

Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama have the lowest vaccination rates nationally, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Health officials trying out creative incentives to get the numbers up from church events to beer giveaways.

Plans for a passenger line connecting New Orleans with Mobile are underway, but opposition from the freight train industry could derail the service — and possibly President Joe Biden’s vision for an Amtrak resurgence.

In April, Mardi Gras Indians held a funeral and parade for one of their own — one of a few large cultural events to occur since the pandemic started and most large events in the region were canceled.

Many rural health leaders believe community health centers, which were born in the 60s to reach low-income communities of color, were a missing piece in achieving equity in the vaccine rollout.

En toda la Costa del Golfo, las autoridades sanitarias de la región están empezando a reconocer que es necesario un acercamiento más específico para hacer llegar las vacunas a los trabajadores de estas industrias de alto riesgo.

Prisons in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana are chronically understaffed, even after pay raises. The latest effort to fix the problem is taking place in Walmart parking lots across Mississippi.

After a fire destroyed their last apartment in 2019, Kenneth Tyrone King and his family recently saved up enough money to rent a new place in Birmingham,…

In a large auditorium in rural Plaquemines Parish, La., hundreds of commercial fishers and processing plant workers got their shot in the arm last week.…

The vote on whether or not to unionize the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. may seem like a once-in-a-lifetime chance for a big union win in the South.…

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic. The first case in Louisiana was March 9, Mississippi confirmed…