The Latest Breaking News from Jackson

Black business owners in Mississippi’s capital say the city’s broken water system poses dire costs for their bottom lines

Residents accuse the largely white state government of neglecting the needs of a city that's 82% Black. White flight in the 1970s devastated the tax base, posing a major challenge to any solution.

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

President Joe Biden says his administration has offered Mississippi “every single thing available” to address the water crisis that has gripped the state’s capital

The water crisis unfolding in Jackson, Mississippi, was decades in the making: the culmination of crumbling infrastructure, systemic racism and more extreme weather. It’s also a stark warning of trouble to come as climate change piles new stress onto the essential services Americans rely on every day.

Years of neglect, racism and poor infrastructure have created a "constant state of emergency"

Fox News anchor blamed a flood and a faulty water-treatment facility on the mayor’s progressive politics

For at least the third time in a dozen years, portable toilets are parked outside the ornate Mississippi Capitol because Jackson’s water system is in crisis

Jackson, Mississippi, lost access to safe running water after flooding – but it’s the capstone to years of problems with race a possible factor