Blue Springs News

Toyota's decision last December to postpone indefinitely opening a $1.3 billion assembly plant in Blue Springs has affected plans for the suppliers scheduled to serve the plant and the communities expecting new jobs and added tax revenue.

Call me a pessimist, but when news broke last week about plans to build a hybrid car plant in Mississippi - I found it a bit suspect.

BLUE SPRINGS, Miss. a ' Work is under way on Interchange and Connector-Distributor Road at Mississippi Highway 9 in Pontotoc and Union counties.

Truckmaker PACCAR will delay opening its $400 million engine plant in Lowndes County for a year, a company spokesman said.

Temp: 81.0 F Heat Index: 88 F Meridian, Key Field, MS The first Toyota supplier to announce plans for a north Mississippi location has offered buyouts to its 16 employees in Baldwyn.

Mississippi and Toyota officials are dismissing a published report saying Toyota is considering producing other vehicles than the Prius at the Blue Springs plant.

Auto manufacturers saw May sales increase from the month earlier, but they remained well below last year's figures.

Phil Pepper's extraordinarily cautious outlook about economic recovery in Mississippi reinforces unambiguously the importance of maintaining every educational attainment initiative in progress at the state, regional and district levels.

Fish & Fisher, a black-owned general contractor in Jackson, Mississippi, hauled more than 1 million cubic tons of dirt to make way for a new Nissan plant in Canton, Miss., and also helped expand the Jackson-Evers International Airport.

Haley Barbour, employees of the Mississippi Development Authority and Toyota of North America claiming racial discrimination in the building of a new plant in northeast Mississippi.

According to Fish & Fisher, Inc. Vice President Jacqueline Williams, the company took every step to prepare to bid on the prime construction job for the Toyota Plant, which is going up in Blue Springs near Tupelo.

Toyota has no plans to produce anything other than the Prius at its Blue Springs plant, the automaker said Thursday.

The former senior vice president for Toyota Motor North America said he expects the automaker to open its Northeast Mississippi plant when the economy gets better.

A pending recommendation that Tupelo's rail-crossing traffic and safety issues be resolved with a $407 million, elevated track through the heart of the city prompted strongly negative reaction Thursday from the ...

Earlier this year, Toyota announced that it would invest USD 1.3 billion to build a factory on a 1700-acre site in Blue Springs, Mississippi to produce its Highlander sports utility vehicles.

DETROIT : Toyota Motor said on Thursday that buyouts for factory workers, possibly shorter workweeks and reductions in executive compensation would be part of an emergency cost-cutting program it announced last ...

Deputies arrived at a discount store to investigate an armed robbery but now authorities are convinced it was an inside job.

TOYOTA PLANT MATTER OF 'WHEN' Since Toyota's announcement that the company would delay the start of production of Prius at the Blue Springs plant, numerous articles and letters to the editor have been published ...

A year after talking about Mississippi's financial gains, Gov. Haley Barbour delivered his first State of the State address of this second term Tuesday that resembled a tough talk about the slumping economy and ...

Gov. Haley Barbour announced today that Toyota will honor financial commitments made to the state and local entities even though the company has delayed start of production at its Prius plant in Blue Springs.