Pearl River News

Jeannine May, volunteer executive director of Keep the Rez Beautiful, said trash bags will now be available at several popular beaches and islands on Ross Barnett Reservoir and the upper Pearl River for boaters to place their trash in and take it with them when they leave.

Environmental leaders said sewage keeps bubbling up the pipe line, and it needs to be fixed now.

Mississippi Department of Transportation workers picked up cigarette butts, soda bottles, fast-food bags and other rubbish along the major roads of Hancock County Tuesday as part of the 22nd annual Trash Bash.

Marty Milstead representing the Home Builders Association of Mississippi; Sen. Chris Massey, R-Nesbit, who handled the bills in the Senate; Gov.

We've had a fair amount of spring rains here in central Mississippi the past couple of weeks, but what if it just kept on raining for a few days, with creeks rising? And what if on top of that, a storm system just sat above the northern part of the state, so that rain just kept falling, swelling tributaries upstream? Like it was in 1979, Jackson ... (more)