Columbus, Miss. — Weekend storms raked parts of the Southeast, leaving deaths and injuries in their wake as a tornado smashed into a commercial district in a small Mississippi city and drenching rains ...

On Saturday, Rosy Davis led a group of more than 20 on a birdwatching adventure at Plymouth Bluff, part of a Birding 101 course sponsored by the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library.

COLUMBUS, Miss. — In a roughly 150-square-foot room on the second floor of The Commercial Dispatch, the newspaper of record for Columbus and surrounding Lowndes County, Mississippi, are large, heavy ...

“I’ve always depended on the kindness of strangers.” Among the most memorable lines penned by Southern playwright Tennessee Williams, it also expresses the reception visitors may expect when touring ...

SUNDAY: Warming back up! Temperatures will climb into the upper-70’s by the afternoon. Clouds will increase through the day, and a very light and short-lived shower is possible along the MS/TN line in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day are coming up soon. Some state and cities celebrate both holidays. is Mississippi one of ...

How does a small town that loses its main industry recover and move forward? Columbus, Mississippi—with a population hovering around 23,000—has long been a manufacturing hub. But in the early ‘00s, ...

Each spring, Columbus, Miss., has opened its Civil War-era homes to visitors. Some say the event should reflect more the oppression behind the architecture, and how the city has changed since. Image ...