WAPT meteorologists often issue alert days (yellow icon) and impact days (red icon) during severe weather periods. Here's the difference between them, and how they can help plan your day.

According to officials, a section of Interstate 20 at the Flowers/ Ceres Boulevard exit is blocked off until further notice due to a tanker truck overturning and leaking fluid.

After getting a winter storm day off Tuesday, some Jackson Public Schools students had to be moved at Murrah High School Wednesday when the heating unit malfunctioned. Jackson Public Schools said ...

A teenager who stabbed three young girls to death at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England was sentenced Thursday to more than 50 years in prison for what a judge called “the most extreme, ...

Terry High School officially opened its new gym Thursday after a weather delay earlier this week. The new facility, which has been a longtime coming, is the largest in the Hinds County School District ...

Four people were killed after a massive fire engulfed a Missouri apartment complex Wednesday. The fire started shortly after 6 a.m. at the Indy Ridge Apartments in Independence, east of Kansas City.

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.

A 4-year-old girl was killed and a police officer was critically injured after a shootout between officers and a suspect in Ohio.

Elephant-sized sweaters may not exist, but these zoo elephants found other ways to keep warm. Watch the video to find out how!

Workers in agriculture are saying Mississippi's future looks bleak based on financial challenges surrounding farming. Thursday morning, they went before the Mississippi Senate Agriculture Committee to ...

The Rankin County Sheriff's Department is investigating more than a dozen auto burglaries, and they hope pictures of the suspects will help them crack the case. The burglaries have happened on Holly ...

Two Republicans, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, broke ranks to oppose Hegseth.