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The Madison County Business League has elected six new business leaders to the Board of Directors. The six new directors will serve four year terms that began May 1, 2013. "I want to thank all the candidates for their willingness to serve by having placed their names...

Only a few months into its implementation, Madison County's new Geographic Information System (GIS) plan has already made tides of information accessible through the county's website. The service went live in January and is the first phase of a multi-year...

C Spire Wireless recently activated 4G LTE service on a new cell site in Canton, expanding and filling in coverage on the high-speed data network it launched last December for the city. 4G LTE allows C Spire customers to download apps and game faster, open files...

The strategizing is beginning in Madison County. By the time it’s over in six months, public and private leaders are expecting an economic roadmap for the county’s future growth and success. “The benefit of this will be to bring more jobs to Madison County, property...

CANTON, MISS. — David Aldana, currently director of Nissan's manufacturing facility in Aguascalientes, Mexico, has been named vice president of the Nissan Canton Vehicle Assembly Plant in Canton, Miss. Aldana will replace Dan Bednarzyk who has been named to the newly...

Madison officials are working with representatives of Target on a store design and potential development site. Target has approved a plan detailing the store’s design, known as “elevations,” in the city, Mayor Mary Hawkins Butler said Tuesday. “The elevations have...

May 02, 2013 By MICHAEL SIMMONS Is a Target store coming to Madison? That appears to be the case. On Monday, at a mayoral debate between Mayor Mary Hawkins-Butler and opponent John Bell Crosby, Hawkins-Butler announced the news to an estimated crowd of 700. "Mary, I...

Sidney Allen of Butler Snow gave a detailed presentation at Monday night's meeting of the Madison County Board of Supervisors about initiatives pushed during the previous legislative session. Butler Snow was hired last year by the county to lobby on its behalf....

By MICHAEL SIMMONS April marks the 90th anniversary for Entergy Mississippi, and the 100th anniversary for Entergy Corporation. Looking back, the company has been integral in the growth of the state, and in particular, Madison County. On Wednesday, Entergy was...

Apr 11, 2013 CANTON — A large patch of land here that’s served as a local family’s cattle farm, the site of innumerable hunting and fishing trips and even a wedding could become the next site in Mississippi to land a large employer that could bring thousands of jobs...