Here’s your chance to dress up and grab a little bit of bling in the process. The 5th Annual Diamonds and Ice Charity Ball is next Friday, December 2 at the D’Iberville Community Center. Doors open at 5:30 PM and the event will go until 8:30. It’s a gala event that will help Carter’s Champions, ball gowns and tuxedos are…
The Walter Anderson Museum is raffling off a golf cart, but not just any golf cart. This is the second year the museum has done a raffle for a golf that includes a design from Walter Anderson’s artwork. This year, the design was inspired by the mural art in the community center next to the museum. The room is famous…
With the holidays here, people across the coast are hitting the roads. The Mississippi Highway Patrol began a travel period that started this morning at 6 AM and will continue until midnight on Sunday. Expect to see more troopers on the roads along the interstates and federal highways. The Highway Patrol also wants to remind travelers to be safe while…
While a good old-fashioned fried turkey can be delicious for Thanksgiving, the cooking process can actually be quite dangerous. One slight mistake can cause a grease fire that’s very difficult to put out. Taking proper caution during the cooking process is key to making sure everyone is safe. First — make sure the turkey you’re cooking is completely thawed out…
Pass Christian police are asking the public’s help to locate a suspect in a catalytic converter theft case. Police say Clay Necaise is wanted on felony malicious mischief charges dating back to October 27. The charges stem from several catalytic converters stolen in the city. Anyone with information on Necaise is asked to contact Pass Christian police at 228-452-3300 or…
We’re on tap for a cool, quiet, and overall mild night, with the exception of morning fog. The quiet and dry conditions will be short lived though because beginning tomorrow afternoon, we’ll see scattered showers in the area throughout the afternoon and evening hours. Efficient rain makers and heavy rainfall will be possible tomorrow which is why our area is…
This Sunday the Mississippi Gulf Coast Ballet Theatre will host its annual Sugar Plum Fairy Tea. The tea party is 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at the D’Iberville Community Center. Tickets are $30. Characters from The Nutcracker ballet will lead the party while guests enjoy sipping hot cocoa with marshmallows, peppermint sticks and eating fancy desserts. Guests will be…
This year’s holiday events start this Saturday for Shop Small Saturday, with the Bay St. Louis Christmas Parade. There will be more than 100 vehicles and Santa himself joining in the festivities. The parade rolls at 5:30 Saturday night starting at The Bay St. Louis Municipal Harbor and ending at The Hancock County Courthouse where the Christmas tree lighting…
We finally get to see sunshine dominate a day! Clearing began this morning and all we will be left with are a few clouds from time to time this afternoon. Temperatures will reach the mid-70s across South Mississippi this afternoon. The quiet weather will be short-lived, though. A frontal system to our west will begin to influence our weather beginning…
It’s been a long wait, but Amtrak is set to return to the Coast! An agreement has been reached between CSX Transportation, Amtrak, and the Alabama State Port Authority. According to the Surface Transportation Board, the negotiating parties requested the case to be held in abeyance while executing the conditions identified within the settlement agreement. Those terms however, were not…
There’s a luxury development in the works for East Biloxi. Take a look at the master plan for what will be the Tullis Gardens. During Tuesday’s City Council meeting– members gave the green light for developers to continue building an upscale 200-room hotel, scenic gardens, and even a full-size replica of the historic manor house. The 8-acre site is city-owned…
With Thanksgiving coming up tomorrow, preparations are under way for the big holiday meal. For those who can’t make it to a planned get-together, several organizations are inviting the public to join them for a Thanksgiving lunch. Here’s a look at some of the free meals we know about so far. Soria City Lodge 542 | 9 am – 11…
The Gulf Coast Center for Nonviolence is looking for donors to help with its Adopt-A-Family Christmas program. For more than a decade, thousands of families have benefited from this program. The center pairs donors with families in need, depending on how much each donor is willing to give. Donors receive a wish list of items and sizes to help when…
In just three days, Gulfport Harbor Lights will flip the switch and light up Jones Park with its annual Gulfport Harbor Lights Winter Festival. Not only are the Gulfport Harbor Lights a favorite among coast residents, but the attraction was also just ranked by Yahoo and Best Life as No. 5 in the Top 10 U.S. Cities with the Best…
A historical marker is back where it belongs. The Turkey Creek marker was put up in 2018 to bring attention to the area where freed slaves enhanced the community over 150 years ago. In 2021, the sign that celebrated the heritage of Gulfport’s Turkey Creek community was vandalized. Residents created a Go-Fund-Me page for a new marker – with $2500…
A popular Christmas event returns next weekend in Pass Christian. The 37th Annual Christmas in the Pass will be next Friday, December 2nd. The event begins at 4 p.m., with the parade starting at 6. In addition to businesses open late and vendors lined up for Christmas shopping, there will be a tree lighting at 6:45 and a fireworks…
After a couple days of light precipitation in some areas with mostly cloudy skies, clouds will break up today revealing partly cloudy to eventually mostly sunny skies. These conditions warm us up a few degrees, with highs forecast to reach the low to mid 70s for much of the area. With relatively low dew points during the day paired with…
We’re on tap for an overall quiet but cloudy night. Temperature wise, we’ve officially made our way back to seasonal average. Lows tonight will range from the low to mid 50’s and then highs tomorrow will be in the low 70’s. Starting out early Thursday with mostly cloudy skies from a thick low-level cloud deck in place (and at multiple…
HATTIESBURG, Miss. –It all comes down to this for Southern Miss, still just one win away from its first bowl game since the 2019 season. The Golden Eagles have been oh so close the past couple weeks, losing to nine-win Coastal Carolina and nine-win South Alabama by just a combined 10 points. Their last chance to win their sixth game…
GULFPORT, Miss. — After trailing by as many as 13 points in the first half of Tuesday’s Thanksgiving Tournament championship game at Gulfport High School, the Admirals staged a comeback en route to taking down Madison-Ridgeland Academy and Ole Miss commit Josh Hubbard, 59-52. Watch the highlights courtesy of News 25’s Jeff Haeger above! Categories: Local Sports, Sports Tags: ADMIRALS,…
GAUTIER, Miss. — Gautier didn’t have to wait very long for a second chance against Picayune, in a rematch of the regular season finale that saw the Maroon Tide claim the Region 4-5A title by way of a 48-42 overtime thriller. But the Gators never lost sight of the main objective, beating Wayne County by 17 points in the first…
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. –There are 24 MHSAA football teams from the six coastal counties. This week, there are only 24 teams in the entire state practicing over Thanksgiving week, and four of them are from right in our backyard. Starting with Ocean Springs, coming off a first round win over Northwest Rankin and then a second round victory over Oak…
Early this evening, light showers/drizzle continues to spread NE across the area in response to a weak mid-level impulse/shortwave trough riding along progressive SW flow aloft. Drier air will filter in at H7 aloft with some lingering patchy low clouds going into Wednesday morning, moreso across areas along and south of I-10/12 revealing partly cloud to mostly sunny skies across…
Memorial Health in Gulfport has reached an exciting milestone with one of their surgical technologies. The da Vinci System is used in the General Surgeries Department at Memorial Hospital. The sytem recently reached 5000 procedures completed. It provides a minimally invasive approach to surgeries. Chief of the Department of Surgeries, Dr. Scott Blackwell, talked to us about the technology. “We…