The American Cancer Society is sponsoring the Great American Smokeout today and is challenging smokers to give up smoking for 24 hours. The team at Memorial Hospital in Gulfport held a booth in their lobby to help spread awareness to not only their employees, but to the community as well. According to the team at Memorial, after 20 minutes of…
Gulf Coast Community Ministries held a Thanksgiving food giveaway today. This is day two out of three, the ministries will be giving out food. The first day was this Tuesday and the last will be this upcoming Tuesday. Overall, the ministries have enough Thanksgiving food to feed about 200 families. The organization purchased some food themselves as well as collected…
Ocean Springs and its local businesses are getting ready for the Christmas season. Lights will be up, events will be hosted, and Santa and elves might even be spotted. Starting on November 27th, businesses will participate in the annual Small Business Saturday promotion. December 2nd will have a tree lighting event with Santa at the Mary C. from 6 p.m….
The Mississippi Aquarium is preparing to host their second annual Otter Trotter 5K Thanksgiving morning. Before the feast, work up an appetite with Bayou the Otter and others participating in the race. The route begins and ends at the Aquarium. Registration includes admission to the aquarium Thanksgiving Day, which will open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Mississippi Aquarium Public…
Oh boy! Your favorite Disney characters are back in Biloxi for the weekend. Disney on Ice presents Mickey and Friends at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum. They will be performing several shows starting today through Sunday. All of your favorite characters will be in attendance including princesses like Ariel and Jasmine and beloved toys like Buzz and Woody. Family-friendly ticket pricing…
November is Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Month and to help those out in the community, Back Bay Mission and Hard Rock Hotel and Casino came together to host the 15th annual Hunger-Homeless Meal Giveaway. Each year, hundreds of thousands of families become homeless, including 1.6 million children. To help those who have fallen on hard times in the Biloxi area,…
The Mississippi Department of Public Safety announced today it is partnering with Idemia, the world-leading biometric and identity solutions provider, to introduce Mississippi Mobile ID to residents. Mississippi Mobile ID is a digital version of a physical driver’s license that will allow residents to control their identity from a free app on their smartphone. It will be a voluntary service…
Stennis employees gathered in Hancock County for another prayer and freedom rally protesting the federal government’s vaccine mandate deadline. The group Stennis Employees for Medical Freedom are standing united against the vaccine mandate with employees from other NASA Centers across the country from 3:30 to 5:30 at the intersection of Highway 607 and Interstate 10, just south of Stennis Space…
If a magical, fun-filled afternoon sounds interesting to you, pay close attention. This Saturday, there’s something called the Sugar Plum Fairy Tea Party being put on by the Mississippi Gulf Coast Ballet Theatre. Their Executive Director Elaine Kulick is in studio with more.
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A group of Russians will be performing at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church on Friday. Performing in the concert and hailing from St. Petersburg, Russia. There will be Nadezda Vinogradova half soprano, Andre Pugachev bass, Alexey Popov baritone and piano, and Dmitry Petrvo as the music director. They make up ChoRuss, a spiritual acappella vocal ensemble performing a concert…
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department has announced the identity of human remains initially found in 2016 in Moss Point. Through the help of a private donor, the state crime lab, and Othram, Inc. in Texas, the person has been identified as Aaron McGraw, who was born in 1961 and reported missing in 2015. McGraw’s skeletal remains were found in a…
The City of Gulfport hosted Civil Rights Activist Dr. James Meredith at MGCCC’s Performing Arts Center for a special presentation. Last night, Dr. Meredith spoke not only as a Civil Rights icon, but as an American icon. As the first African-American student to attend the once-segregated University of Mississippi in 1962, Dr. Meredith encouraged the audience to think about race,…
Rain chances will gradually decrease through this afternoon as a cold front moves east. An increase in northeasterly flow will become breezy this evening through Friday evening. Much cooler/drier air moves in following the front with low temperatures trending in the low to mid 40s for most Thursday and Friday night. High pressure then builds in heading into the weekend….
The main focus of the short term will be the cold front that is still looking on track to slide down into our area later today. This increases rain chances gradually throughout the day, generally looking to be 30-40% at the peak late morning. We can’t rule out some thunder in the forecast, but the risk is rather limited. After the…
A cold front will move toward our area from the northwest today and tonight before moving east across our area late Thursday into Thursday evening. Before the front arrives on Thursday, primarily southeasterly winds will continue to gradually moisten the atmosphere over our area, helping elevate rain chances to about 40%. Drier air will be building over the region as…
Ocean Springs quarterback Bray Hubbard has received an offer from Southern Miss for football. The dual threat junior is already committed to USM for baseball and now has the chance to play both. Busy week for Hubbard, the newly minted Mississippi Mr. Football for Class 6A fresh off the program’s first playoff victory in seven years and responsible for 50…
Today, the New Orleans Saints announced Drew Brees will be the featured guest of honor against the Buffalo Bills. Brees will be back at the dome for the first time since his June retirement, calling the game on NBC alongside Mike Tirico. At halftime, the team, the fans, and the city will have the chance to thank Brees and give…
They say the bigger the setback, bigger the comeback and you’d be hard-pressed to find a better comeback story than that of former Biloxi Shucker Corbin Burnes, now your 2021 National League Cy Young Award winner. This afternoon, Burnes beat out Zach Wheeler of the Phillies and Max Scherzer of the Dodgers to become the third Brewers pitcher to ever…
Gulfport’s Kate Smith has been recognized numerous times as a part of the Lady Admirals soccer program and she still has a whole senior season ahead of her. Nine months after scoring the game winning goal in the 2021 6A State Championship game, Gulfport forward Kate Smith is back on the pitch. This time with her name inked on a…
In order to win back-to-back high school state championships, like the Gulfport girls soccer team, you need some under classmen to step up to make big time plays in big time games. That’s exactly what happened for the Lady Admirals, except now all those young guns are already seniors going out the way they started, together. This afternoon, four of…
The second Shrimp Basket location opened today in Ocean Springs. The new beach party on Bienville Blvd. highlights the new re-branded Shrimp Basket on the Coast. The art work on the walls are created by local coastal artist purchased at the Peter Anderson Festival. It’s a new look with shiplap walls and white sand, but the same great tasting coastal…
A cold front will move toward our area from the northwest today and tonight before moving east across our area late Thursday into Thursday evening. Before the front arrives on Thursday, primarily southeasterly winds will continue to gradually moisten the atmosphere over our area, helping elevate rain chances to about 40%. Drier air will be building over the region as…
No one should spend the holidays alone. That’s why the Biloxi VFW Post 2434 is holding their first ever Thanksgiving Dinner for Veterans without families this Sunday, November 21st at 2 p.m. With just a few days left before the big feast, House Committee Chairman Jim Strzalkowski says they are in need of more food donations of any kind. Strzalkowski…