Right down the road from WXXV, Harrison Central playing host to Pascagoula. Red Rebels having won this match-up by 39 points last year before the Panthers rejoined the region 4 class 6A ranks. Harrison Central-33 Pascagoula-31 Categories: Friday Night Showcase, Local Sports, Sports Tags: football, high school football, sports
St. Stanislaus has eight years’ worth of bragging rights over rival Bay High, but that could all change tonight even though SSC is no longer part of the same district. Tigers hosting the Rock-a-Chaws and Bay High preaching the next step all off-season, this is the prove it moment for the Tigers. Bay High-22 St. Stanislaus-14 Categories: Friday Night Showcase,…
D’Iberville Warriors are out to prove they’re just as dangerous as last year and the Biloxi Indians are out to prove last year doesn’t mean anything. Reigning Region 4 champion D’Iberville paying a visit to Biloxi, having won the 2020 match-up 34-0 one year ago tomorrow. D’Iberville-34 Biloxi-14 Categories: Friday Night Showcase, Local Sports, Sports Tags: football, high school football,…
The three commissioners representing Jackson County on the Coastal Mississippi Tourism board are pushing back following the resignation announcement of CEO Milton Segarra. In a statement, Commissioners Roxy Condrey, Carla Todd, and Jim Williams say: “The Jackson County Commissioners are extremely disappointed and do not agree with the outcome of last week’s special call meeting resulting in the resignation of…
Don’t expect a noticeable change to our sunny & dry trend for another day or so, but it’ll get warmer and more humid going forward. Skies remain largely clear through the weekend, but more and more cloud cover is on the horizon. Only seeing light, wispy clouds this evening with an overnight low near 57 degrees and light northerly winds….
St. Stanislaus has eight years’ worth of bragging rights over rival Bay High, but that could all change tonight even though SSC is no longer part of the same district. News 25’s Jeff Haeger is in Hancock County with more. Categories: Local Sports, Sports Tags: football, high school football, sports
If you’re looking to break a sweat Saturday morning in Gulfport you can do a workout with the city’s finest. There’s PT with Gulfport PD taking place at Jones Park. This event is put on by the Gulfport Police Department and Bandit CrossFit. The goal is to promote a healthy active lifestyle and better connect citizens to the officers that…
In Moss Point, the Pascagoula River Audubon Center is holding their 2021 Hummingbird Migration Festival this weekend. There’s storytelling, hummingbird banding, native plant sales, crafts, bird watching, and vendors. It’s back again tomorrow from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the gates. It’s $10 for adults and $5 for children. The event is held during this…
In Harrison County, the Pass Christian Art Association is hosting their annual Fall Art Show. It’ll be taking place at the city’s public library starting today and ending October 16th. The association hopes it will bring people together to admire art from across the Coast. The show will showcase a large variety of art in many different mediums ranging from…
More than a thousand golfers from around the country packed their irons and headed to the Coast for the 46th annual Slavic Invitational after the tournament’s cancellation due to COVID last year. Two-man teams will compete at five different locations on the Gulf Coast through Sunday. The invitational began nearly half a century ago as a fundraiser by the Slavic…
Air Force Families Forever at Keesler Air Force Base held an opening ceremony today for their Fallen Heroes Butterfly Garden. People who have lost loved ones through war look for many ways to find peace from their tragedies. Today, the Air Force Families Forever Program at Keesler opened a brand-new butterfly garden to honor their fallen heroes. This program was…
UPS will kick off Saturday deliveries via UPS Ground from their Gautier-based facility starting tomorrow. The facility will put five new package vehicles into service tomorrow with a celebration and a police escort to Highway 90. This means local customers will no longer need to purchase UPS Air for Saturday deliveries. UPS representatives said the expansion adds ten new jobs…
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and Bel-Aire Elementary in Gulfport went gold in memory of Austin Guidry, a former student at the elementary school. Austin was diagnosed with cancer on January 9th, 2019 after being rushed to the hospital due to shortness of breath and severe side pain. On July 29th, 2019, just six months after he was diagnosed…
Boogie Knights, an all-male dance group, is forming on the Coast. Scott LeBlanc is in studio with more information on how you can become a part of these dancing kings. Categories: Local News, News Tags: Boogie Knights, Dance Tryouts
Moderna’s CEO weighs in on when he thinks the pandemic will be over and Americans will spend a record $10 billion on Halloween candy, decorations, and costumes. Jane King is in New York with those stories and more. Categories: Business Tags: morning business report
WXXV has partnered with the Mississippi Gulf Coast of Chamber of Commerce to spotlight a chamber member each month. For September, we’re taking a look at the many services Coastal Family Health Center has to offer. Categories: Chamber Member Spotlight Tags: Coastal Family Health Center, Mississippi Gulf Coast Chamber of Commerce Member Spotlight
The Mississippi State Department of Health is reporting an additional 1,505 cases of COVID-19 in Mississippi and 30 deaths. Nine of these deaths occurred between September 20th and September 23rd. An additional 21 deaths occurred between July 18th and September 19th, identified from death certificate reports. Mississippi’s total of COVID-19 cases is now 482,902 with 9,425 deaths. Categories: Local News,…
Very pleasant and comfortable conditions will continue through the weekend. With the less humid flow, morning low temperatures will continue to be a good 10 to 15 degrees below climatological lows. Afternoon high temperatures will max out in the upper 70s to low 80s this weekend. Beautiful weather will continue through the rest of the weekend into Sunday, but temperatures stair…
Very pleasant and comfortable conditions will continue through the weekend. With the less humid flow, morning low temperatures will continue to be a good 10 to 15 degrees below climatological lows. Afternoon high temperatures will max out in the upper 70s to low 80s this weekend Beautiful weather will continue through the rest of the weekend into Sunday, but temperatures stair…
Yesterday’s cold front has taken hold in South Mississippi and it is feeling good outside. In fact, it’s finally feeling as good as it looks with drier air at all levels of the atmosphere, so no more muggy afternoons for a few days. Expect tonight to be even cooler than last night with a low near 55 on the waterfront…
After coming back from 20 points down to beat Louisiana Tech by one point in the first week of the season, eventually, the law of averages was bound to bite the Bulldogs in another close game with the opposite result. As fate would have it, it only took two weeks for that to happen in Saturday’s 31-29 heartbreaker at the…
The high school volleyball playoffs haven’t started yet, but in a way, they have for schools like Pass Christian. Basically a must-win situation for the Lady Pirates and they had to do it against first place Stone. Pirates take the second set 25-19, they also take the fourth set and then in the fifth and final set, they get it…
The Mississippi Gulf Coast football program has won 21 consecutive regular season games dating back to the 2018 season. The only team that got close to knocking off the Bulldogs last year was Hinds in a 31-24 overtime thriller. Bulldogs and Eagles meeting for the first time since, third road game in the first four weeks for MGCCC. Hinds-42 MGCCC-37…
Community COVID vaccines are available Friday at Lynn Meadows Discovery Center in Gulfport. Singing River Health System, Ochsner and Lynn Meadows partnered up to set up a vaccination event tomorrow afternoon from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Pfizer vaccines are available for children 12 and older with adult consent and Johnson and Johnson vaccines are available for anyone 18 and…