USPS deadlines for Christmas packages

Santa Claus comes two weeks from today. There’s nothing worse than not getting your Christmas packages delivered before the Christmas holiday. It’s the busiest time of the year for the U.S. Postal Service. Millions of packages find their way through the postal service each holiday season. Postal deadlines ensure your packages arrive to your loved ones on time. One deadline…

Ice skating at the Coliseum

It’s one of South Mississippi’s favorite holiday pastimes and for a few weeks now ice skating at the Coast Coliseum has provided lots of fun for local residents. News 25’s Grant Chighizola has more. Categories: Harrison County, Local News, News Tags: Coast Coliseum, ice skating

It’s a holly jolly drive thru Christmas in Gulfport

Folks in Harrison County are going the extra mile to spread Christmas cheer without risking exposure to COVID-19. Go ahead and mark you calendars for Saturday, December 12th when everyone is invited to celebrate the holiday season with a drive-thru community Christmas event in Gulfport at the Isiah Frederick’s Community Center. The annual event will look a little different due…

Weekly Jobs Report: 853,000 total first time jobless claims

First time jobless claims jumped last week. According to the Labor Department, first time claims total 853,000. That’s 100,000 more than the previous week and the highest number of claims since September 19th. It’s much higher than analysts had been expecting though they had predicted an increase over last week’s numbers. Continuing claims or the number of people claiming benefits…

Neighborhood in Long Beach puts on holiday light display

While many Coast communities are canceling holiday celebrations due to the recent uptick in COVID-19 cases, one local neighborhood has provided Gulf Coast residents a safe, socially distanced way to get into the holiday spirit. The Long Beach neighborhood puts on an annual holiday light display that attracts many from all over the Coast. While driving down the magical street,…

Local dog featured in national competition

One South Mississippi pet adoption story is gaining national recognition and now you have the chance to vote for it and help out the animals at the Humane Society of South Mississippi in the process. Sylvia Hanes adopted her dog Champ the pit bull from HSSM back in 2012. Sylvia soon discovered Champ’s love of sprinting which inspired her to…

Ocean Springs High School to operate hybrid schedule next semester

As COVID cases continue to surge in our area and their varied impacts on our ability to provide educational services to students has continued to accelerate in recent days. In order to achieve higher levels of physical distancing in classrooms and decrease the current level of direct exposures and quarantines, the Ocean Springs Board of Trustees has approved the implementation…

New Mississippi Aquarium mural welcomes dolphins

While taking a cruise along Highway 90 in Gulfport, make sure to keep an eye out for the Mississippi Aquarium’s newest mural. Gulfport artist and retired Gulfport firefighter Robert Waldrop designed and painted the 70 by 5 foot mural at the intersection of Highway 90 and 20th Avenue. The mural highlights the Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphins who call the aquarium home….

Zeta debris clean up in Pass Christian

What a difference a week makes! Last week, we showed you how Hurricane Zeta debris clean up had begun in Pass Christian and now just a little more than a week later sections of the city streets and sidewalks are clearly debris free. One section notably debris free is East Second Street in Pass Christian. Pass Christian Mayor Chipper McDermott…

C-Spire donates iPads to Mississippi Center for Autism

C-Spire does more than help us communicate via the world wide web. At the Mississippi Center for Autism and Related Development, C-Spire donated five brand new iPads to help with the communication of autistic children. The iPads will be used to increase the communication skills with children who are nonverbal. The easy to use touch screen makes it easy for…

Holiday food drop in Gulfport

With the holidays this year occurring in the midst of a global pandemic, the Gulf Coast Community has continued to help make sure no one goes hungry. This afternoon in Gulfport, several community organizations, including Feeding the Gulf Coast of Mobile, Extra Tables out of Hattiesburg, and Extend a Hand, Help a Friend, gathered to distribute boxes of food to…

Pass Christian elementary and middle school robotics teams rising to new levels

Pass Christian middle and elementary school’s robotics team is taking the program to new heights, scoring three major wins in the recent Mississippi Gulf Coast VEX IQ Challenge for Excellence and Design. At first glance it may look like Legos, but this set up is actually constructed by Pass Christian Elementary and Pass Christian Middle School robotics students and serves…

Coronavirus vaccine heading to Mississippi

Mississippi is receiving it first round of coronavirus vaccines, but who will have access to the vaccine first? Nine hundred and seventy-five doses of the coronavirus vaccine will be sent to Memorial Hospital in Gulfport this weekend or early next week. Everyone wants to know who will get the vaccine first. Cindy Hansen, the director of employee health at Memorial…

MSDH reports 2,764 new COVID-19 cases and 24 new deaths across the state

The Mississippi State Department of Health reported 2,746 new COVID-19 cases and 24 new deaths across the state. The statewide total stands at 170,672 confirmed cases and 4,041 deaths. Here are the numbers in our area: Hancock County has 1,410 cases and 45 deaths Harrison County is now at 8,140 total cases and 117 deaths Jackson County has 7,123 cases…

Man struck and killed by train in Biloxi

A pedestrian was killed while crossing train tracks in Biloxi late this morning. Police tell News 25 a man was walking across the tracks on the intersection of Eisenhower Drive just before 11 a.m. when the train fatally struck him. The train came to an emergency stop shortly after the incident, prompting closures of railroad intersections at Eisenhower Drive and…

Frank Janca Art Exhibit on display at the MGCCC JC Campus

Attention all art lovers, there’s a new exhibit on display at MGCCC’s Jackson County campus. It’s featuring the work of Frank Janca, a Biloxian and internationally renowned artist. The name of the exhibit is ‘Mississippi and the French Connection.’ Janca picked this name because he has painted subjects in both France and Mississippi, yet the way he expresses light in…

Jackson-George Regional Library System returning to curbside services

The Jackson-George Library System is changing their services for the safety of their patrons. After the state released an advisory about having gatherings inside, it was decided that they needed to reduce their service. They’re now providing only curbside services and computer by appointment. You can still access multiple library services online like the new Overdrive Library program which provides…

Former Biloxi official Fredrick Cliff Kirkland indicted on sex crime charges

A Harrison County grand jury found enough evidence to indict former Biloxi city official Fredrick Cliff Kirkland on nine sex crime charges. According to our media partner the Sun Herald, Kirkland was initially arrested on December 17th, 2019 on two counts of touching of a child for lustful purposes. After hearing evidence in the case, the grand jury indicted him…