GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV)- Absentee voting for next Tuesday’s Ward 2 city council runoff in Gulfport is now underway. There are a few ways to cast an absentee ballot. In-person absentee voting will be open at City Hall from 8 a.m.…
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV) -- Gulfport City Council Ward 2 candidates Bryan Caldwell and Ron Ruland will face each other in a runoff election, after neither candidate secured 50% of the vote on Tuesday. Four candidates were up for the position…
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV) -- Just one week out from the special election for Gulfport City Council's Ward 2 seat, the four candidates gathered for a public forum at…
GULFPORT, Miss (WXXV)-- The family of Gulfport Ward 2 city councilman Ron Roland has submitted his resignation from the council. In a letter submitted to Gulfport Mayor Hugh Keating by Roland's son…
Gulfport, Miss. (WXXV) - The Gulfport City Council recognized its outgoing members, as well as retiring Mayor Billy Hewes. This comes ahead of the new…
The results are in for the Gulfport Ward 5 Special City Council Election. BJ Sellers unofficially wins the seat with a majority of the votes. Absentee ballots still have to be counted before the results are finalized. Sellers received 56%…
The Gulfport City Council passed a resolution to set up a special election for the vacant Ward 5 council seat. That motion passed unanimously at Tuesday’s…
Gulfport Ward 5 Councilman Myles Sharp officially tendered his resignation to Council President Rusty Walker Friday, days after announcing his intention to resign. Sharp's resignation takes effect at 11:30 p.m. on Monday, December 30. Since the resignation takes effect with…
A Gulfport councilman has announced his intention to resign his Ward 5 seat. Myles Sharp posted to social media on Tuesday that he will leave the city council because of a new job opportunity coming up in the new year.…
The Gulfport City Council will hold a special meeting today at 1:30 p.m. to review and adopt the 2024 Community Development Block Grant plan. The grant comes from the United States Department of Housing and Development and will provide suitable…
The Gulfport City Council voted Friday to approve new precincts for future city elections ahead of a looming deadline. The city faced a July 31st deadline to get…
Big changes could be coming to the City of Gulfport in the future. The United States Department of Housing and Development has announced that Gulfport will receive a 2024 CDBG Entitlement allocation…
Gulfport locals are appealing the city council's decision to grant a zoning variance for the development of a cold storage facility similar to…
The Gulfport city council voted unanimously to name Wayne Miller chief administrative officer. Leonard Papania will be retiring from the position at the end of the year. Wayne Miller grew up in Harrison County…
Gulfport City Council members met to discuss multiple issues yesterday, including the adoption of an agreement for the city’s promenade project. The Interlocal Cooperation Agreement passed unanimously. The agreement…
Gulfport City Council has amended its international property maintenance code to include language that prohibits parking on grass. Councilman R. Lee Flowers says when the council updated…
Almost at full capacity, Gulfport community leaders and residents packed city hall to hear from city council on their decision to redistrict the city. City hall erupts…
As the City of Gulfport continues to grow, the time has come to redraw the ward lines which could impact residents for the next ten years. The City of Gulfport…
The City of Gulfport must redraw its ward lines after a population shift over the last ten years. Several plans have been brought forward. The 2020 Census found that about…
Republican Incumbent, Gulfport Mayor Billy Hewes, won the majority of the Primary vote on Tuesday, and will face Democrat Howard Page in the race for mayor June 8th. Hewes's challengers, Jennifer Adams, came in with 26-percent of…
Wednesday evening, the Gulfport City Council held a public hearing on the proposed Community Development Block Grant amendment. The City of Gulfport recently released its proposed community development block grants budget where the city hopes to reallocate unused CDBG funding…
Tonight a special city council meeting was called to discuss a new Sportsplex as well as expansions to the existing complex in Gulfport. The new proposed 250 acre Sportsplex will be located south of Interstate 10 with a focus on…
An aviation museum that is coming to Gulfport is one step closer to completion. The board for the museum went in front of the Gulfport City Council to ask for an extension to complete upgrades which are required by contract…
The hefty number of Gulfport police officers set to retire has some city officials worried. In the next few years, 43 Gulfport police officers become eligible to retire and according to officials that means over 1,000 years of experience. City…