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Bring it! Household Hazardous Waste Event

It’s time to bring it! A phrase with two meanings for this event: bring it in and bring it on to make a change. The ‘Bring it! Household Hazardous Waste Event’ is put on by the Harrison County Beautification Commission…

Mississippi Power and Ocean Springs lighting up Front Beach

Mississippi Power will team up with the City of Ocean Springs to provide a maintenance proposal for the lights on Beach Boulevard. A special board of alderman meeting took place to declare a local emergency on Front Beach. There will…

Mississippi Power lighting up Front Beach

Mississippi Power is lighting the way for those who work and play in the Front Beach area in Ocean Springs, helping to ease safety concerns expressed to city leaders after a line of street lights along Front Beach went out.…

Temporary lights to be installed in Ocean Springs

Some safety concerns have come to light for some night joggers in Ocean Springs. A line of street lights on Front Beach Road in Ocean Springs have gone out. Tonight, at the Ocean Springs Broad of Alderman meeting, the city…

Mississippi Power ‘Day On’

Employees from Mississippi Power spent their day off giving back. The day of service is something that employees take part in each year on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This year, one group spent their morning at Our Daily…

Mississippi Power customers can expect to save more money

Mississippi Power customers can expect to save more money on their electric bill each month. Today, the Public Service Commission approved the company’s annual fuel filing, reducing the fuel portion of customer’s bills by three percent. According to Mississippi Power,…

Christmas Cardboard Recycling

The Harrison County Beautification Commission held their annual Christmas Cardboard Recycling event over the weekend. Partnered with Waste Management and Mississippi Power, Harrison County set up three separate locations where people could recycle their cardboard items. The Christmas holiday is…

Mississippi Power energy rates to decrease by $4 monthly

After making its annual fuel filing with the Mississippi Public Service Commission, customers of Mississippi Power could see a decrease of at least $4 per month on their energy bill beginning in February. If the filing is approved, lower natural…

Mississippi Power restoration efforts in Panama City

Mississippi Power’s one hundred person storm team continues to support sister utility Gulf Power’s restoration effort in Panama City following Hurricane Michael’s landfall. The crew started working on Thursday and so far they’ve replaced more than one hundred electricity poles…

Mississippi Power relief efforts

Mississippi Power crew members geared up to leave for Florida to help with relief efforts during Hurricane Michael. The company will send a hundred crew members to Pensacola. Members from Gulfport, Biloxi, Bay St. Louis, and Pascagoula will team up…

Mississippi Power helping with Hurricane Florence

Mississippi Power is on the way to assisting with relief efforts in the Carolinas. Ninety workers are on the road in preparation of Hurricane Florence. They’re staying in Georgia tonight, making sure their workers are staying safe.  After the hurricane…

Mississippi Power prepares for Gordon

Mississippi Power is closely monitoring the development and progress of Tropical Storm Gordon which is forecast to impact areas along the Gulf Coast. Jeff Shepard with Mississippi Power is in studio to tell us more about how customers can keep…

Mississippi Power prepares for Gordon

Mississippi Power is closely monitoring the development and progress of Tropical Storm Gordon. Jeff Shepard with Mississippi Power tells News 25 customers can use the company’s online outage tools to report an outage, monitor the status of an outage, or…

Mississippi Power Company raising rates

Mississippi Power customers will see electricity rates go up about nine percent starting in September. Today, the state public service commission approved general rate increases as well as specific increases tied to environmental compliance costs. The unit of Atlanta-based Southern…

Mississippi Power awards scholarships

They say knowledge is power and that’s just what Mississippi Power awarded to eight Gulf Coast and Pine Belt students today. Mississippi Power gives us more than just our electricity. They introduced the Heritage Scholarship Program in 2016, giving minority…

Mississippi Power volunteers give back on MLK Day

Volunteers from Mississippi Power decided to treat MLK Day as a day on instead of a day off. For many years, now the employees at Mississippi Power have spent MLK Day serving their community and this year was no different.…

Energy Saving Tips

News 25's Katarina Luketich interviews Bill Snyder from Mississippi Power about tips that can save you money.

Mississippi Power rate settlement

Regulators have reached a settlement with Mississippi Power Company on how much customers should pay for the $7.5 billion power plant once touted as the future of coal. The unit of Atlanta-based Southern Company is agreeing to lower the price…

Mississippi Power rate increase hearings

Hearings begin next week to set final rates for a $7.5 billion Mississippi Power plant. The Mississippi Public Service Commission says it won’t immediately impose a ruling concerning the Kemper County Plant if the issue isn’t settled at the hearing.…

Mississippi Power files for rate increase

Mississippi Power made two annual rate filings as required by the Mississippi Public Service Commission. The company is seeking a four percent increase in its pep filing and a 4.5 percent increase in fuel costs for a total of 8.5…

Mississippi Power crews to assist in Massachusetts

Mississippi Power knows all too well what it’s like to work during devastating storms. So, the power company is helping to assist in damage outside of our state. Nearly 90 linemen, engineers, and support personnel from across the company’s service…