Inside look at the new Mississippi Aquarium
15 years ago was one of the most detrimental days in not only this country’s history but in Mississippi’s history. Hurricane Katrina virtually destroyed the...
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Mississippi Power featured in one of the bestselling business books
A Mississippi company’s response after Hurricane Katrina is being highlighted in a 30th anniversary edition of one of the bestselling nonfiction business books in history....
Mississippi Remembers Hurricane Katrina
by Alex Paton
The Mississippi Gulf Coast was devastated 13 years ago when a Catagory 3 storm made landfall in Mississippi and Louisiana. The storm was upgraded to...
$7 million grant helping schools hit by Katrina
U.S. Senators Roger Wicker & Cindy Hyde-Smith, and Representative Steven Palazzo have announced the award of $6,976,600 to the Harrison County School District to complete...
Center for Emergency Services to get new home
by Alex Paton
When Hurricane Katrina slammed the Gulf Coast in 2005, Mississippi emergency responders had no idea of the challenges they would face to deliver medical care,...
Featured USM opens marine education center in Ocean Springs
by Alex Paton
The University of Southern Mississippi celebrated the opening of the new $16.1-million Marine Education Center (MEC) Monday with a dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony at the...
Featured Ingalls Shipbuilding to rebuild original facility damaged by Hurricane Katrina
by Alex Paton
Ingalls Shipbuilding will be reactivating its shipbuilding facilities on the east bank of the Pascagoula River. The site of the original Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. was...
Biloxi based disaster relief organization gearing up to help TX and LA
by Alex Paton
New Life Disaster Relief, out of Biloxi is working to help victims of Hurricane Harvey. Ken Wetzel, founder and volunteer director of New Life Disaster...
12 Years Later: Katrina exposes worst of nature, best of humanity
JACKSON, MISS– When the Mississippi Gulf Coast was devastated by Hurricane Katrina 12 years ago, it disproved the theory that Camille prepared coast folks for such...
OIG recommends halting over $29M in grants for Mississippi Gulf Coast
JACKSON, MISS– A report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has called for the Federal Emergency Management Agency...