GAUTIER, Miss. -- Mississippi State University is partnering with Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College to offer engineering degrees at the Jackson County Campus. The agreement allows students to choose between two degrees in Gautier, and the schools are still...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. – The 692-foot Marjorie C hit the waters of Bayou Casotte with a mighty splash and hearty applause during a VT Bollinger launching ceremony Saturday morning. Marjorie C has the ability to carry 1,500 TEUs above and under deck, as well as vehicles and...

Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc., which owns shipyards in Pascagoula, Gulfport and Avondale, La., reported $100 million in second-quarter profits, up 75 percent from $57 million in the same period of 2013. The healthy quarter was boosted in part due to operating...

U.S. Sens. Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker, Rep. Steven Palazzo and Gov. Phil Bryant are asking the Obama Administration to expedite approval of project applications to export liquefied natural gas. The senators sent a letter to U.S. Department of Energy Secretary...

NATO says the fuselage of the first Global Hawk Block 40 unmanned aerial vehicle for the alliance has been completed by Northrop Grumman. The fuselage was completed at the company’s Moss Point, Miss., facility and its being transferred to California, where production...

ESCATAWPA, Miss. - More ships are in the works to be built here at VT Bollinger. The company announced that it has been awarded new contracts to build two tug barges for Brouchard Transportation Co., Inc. VT Bollinger officials say the work will bring about 40...

The Mississippi Gulf Coast’s Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula is ranked third on a list of the metro areas with the highest year-to-year growth in average wages, according to 24/7 Wall St. The list, compiled by authors Alexander Kent and Alexander E.M. Hess, looked at...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. – Chevron’s Pascagoula refinery's $1.4 billion premium base oil plant has begun commercial production. It’s expected to produce about 25,000 barrels per day of Group II premium base oil, which goes into automotive, industrial and process oils,...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. – Huntington Ingalls Industries announced today the successful completion of builder's sea trials for the company's fourth U.S. Coast Guard National Security Cutter, Hamilton (WMSL 753). The ship, built by HII's Ingalls Shipbuilding, spent three full...

Huntington Ingalls Inc., Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $23,499,948 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-13-C-2402) for early industry involvement associated with the LHA(R) Program Flight 1 (LHA 8) ship design to initiate...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Crowds gathered on both sides of the river to send off the Navy's newest amphibious assault ship Friday morning. America, LHA 6, set sail from Ingalls Shipbuilding at about 9:30 a.m. LHA 6, which can accommodate 1,059 crew and 1,687 Marines, is...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Mississippi Phosphates is consolidating all operations to its Pascagoula manufacturing facility and closing its administrative headquarters in Madison, Miss., company leaders announced Friday. The company, which employes more than 200 in...