Portsmouth’s Umoja Festival is BACK! The 2022 Umoja Festival will be held Friday, May 27 – Sunday, May 29, in Festival Park. Bring the whole family and enjoy amazing food, live music, extraordinary crafts and art, and market-style shopping. Read on...

Hurricane season begins June 1. To assist you and your family in getting prepared, we posted the VDEM Emergency Preparedness Handbook on the website in the left navbar. Click on the link below for the Virginia Hurricane Evacuation Guide. Get ready. Additional Info...

AlertSense allows the city to issue important notifications, in addition to routine communications to citizens who subscribe to receive the messages via email, text message, and /or voicemail alerts. Additional Info...