CALHOUN COUNTY

A 23-year-old man was killed Thursday morning after a shooting that police think was accidental.

PORT LAVACA — The Boujee on the Bay Farmer’s Market in Port Lavaca bustled with activity Sunday.

After last year’s event was canceled, Port Lavaca will host the 18th annual Tree of Angels ceremony in remembrance of victims of violent crime on Dec. 11.

POINT COMFORT — On Thursday afternoon, Seadrift environmental activist Diane Wilson rummaged in the mud along the banks of Cox Creek in Point Comfort and dug up a handful of dirt sprinkled with small plastic pellets.

At least a dozen scrapbooks were spread out in 86-year-old Connie Ramirez’s bedroom. It was just a fraction of the 32 books she’s currently working on for student athletes from Port Lavaca’s Calhoun High School, and an even smaller portion of the 89 books she’ll have completed by the end of …

Local advocates asked a key federal official Friday to conduct another study of the planned $1-billion expansion of the Matagorda ship channel after a review by researchers at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi found the Army Corps of Engineers underestimated the project’s potential environmental impact.

PORT LAVACA — A year and a half ago, Kelli Nevarez was teaching first graders at HJM Elementary School.

Riverside Park and roads on the southwest edge of downtown were flooded Monday as the Guadalupe River approached a crest of 30 feet for the first time since Hurricane Harvey.

PORT LAVACA — When Kim Tatum retired as an educator in 2012, she started seeking out ways to pass the time.

A Port O’Connor man died after his motorcycle struck a deer in Calhoun County Sunday evening.

One person was killed Sunday night when a motorcyclist hit a deer on SH 185 in Calhoun County, said Sgt. Ruben San Miguel of the Texas Department of Public Safety.

PORT O’CONNOR — Whitney Curry and her husband, Bryan, pulled up to the docks with a twisted 10-foot metal boat railing wedged along the side of their boat. Affixed to the railing was a charred beer keg that had been converted into a pit smoker.

PORT LAVACA — Most days after trawling the bays and channels around Port Lavaca and his hometown of Seadrift, Jose Martinez brings in about 200 to 300 pounds of shrimp, which the longtime fisherman said is barely enough to make a living.

Tropical Storm Nicholas, which briefly became a Category 1 hurricane before making landfall near Sargent, left most of Matagorda County without power Tuesday morning.

PORT LAVACA — The whirring of cordless drills filled the air in downtown Port Lavaca Monday morning as maintenance workers fastened boards across the doors and windows of local businesses.

POINT COMFORT — About 10 fishermen attended the Calhoun Port Authority’s public meeting on Wednesday morning to demonstrate their opposition to the planned dredging of the Matagorda Ship Channel.

A Seadrift man died after his motorcycle hit a pickup truck in Calhoun County Saturday evening.

PORT LAVACA — As the kids lined up to go, Ann Lerma practiced her flip-flop flinging technique.

PORT LAVACA — On Friday morning, as two respiratory therapists stood by a patient’s bedside in the ICU at Memorial Medical Center in Port Lavaca, nurse Maria Longoria dialed hospitals statewide in search for an open bed. For six days, the hospital had been trying to transfer the patient, who…

Joseph L. Galloway, a Refugio native who is well known as a foreign correspondent and co-author of a best-selling book that was turned into a critically-acclaimed 2002 film, died Wednesday at the age of 79 in Concord, N.C.

PORT LAVACA — As members of Zaylen Gonzalez’s family placed roses into the water and watched them drift away, his brother Noah Rodriguez, 6, held a giraffe stuffed animal tightly to his chest.

In the last opportunity for the public to comment on Max Midstream Texas’ application for an air permit, many attendees questioned the regulatory agency about the permitting process at a Tuesday hearing.

Soledad Carr is concerned with sending her son back to school with COVID-19 cases rising in Victoria.

WOOD HI — As heavy rains pelted Brian Adamek’s southeast Victoria County farm in May, and again in June, and again in July, he eventually lost track of how many inches had fallen.

PORT O’CONNOR — As his team members rigged bait to their hooks in preparation for their three-day voyage in search of marlin and sailfish, Brett Graham took a moment to take it all in.

PORT O’CONNOR — As 16 kids in kayaks clustered together in the shallows, RJ Shelly pointed toward a sandpiper wandering the shores of Boggy Bayou.