CALHOUN COUNTY

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.

A $110,000 grant was recently awarded to researchers for an independent review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ plans to widen and deepen the Matagorda Ship Channel — a project that has triggered environmental and economic concerns among many local residents.

SEADRIFT — A heavy rain event in May turned Jim Nephew’s property on the west side of town into a retention pond.

Cuero didn’t run out of water during the freeze in February, but it came close.

A Yorktown man has been identified as the victim of a boat crash that occurred in Port O’Connor Sunday night.

Authorities have identified a man found dead near Port O’Connor after a Sunday night boat crash, authorities said Tuesday.

A man died after a boat struck a jetty off Port O’Connor late Sunday night.

The Coast Guard rescued six boaters from the water after their vessel capsized Friday morning 8 miles offshore Port O’Connor, according to a news release.

GREEN LAKE — About 13 miles southwest of Port Lavaca, a small land mass on one of the largest natural freshwater lakes in Texas is in critical need of repair.

Multiple game rooms were searched and at least 12 people were arrested on illegal gambling charges during a multiagency operation that spanned four counties, authorities in the region said Thursday.

POINT COMFORT — Pre-dredge sampling and analysis for the project to widen and deepen the Matagorda Ship Channel will start within the next few weeks, the Calhoun Port Authority said Tuesday.

PORT O’CONNOR — Watery eyes and well wishes filled the parking lot as service members parted ways Sunday morning, but not for the final time.