The Texas Zoo has entered a new era as its new board members work to bring back live events.

Twenty Victoria County residents have filed comments with the state on the EAF dust recycling facility Zinc Resources wants to build at the Port of Victoria. The vast majority of those residents don’t want to see the project move forward.

King Fisher Beach could soon have more room to relax and play on as the result of a grant the Texas General Land Office allocated to Calhoun County.

Concerned Victoria County residents spoke out against the proposed Zinc Resources hazardous waste facility at Monday’s Commissioners Court meeting.

POINT COMFORT — More than a dozen environmental activists in kayaks kicked off from the shoreline and into Lavaca Bay Sunday morning as part of a demonstration against oil exports and plans to deepen and widen the Matagorda Ship Channel.

Two pairs of endangered whooping cranes were found nesting in southeast Texas for the first time in recent history.

A grassy knoll rises abruptly from the flat stretch of farmland southeast of Victoria. Visually, there’s nothing to suggest that hidden beneath the green swell is all the city’s trash since the landfill opened in the 1980s.

ROCKPORT — Andrew Oliver false cast back and forth in a rhythmic motion Tuesday morning before his fly hit the water.

REFUGIO — A new solar plant in Refugio County moved one step closer to construction on Tuesday.

A company that recently canceled plans to build an electric-arc, furnace-dust recycling facility in Live Oak County is now looking to build the $55-$60 million facility at the Port of Victoria.

POINT COMFORT—Diane Wilson parked her truck on the side of SH 35 Wednesday morning with a large sign that read “Stop the dredging. Stop the oil export” in black, bold letters.

LA WARD — The crustaceans were met with squirms and excitement.

Nearly 150 volunteers removed 1,203 abandoned crab traps from local bays during the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s annual 10-day cleanup period.

ROCKPORT — Two brown pelicans walked around a kiddie pool last Friday in a large outdoor enclosure at Wings Rescue Center. Another rested inside one of the rehab buildings on the wooded property, where he has been undergoing treatment for frostbite, worms and mites since March 1.

PORT LAVACA—The parking lot filled up early at the Calhoun County Extension Office Thursday evening.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Biologist Shannon Grubbs surveyed the sidewalk along a Victoria underpass, collecting dead bat carcasses in a black plastic bag.

PORT ALTO—At her home on the south side of Port Alto, Linda Busby has a manila folder of newspaper notices and records about a proposed RV park that has sparked a lot of concern in the rural, bayfront community.

Crews started on Wednesday a remedial cleaning process of Dry Creek in Victoria County, which was impacted by a red-dyed diesel spill last week.

Tests of some of the water wells in proximity of Dry Creek after a more than 16,000-gallon diesel spill show no impact, an emergency official said Friday.

Alfred Sierra, 75, and his wife Anita have lived on Old Goliad Road for three decades, but he said this week had been the busiest he has ever seen the rural Victoria County road.

PORT O’CONNOR — The sun was shining when Allan Berger and his wife, Brigid Berger, scanned the shorelines of Espiritu Santo Bay for deserted crab traps Monday morning.

Deer are not difficult to find roaming the more than 500 acres of Riverside Park in Victoria.

State officials said Monday they expect lengthy power outages to last into Tuesday due to insufficient electrical grid supply as a result of the extreme weather.

MATAGORDA — Capt. Terry Gallagher ran across the eastern most part of Matagorda Bay Thursday morning under the light of a nearly full moon.

POINT COMFORT — The water running through the faucets in Kayla Hall’s home on San Jacinto Street stains almost everything it touches.

Lawmakers filed dozens of bills ahead of the 87th Texas Legislature that could impact the state’s environment, including two that seek to create additional controls for methane emissions from oil and gas production.