A rare turtle hatching was discovered on Monday at Magnolia Beach near Matagorda Bay. Calhoun County maintenance workers and local scientists ensured that the hatchlings reached the bay's waters safely. 

While fishing with his father, Richard Garcia Jr. caught a leopard redfish, a rare fish with hundreds of dark spots along its body.

The derailed cars could be seen on Saturday twisted and warped like aluminum cans that had been torn in half. Mounds of coal littered the ground as if it were back at the mine.

A new birding deck in Victoria's Riverside Park is a perfect fit for the Crossroads, a region known for its immense avian biodiversity. The deck celebrated a grand opening on Saturday.

The Torres family took part in the city-wide Earth Day cleanup Saturday to help preserve the beauty of the city.

Emergency management officials and first responders from across the Crossroads gathered Thursday at the Victoria Community Center for the 2022 Mid Coast Hurricane and Disaster Conference. There they would hear how the state is providing additional resources to local emergency management officials to better prepare them for the next disaster.

The Port of Calhoun is preparing to move forward with widening and deepening the Matagorda Ship Channel, port director Charles Hausmann said.

Oyster workers pressed state wildlife commissioners to keep the oyster reefs open and after heavy lobbying that's what happened on Thursday. 

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission declined to permanently close Ayres, Carlos and Mesquite bays to commercial oyster harvesting.

The Texas Zoo is keeping kids engaged in education this spring break through their camps and classes.

One-hundred-sixty community members helped clean up Silver City Saturday, officials said Tuesday.

PORT LAVACA — Shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday in Port Lavaca’s Bauer Exhibit Building, about 50 people including oystermen, Texas Parks and Wildlife biologists, sport fishermen and conservationists agreed that the oyster reefs in Mesquite, Ayres and Carlos bays are not well. They disagreed abo…

Editor's Note: The Advocate is republishing this story because the complete story did not appear in Sunday's print edition.

Editor’s Note: The Advocate is republishing this story because the complete story did not appear in Sunday’s print edition.

As soon as Hugo Osorno came to the U.S. from Mexico, he was on the water, working with oysters.

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.

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.

ROCKPORT — As the sun set behind him, Capt. James Parbst stood with a handful of others at the St. Charles Bay boat launch Thursday evening, waiting for their customers to arrive. Friends for years, they passed the time inspecting each other’s boats, bemoaning the lack of some supplies on st…

If you’ve frequented popular fish cleaning stations in Calhoun County in recent weeks, there is a good chance you were approached by friendly researchers asking to sample your catch.

As a boy, Bard Letsinger spent afternoons sitting on his grandfather’s back porch in northern Louisiana, watching hummingbirds flutter about.

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.

Formosa Plastics Corp. has agreed to pay $2.85 million for violating the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

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.

Capt. David Adrian, presiding officer at Matagorda Bay Pilots, spoke on the expansion of the Matagorda Ship Channel at the weekly Victoria partnership meeting, organized by the Victoria Economic Development Corporation.

REFUGIO — It took 1,438 days after Hurricane Harvey destroyed Refugio’s fire station to build a new one. Fire Chief Ronnie Williams was counting.

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.

At the back of the Texas Zoo, Spirit and Carmen spend much of their day hiding from guests and zoo staff.

Victoria County Commissioners unanimously approved a partial tax abatement for Zinc Resources at Monday’s meeting, despite some residents’ concerns.

The recreational season for one of the Gulf’s most valuable and most regulated fish is coming to a close in federal waters off the Texas coast.

Anglers visiting the charming seaside town of Fulton took in the last of daylight on a recent afternoon as they cast their lines off the newly reopened Fulton Fishing Pier.

Nearly two years after a gas well blowout forced residents to evacuate their homes in rural DeWitt County, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has proposed fining the well owner $97,500 for air pollution.

PLACEDO — Last Thursday, Tanya Enriquez watched as a week’s worth of rain turned her yard into a small pond. Along with a half dozen neighbors, Enriquez lives in small valley sandwiched between the railroad tracks behind her and U.S. 87 in front. It doesn’t take much rain to fill her yard wi…

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality approved fines at its Wednesday meeting for environmental violations at local facilities, including an oil and gas operation in Lavaca County and two wastewater treatment plants in Victoria County.

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.

POINT COMFORT — The Calhoun Port Authority entered into a binding agreement with Max Midstream Texas on Wednesday for funding of the Matagorda Ship Channel expansion project.

EDNA — Friday marked the third time this year Terrilyn Turner and her husband woke up to 3-4 inches of water in their home.