As the 2025–26 school year begins, Texas students are facing a major lifestyle change: a statewide ban on personal communication devices during the school day. House Bill 1481, signed into ...

Tidehaven pulled away from Goliad in the second half Friday to remain unbeaten in the young high school football season.

Braden Jones returned the opening kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown and Bay City was in control thereafter, knocking off Edna, 42-14, last Friday for the Blackcats’ first triumph of ...

The second special session of the Texas Legislature ended last Thursday with a new congressional map, flood relief and safety measures but a stalemate on whether to ban or regulate ...

What was supposed to be the long-awaited start of the capital murder trial for Fernando Colin Acosta Jr. has once again been postponed, extending an already years-long ...

Laughter will take center stage Friday, Sept. 20, when Movie Bowl Grille hosts its next Comedy Night featuring three standout ...

Matagorda — both the county and its early port town — sits between the Gulf of Mexico and the lower Colorado River.

A town long recognized for its ties to the Gulf of Mexico will once again place seafood at the heart of its community ...

Water is the most important resource in Texas that’s why the Coastal Plains Groundwater Conservation District is asking you to conservation and protect the water in Matagorda County.

Trying to keep pace with formidable foes often means playing a juggernaut of a schedule. That’s the approach of Cynthia Clark ...

Life has a way of pulling us in a hundred different directions. Work deadlines, family responsibilities, social commitments, ...

One of the most interesting topics discussed in my Ornithology class was about the “con artists” found in nature… Brood ...