Children including 11-year-old Chloe Atwater, left, of North Padre Island, and Aubrey Bryer, 10, of Port Aransas got some sailing lessons in the pool at Port Aransas Community Park last week. The ‘Come Sail’ program was sponsored by the Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Department.

Folks enjoy some time with with dogs at I.B. Magee Jr. Beach Park in Port Aransas on a recent afternoon. The dogs were on leashes, in line with a city ordinance requiring dogs to be leashed in public areas.

A Buda man who encountered the flesh-eating bacterial virus known as vibrio was in Corpus Christi, not Port Aransas. The family was between miles markers 99 and 104, several miles south of Port Aransas, according to the man’s wife. La Shelle Ruiz said she did not see a city limits sign on the beach, so she thought they were still […]

Steve Johnson never has been more than a part-time resident of Port Aransas, and he never has been a fishing guide here, but he’s being named to Port Aransas Boatmen’s Hall of Fame. “I’m kind of surprised, not being from here, but moving here,” said Johnson, who splits his time between homes in Port Aransas and Duluth, Minnesota. “Being accepted […]