Mark MacLaughlin, a tow truck driver, swims in Dennis Dreyer Municipal Harbor to connect the front end of a Ford pickup truck to a tow hook on Friday, Sept. 6. The driver of the truck was loading a boat onto a trailer that was connected to his truck at the city marina, but the truck slipped into the water, according […]

Port Aransas city officials say they want to meet with Port of Corpus Christi officials to solve conflicts between the two entities over Harbor Island development issues. After the city imposed a temporary moratorium on development on the island, the port responded last week with a lawsuit. In a Sept. 4 letter to City Hall, the port accused the city […]

The cash registers were ringing, and the money was moving in Port Aransas this past summer, according to merchants. Factors included lots of good weather, a longer red snapper season and continued recovery from Hurricane Harvey, which struck in August 2017. The Family Center IGA grocery store did well, said Mike Hall, co-owner of the store. “From my perspective, we […]

Myra Peterson Brooks thought the house she took shelter in might stand up to the roaring hurricane outside, but she was wrong. The structure began rocking. Brooks ran outside. “The house gave one mad lurch and was instantly gone into the wind,” she later wrote in an account of the 1919 hurricane’s strike on Port Aransas. After the house was […]