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$66 Million in Closed Session
Wednesday at 5 PM, the Port Aransas City Council votes to consent to a $66 million hotel-and-convention center at Palmilla Beach Resort. The Master Development Agreement is being negotiated in closed session. Seven years ago, the same Council made a similar decision the same way — and the project was never built.
38,000 Photos Nobody Can See
Inside the Port Aransas Museum — a 1910 Sears kit house holding the island's institutional memory
A Town That Renamed Itself Twice
Ropesville to Tarpon to Port Aransas — three names in twenty-three years, each one reflecting what the island wanted to become
Built, Destroyed, Rebuilt
A history of every hurricane that hit Port Aransas — and the people who refused to leave
Coach's Island Grill
VerifiedSports bar dining with big screens and island-style eats
Ferry — Getting to Port Aransas
Free, 24/7, no reservation. Crossing takes ~10 minutes from Aransas Pass.
Hurricane Harvey — Port Aransas Aerial, 2017
Aerial view of Port Aransas after Hurricane Harvey. 100% of Port Aransas businesses were damaged. The building departmen
Neptune's Charters
VerifiedDolphin watch tours, sunset cruises & shrimp trawls since 1985
Nueces County Declares Local Drought Disaster
Reservoirs at 8.7 percent combined capacity. Stage 3 restrictions in force. Level 1 emergency projected for September. What today's declaration changes, and what it means for the island.
Pat Magee's Long Ride
From a rental shack at the dune line to a dozen stores across Texas, and the museum in Corpus Christi where the boards live now.
Port Aransas — A Tale of Two Islands
Tourism dashboards say the island is up. Main Street tells a different story — and the numbers, read carefully, agree.
Port Aransas Boat Dock, 2010
The boat dock at Port Aransas — where charter captains, commercial fishermen, and recreational boaters share the same wa
Port Aransas Fly Fishing
VerifiedSpecialized fly fishing guides on the flats — a different kind of Port A fishing
Port Aransas from Space — ISS, 2014
Port Aransas and the Intracoastal Waterway photographed from the International Space Station on February 21, 2014. The b
Stingray's
VerifiedSports bar with 20+ taps and brick oven pizza on Beach St
Stingray's
VerifiedSports bar, brick oven pizza & 20+ taps — corvettes hanging over the bar
The Ferry That Keeps the Island an Island
From a six-car side-wheeler to a state-run fleet moving millions — and why there's never been a bridge
The Island's Institutional Memory
Inside the Port Aransas Museum — from a Fresnel lens shipped from Paris to 1920s film footage nobody has digitized
The Red Snapper Fleet
How commercial fishing built Port Aransas — and how overfishing and regulation turned the island into a charter-fishing capital
The Tarpon Era
When Port Aransas was called Tarpon, Texas — and the Silver King ruled the coast
Three Dead in Five Days on the “Island Road”
Port A Local pulled ten years of state crash records for State Highway 361. Per mile driven, the island road produces fewer crashes than a typical Texas rural two-lane highway — and nearly twice the deaths. Every fatal crash on the corridor since 2016 is north of the only stretch TxDOT has funded.
VFW Post 8967
VerifiedPort A's VFW — open to the public, cold beer, and real community
We Were Asked What the Crash File Says About Darkness
Readers asked whether the ten-year record on State Highway 361 shows a day-and-night pattern. It does — a crash after dark on an unlit stretch is about four times as likely to kill as the same crash in daylight. Updated August 18 with the alcohol layer readers asked for next, including every fatal crash on the corridor since 2016 and why the public file undercounts impairment.