Hesseltine was born Dec. 10, 1833, in Bangor, Maine, to Peter Heald Hesseltine and Sarah Hamlin Snow Hesseltine. He attended ...

A 3-year-old Bay City girl is representing the community on a national stage after advancing to the final rounds of the ...

U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls voted Tuesday to advance a federal water infrastructure bill that includes a provision directing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to expedite a feasibility study for ...

Long before Bay City, Houston or Galveston appeared on maps, the upper Texas coast was home to Indigenous peoples whose lives were shaped by bays, rivers, prairies and seasonal movement. Among them ...

The Aquatics Center of Matagorda County is moving from planning to construction, with work scheduled to begin in July on what officials describe as the county’s first year-round public aquatics ...

Matagorda Regional Medical Center has earned the highest Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for the 2026 rating cycle. The hospital announced the ...

Two Tidehaven High School graduates are among nine area students selected to receive 2026 scholarships from the Young Family Foundation. The foundation announced $114,000 in scholarships for 2026 ...

Green DeWitt’s name does not tower over Texas history the way Stephen F. Austin’s does, but the map of early Texas still carries the shape of his ambition. He was born Feb. 12, 1787, in Lincoln County ...

Bay City High School is one of seven schools featured in an upcoming documentary about Texas’ UIL One-Act Play competition. The feature documentary, “One Act,” follows Texas public high school ...

Mark Lanier has spent much of his career in courtrooms where the numbers alone can make a case hard to ignore. Billions in product liability verdicts. Major pharmaceutical litigation. National opioid ...

Van Vleck will be among the teams competing at the 2026 Texas 7-on-7 State Tournament this summer after being listed as a Division III state qualifier by Dave Campbell’s Texas Football. The Leopards ...

Bay City ISD has named Cheryl Roberts as its new director of curriculum, instruction and accountability, bringing a longtime educator and district alumna back to the school system where her own ...