By Sherry Koonce, The Port Arthur News, Texas Jun. 18--Since its inception 20 years ago, local veterans have logged more than 90,000 hours maintaining Port Arthur's Veterans Memorial Park, and now they are looking for someone else to take responsibility for the facility.

By Mike D. Smith, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas May 11--The Port Neches Fire Department has hooked some big awards for Southeast Texas out of the grant money pool the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has made available six times in the past.

By Dan Wallach, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas Feb. 16--Huntsman Corp. intends to sell its domestic base chemicals and polymers business, including its Port Arthur plant, to Flint Hills Resources LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries Inc. of Wichita, Kan.

By Christine Rappleye, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas Feb. 6--PORT NECHES -- The cheering crowds and cannons celebrating touchdowns at the nearby Port Neches-Groves High School stadium during football games drew a young, curious Roy Esquivel to investigate.

By Christine Rappleye, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas Dec. 15--Texas Education Agency officials Thursday cleared more than a dozen Southeast Texas schools of any wrongdoing in an investigation into testing irregularities on the 2005 Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills test.