June 19, 1865---It's the day freedom came to Texas and the birth of Juneteenth. Major General Gordon Granger and thousands of Union soldiers would arrive on the coast of Galveston with news that ...

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GALVESTON, Texas – A Houston teenage boy has died and a teenage girl has been hospitalized after they went missing while swimming at Galveston beach on early Tuesday morning, according to ...

Hurricane Ike, which rammed the Texas Coast in 2008 and caused more than $43 billion in damage with a deadly storm surge that killed 112 people, spurred action. 2017’s Hurricane Harvey, second ...

One of the first places where the 1865 order freeing Texas slaves was read aloud, ... Reedy Chapel AME was built in 1886 after a fire in Galveston's East End destroyed its previous home, ...

Nearly three years after Hurricane Ian ripped away a section of the historic Flagler Beach Pier, construction to rebuild it is finally set to begin this month.The project has faced repeated delays ...

Galveston, Texas, visitors may be shocked to see a murkier shade of Gulf of Mexico water, ... No matter where I went, whether it was Beach Haven, Ocean City or Wildwood, ...

But even if your childhood didn’t include visits to these oceanfront attractions, visiting them now feels akin to time travel ...

Reconstruction of the Flagler Beach Pier, damaged by Tropical Storm Ian in 2022, is set to begin within weeks after a three-year wait. The 18-month, $15 million project will replace the existing ...

GALVESTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The Gulf Coast Auto Crimes Task Force is investigating a Galveston autobody shop and car lot. Ventura Auto Sales is located at Broadway near 35th Street and is still ...

“Beach nourishment is critically important to our state,” Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham said in a statement. Beach nourishment projects can cost the state between $3 million and $45 ...

The bridge, which was built in the 1970s to span the Kanawha Canal and CSX-owned railroad tracks, has been closed since 2022 after officials deemed it structurally unsafe.