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 ...

Galveston, Texas, stands as the unique birthplace of Juneteenth, where on June 19, 1865, freedom reached the final enslaved individuals in the United States. The city commemorates that legacy ...

One of the first places where the 1865 order freeing Texas slaves was read aloud, ... who will give a lecture entitled History of Juneteenth in Galveston at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Rosenberg ...

The Texas Surfing Museum, which opened in February 2025 in Galveston, honors the state's rich but often below-the-radar surfing subculture. Chron Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo Skip to main content ...

GALVESTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Amid ongoing audits and investigations, the Galveston Park Board says its CEO has suddenly resigned. Former CEO Kimberly Danesi submitted her resignation from the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Joe Biden will be attending a Juneteenth celebration at a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in Galveston, Texas. The former Democratic president’s ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation ...

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 ...

Joseph Grams last year sparked an all-out search along the Galveston coastline after making a false distress call to the Coast Guard. Man who faked drowning in Galveston ordered to pay $135,000 in ...

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 ...

GALVESTON COUNTY, Texas — A friend is remembering one of the victims in a double shooting on Bolivar Peninsula. The Galveston County Sheriff’s Office said a man and his daughter were shot and ...