Last weekend's devastating fire at the 168-year-old George Ball House on Galveston's 24th Street has shaken and saddened a city that reveres its time-tested buildings. Witness Galveston Historical ...

One of the more bizarre Galveston scandals in recent memory came to an end Thursday when a Kentucky woman pleaded guilty to a phishing scheme in which she defrauded the city out of two garbage trucks ...

Already on the rise, cases of norovirus and other infectious diseases common to cruise ships are likely to increase in the months ahead—a repercussion of the Centers for Disease Control eliminating ...

The days of fishing in the console for stray quarters when crossing the San Luis Pass bridge are numbered. Galveston County commissioners voted Monday to phase out the required $2 toll over the bridge ...

Sailing aboard the Elissa is a singular experience. It takes an astonishing amount of coordination and hard labor to run the esteemed 147-year-old tall ship, even just a few miles out to sea. People ...

Proposals before the Galveston ISD board of trustees could turn a closed elementary school into worker housing or a ...

Ranchers along the Gulf Coast have worked with federal and state agencies for decades to restore thousands of acres of coastal wetlands, to hunters' delight.

In Galveston, Wednesday was a great day to float a house down Offatts Bayou. But this wasn't just any house. Architecturally, the two-story structure might be called "mid-century Gulf Coast fishing ...

President Donald Trump's plan to impose widespread tariffs has thrown global financial markets into chaos and inspired rare pushback from the usually compliant Republican Party. The Gulf Coast's ...

Best known for helping stabilize North America's fragile whooping crane population, the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge is now perilously close to the endangered list itself. However, a group of ...

PETA, or the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is planning to send its "Hell On Wheels" truck to a Beaumont restaurant to encourage vegan lifestyles.

A new bill in the Texas Legislature could make it difficult for tourism-dependent cities like Galveston to collect revenue from short-term rentals listed through online platforms such as Airbnb and ...