Thanksgiving, and the holiday season in general, can be a sorrowful and lonely time for many, but artists in Galveston and a ...

GALVESTON, Texas – More than a century ago, this busy Gulf Coast port and longtime vacation destination 50 miles southeast of ...

Today, the few remaining descendants of Jewish immigrants from that time period still living on the island are determined to ...

When Stennie Meadours began birdwatching in the early 1980s, she went to Bolivar Flats — known as the place to see more than ...

Local officials and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan to raise the Port Arthur seawall by 5-6 feet to better protect ...

"This is exactly the attack I’d expect from a Republican," Johnson said in a debate over the weekend in Denton.

The State Department is deploying emergency teams to the Caribbean to help in the response to Hurricane Melissa, which has battered Jamaica and nearby island nations. “In response to catastrophic ...

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (AP) — Hurricane Melissa made landfall in eastern Cuba near the city of Chivirico early Wednesday as a Category 3 storm after pummeling Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — The McFaddin-Ward House Museum will present a lecture Thursday examining the 1900 Galveston hurricane, the deadliest natural disaster in United States history, followed by an ...

Ike Turner Jr., the son of rock pioneers Ike Turner and Tina Turner, died Oct. 4, of kidney failure at a Los Angeles hospital, his family confirmed in a statement. He was 67. His cousin Jacqueline ...

As Hurricane Rita barreled toward Houston in September 2005, millions of residents fled. They had seen victims stranded in New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina weeks earlier. They hoped to dodge a ...