The beach-quality sand is dredged up from the Galveston Ship Channel by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District ...

Last week, the Texas General Land Office announced that its partner agency, the Gulf Coast Protection District, has awarded design contracts for the Coastal Texas Project's initial two components: a ...

Texas's Gulf Coast Protection District awarded contracts for designing the "Ike Dike" hurricane defense system's gates and ...

The district charged with overseeing the construction of a massive set of gates across the mouth of Galveston Bay — known as ...

Seventeen years after Hurricane Ike devastated Galveston, a project to protect the island has taken a major step forward.

Not all of Galveston Island is full of packed beaches and spring breakers -- this small community is calm, beautiful, and ...

Visitors to Galveston's historic downtown Saturday were transported back to the time of Charles Dickens' Victorian-era England at the annual Dickens on The Strand festival.

A marina in Seabrook lies in disarray after Hurricane Alicia devastated the Houston area during the otherwise "quiet" ...

(The Center Square) – Thanksgiving, and the holiday season in general, can be a sorrowful and lonely time for many, but artists in Galveston and a faith community have a message of hope from small ...

Flooding and damaged buildings are seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa in Lacovia, St Elizabeth, Jamaica, on October 31, 2025. RICARDO MAKYN AFP via Getty Images Jamaica is seeing an outbreak ...

When Port St. Lucie-based fashion designer Kallee Jackson saw Hurricane Melissa heading toward her home country, she geared up to help Jamaica after the storm. Before the Category 5 hurricane hit, ...

KINGSTON – Jamaica has declared an outbreak of the bacterial disease leptospirosis, suspected of causing six deaths, following the devastation from Hurricane Melissa in late October. The Category 5 ...