Texas' Port of Galveston almost filed for bankruptcy in the 1990s. Its CEO credits the booming cruise industry for saving the port.

CenterPoint said a brief outage impacted about 3,000 customers on Galveston's West End, who eventually got their power restored.

A rare snow storm blanketed the Houston area and across Southeast Texas, and this included areas along the Texas Coast, like the beach in Galveston. The same system also brought snow into Louisiana, leaving cities like New Orleans with a coating of snow as well.

Galveston's Black lifeguards, who saved lives during segregation without credit, are soon to be honored through an Undertold Marker from the state.

An Extreme Cold Watch and Cold Weather Advisory are in effect for Coastal Galveston County and other parts of south-central and southeast Texas as

The Port of Galveston is seeing a cruise boom as the industry increasingly expands in Texas' only cruise port.

Houstonians, and most in the Gulf region stretching from Galveston to Lake Charles, Louisiana, woke up Tuesday with several inches of snow and subfreezing temperatures.

Bishop Joe S. Vásquez has been appointed the Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, replacing retiring Cardinal Daniel DiNardo. Pope Francis appointed Vásquez on Monday after he was appointed the fifth Bishop of Austin in 2010. Vásquez had been a priest for more than 40 years before being ordained a bishop in 2002.

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, who was made a cardinal in 2007 and who led the U.S. bishops’ conference as president from 2016–2019, turned 75 in May 2024.

Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba after President Donald Trump ordered it renamed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

For the Houston region’s Republican sheriffs, Donald Trump's mass deportation plans could be their chance to turn words into action.