Here's where you can legally light 4th of July fireworks in the Houston area including Cypress, Crosby and Channelview.

Where Galveston Island State Park is today, ... A map of South Galveston now at the Rosenberg Library shows more than 400 lots from the Gulf to the bay on a strip of land between 12 and 15 lots ...

With hurricane season well underway, it’s always important to check that beach conditions are safe before you go.

Make Music Day is a growing holiday of sorts, where people are invited to play music, host performances, or attend free music ...

Then, on June 14, get ready to celebrate with the Galveston Island Juneteenth Festival & Celebration. On June 15, the third annual Juneteenth Celebration will take place at the Grand 1894 Opera House.

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 will play host to any number of Juneteenth celebrations over the next week, both public and private, but it’s hard to imagine any will have more feeling or pure soul than the services ...

To travel from Galveston Island to the Port Bolivar peninsula – or to simply see the sights along the way, which is what most visitors seem to do – the ferry is the way to go.

The ambitious Coastal Texas Project aims to defend Galveston from severe storm surge. ... an approximately 2-mile-long closure structure between Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula. ...