Tiki Island News

Colin Boone during his first Halloween. He is the great-grandson of John H. and Juanita Large of Abilene, his grandparents are Douglas and Dr.

One person was killed and at least two injured after an explosion at the Valero refinery in Texas City on Friday night.

An apparent domestic dispute turned deadly Tuesday in what could be this island community's first homicide in more than a decade, authorities said.

A Tiki Island man burdened by financial problems, including the impending loss of his home, shot his wife to death and confronted police with a pistol in hopes that they would kill him, a Galveston County sheriff's officer said Tuesday.

UPDATE: The owner of the waterlogged Bugatti was identified by police on Friday as Andy House of Lufkin.

Galveston County Sheriff's Detectives are investigating an early morning shooting in Tiki Island that left a woman dead and her husband charged with her murder.

It's four months before Democratic and Republican primaries and already candidates are lining up for the 2010 county elections.

This was the motorcycle rally everyone expected. Galveston was home to the largest collection of Harleys, choppers, speed bikes and tri-wheeled cruisers this side of the Red River on Saturday for the return of the Lone Star Rally.

It's a bad time for a tax increase, but city officials have made a convincing case that Santa Fe residents should invest in public buildings.

Investigators with the DeSoto Parish, Louisiana Sheriff's Office are looking for a Texas ex-convict whose last known address was in Tiki Island in Galveston County.

AT 1252 PM CDT...National Weather Service Radar indicated a strong line of thunderstorms, producing high winds in excess of 34-knots from Tiki Island to 8 miles east of Freeport.

Aldermen in Tiki Island are expected to approve a $790,000 spending plan that includes a tax rate hike.

Hurricane Ike was the perfect, bad-timing storm. When it blew hell on this Gulf of Mexico county on Sept.

Despite a huge decrease in property values, a sluggish economy, a tax rate increase to fund health care and struggles to recover from Hurricane Ike, the county's credit rating still is pretty good.

A passing boater stopped and attempted to pull it off the sandbar on which is was lodged but without success.

After a lot of hand wringing, the Santa Fe City Council this week approved putting three bond proposals on the November ballot.

A Tiki Island man claims workers started roof repairs on his house by mistake while he was out of town, and then left his home exposed to the elements when they learned of their erro.

Officials are investigating how as much as 30 gallons of gasoline ended up in the city's waste water treatment plant Sunday night.

Officials are investigating how as much as 30 gallons of gasoline ended up in the city's waste water treatment plant Sunday night.

As relatives mourn a woman killed in a Friday collision, they want to know what medical condition afflicted a 66-year-old police said caused the crash.