Hurricane Ike News

A report released Thursday on last season's ice and wind storms says Kentucky's utilities should not spend billions of dollars burying electrical transmission lines to prevent future mass outages.

January's ice storm and the wind storm a few months earlier did more than $1.2 billion in damage in Kentucky, the Public Service Commission says in a new report.

Jack in the Box Inc. reports fourth quarter and fiscal year 2009 earnings; issues guidance for fiscal year 2010.

Alida and Tom Duggan are fighting contractors, their insurance company and the bank in a struggle to rebuild their home in Bayou Vista, destroyed by Hurricane Ike.

Kentucky is still picking up the tab for mother nature's fury during the wind and ice storms.

Nearly 400 tickets have been issued to people who can't seem to stay away from a Hurricane Ike-damaged dike in Texas City.

A state official says remnants from a hurricane last fall and a massive ice storm earlier this year caused more than $1.2 billion in damages in Kentucky.

Texas has 45 days to rework its plan to spend the second round of $1.7 billion in Hurricane Ike federal recovery funds after the Department of Housing and Urban Development said the state did not provide enough chances for residents to comment on using disaster money on housing and infrastructure.

Hotwire.com , a leading discount travel site, today announced the results of the November 2009 Hotwire Hotel Rate Report.

Fifteen months ago, Paul Ray and Donna Heinrich had a view of the water from the porch of their house in Gilchrist.

In the months after Hurricane Ike, cleanup and rebuilding booms helped fill restaurants and hotels and put buyers in stores, shielding the island's economy from a population plunge and a national recession.

Southeast Texans displaced by Hurricane Ike who are still living in federally-provided mobile home units have just four months to find alternative housing.

The Galveston Alliance of Island Neighborhoods has released its own plan for rebuilding the city's public housing.

The state law preventing price gouging kicked in Wednesday night when Gov. Timothy M. Kaine declared a state of emergency during the storm.

The tree population on Galveston Island took a big hit from Hurricane Ike. The winds destroyed many, but the storm surge also brought in too much saltwater, killing many trees long after the storms landfall.

A group opposed to plans to rebuild public housing demolished after Hurricane Ike is forming its own redevelopment strategy.

A man who had relocated to Central Texas after Hurricane Ike was in the Hill County Jail Monday, charged in the murder of a Valley Mills woman.

One year after island voters approved the 20-year extension of the half-cent 4B sales tax, the city council has yet to spend any of the funds.

The man arrested Saturday in the shooting death of a Valley Mills woman in Hill County is a Bay City, Texas, transient who had relocated to Central Texas in advance of Hurricane Ike.

HOUSTON Hurricane Ike hit our area more than one year ago, but the impact has prompted the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston to make big changes.