Hurricane Ike News

Reporting from Galveston, Texas - After trying out Pasadena, Atlanta and Miami, Lilian Junco decided this was the place to retire.

Galveston has so many stories. It's hard to see how they all could have happened on this 35-mile-long, 2-mile-wide Texas island.

The Golden Nugget is seen from the Fremont Street Experience. The board of directors for Landry's Restaurants, which owns the hotel-casino, on Tuesday accepted Chairman Tilman Fertitta's offer to acquire all of the company stock he didn't already own.

The state is not allocating enough money to poor- to moderate-income families to repair their hurricane-damaged houses, an Austin-based social justice advocacy group told the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development this week.

The Hartford Financial Services Group has reported a much narrower loss for the third quarter, as its investment losses shrank by more than half.

Galveston's Shriners Hospital for Children will reopen Wednesday, more than a year after it was damaged in Hurricane Ike.

Bob Baffert-trained 2-year-old Macias held off Hurricane Ike by a neck Saturday in the $60,413 Jack Goodman Stakes.

Sure, this year's Atlantic hurricane season has been slow with eight named storms, just two hurricanes and about $100,000 in damages to U.S. property.

A local cancer center the University of Texas Medical Branch shut down last year is open again at a new location.

Energy writer Elizabeth Souder, environmental writer Randy Lee Loftis and editorial writer Colleen McCain Nelson blog about energy, the environment and air quality issues in Texas.

A restaurant chain has announced plans to restore the Hurricane Ike-damaged Flagship Hotel in Galveston.

Moving Image Archive > NASA Images > Hurricane Ike Attacks the Gulf Coast on September 12, 2008 Hurricane Ike Attacks the Gulf Coast on September 12, 2008 NASA's TRMM spacecraft observed this view of Hurricane Ike on September 12, 2008 at 1035Z or 6:35 AM EST.

GALVETON, Texas - A restaurant chain has announced plans to restore the Hurricane Ike-damaged Flagship Hotel in Galveston.

Virginia Attorney General Bill Mims announced price gouging settlements with two gas stations late last week.

The debate over public housing in Galveston has turned ugly, with one side alleging racism and classism while the other characterizes public housing tenants as lazy or worse.

Easing economic conditions and government stimulus programs, including the first-time buyers tax credit, helped the number of properties sold in the Houston area in September climb 30 percent higher this year than last, a strong indication we may be closer to emerging from a multi-year glut.

Conservationists will be going door to door this winter battling to obliterate Chinese tallow and Brazilian pepper trees.

Carlos Pena, vice president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America , wrote an Oct.

City commissioners last week approved a $700,000 engineering contract that is the first step to rebuilding the Texas City Dike, which was heavily damaged by Hurricane Ike.

Before Hurricane Ike, Sidney Lampman rented the first floor of her sister's two-story house on West Hunter Drive in Old Bayou Vista.