Hurricane Ike News

East Beach is one of the biggest beaches in Texas, and was destroyed when Hurricane Ike hit the Gulf Coast in 2008.

Leaders of a Southeast Texas city will meet Tuesday to discuss legal options over a newspaper story about where to build new public housing since Hurricane Ike.

During a hurricane, the storm surge poses the greatest threat to life and land, yet many people don't even know what it means.

During a hurricane, the storm surge poses the greatest threat to life and land, yet many people don't even know what it means.

It's difficult to fathom what it must be like the moment you realize the world as you knew it no longer exists - a moment experienced so many times in the wake of the deadly tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma.

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With the destruction of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and more recently Hurricane Ike in 2008, New Orleans has suffered severe damage.

I've always loved Galveston, and now I have a local connection. My boyfriend's grandmother, Alba Collins, grew up in a tiny house underneath the island's first wooden rollercoaster in the 1930s.

Sen. Larry Taylor, R-Friendswood, is blaming Steve Mostyn, the Houston attorney and Democratic mega-donor who in many ways has become the face of windstorm litigation since Hurricane Ike, as the primary reason Taylor's Senate Bill 1700 is dead.

September 13, 2008 is an unpleasant memory for homeowners along the Gulf Coast. In the overnight hours, Hurricane Ike, knocked on Bolivar Peninsula's door at 110 miles per hour.

His home, built in 1961, is so structurally unsound that is no longer safe for him to go inside.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in effect until 2 p.m. for Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston, Grimes, Harris, Jackson, Liberty, Matagorda, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto, Walker, Waller, Washington and Wharton counties.

It's been almost five years since the north and south levees on Pleasure Island have had fishing piers, and the absence is causing headaches for fishermen like Ronnie Moon.

After undergoing a $1.6 million reconstruction, Galveston's East Beach will unveil a new pavilion, boardwalk and entertainment stage Memorial Day weekend during a grand re-opening celebration.

Galveston Fire Chief Jeff Smith on Monday announced his retirement after heading the department for three years.

"It's what I do," he said of his 28-year-career in Joliet as a civil/environmental engineer who specializes in wastewater treatment.

At more than 40 years old the Lake Charles Civic Center has no doubt seen better days, especially the Rosa Hart Theatre.

You were recently in Washington, D.C. speaking at the Renewable Natural Resources Foundation on improving the resiliency of our coasts in an effort to protect them from increasingly damaging storms and sea-level rise brought on by climate change.

A Houston-area city has been trying to produce records showing how $2 million in federal recovery money was spent after 2008's Hurricane Ike.

From his 18th-floor law office, Buddy Herz, the head of the Galveston Housing Authority and a lifelong resident of this city, can point out how his view has changed since Hurricane Ike slammed into the island in 2008.