Mardi Gras revelers got a jump on the season at the 2023 Mainland Mardi Gras Parade in Texas City.
Pups of all shapes and sizes, along with their faithful owners were on hand to officially open the new East Side Dog Park at Hometown Heroes Park in League City on Saturday.
Chief Doug Balli of the Galveston Police Department has been placed on a 10-day paid administrative leave over failure to inform the city's civilian administrators about a questionable SWAT raid.
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Reedy Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church was one of 35 historic Black churches to receive a piece of a $4 million grant to preserve places of worship.
Galveston Mayor Craig Brown said he learned about the Sunday raid, which injured and terrified an island family and left their home wrecked, by reading the newspaper Friday.
The city is installing 42 automated license plate readers, 12 in the city and 30 on Texas Department of Transportation rights-of-way.
In Hitchcock ISD, 415, 52 percent, of 798 people voted in favor of the school bond, according to complete but unofficial results.
The 15-year-old who made a bomb threat was arrested and taken to a juvenile detention center.
The Galveston County Sheriff’s office received a teletype from Clark County, Nevada, asserting Jason Tabor was wanted on a charge of "insufficient funds," Sheriff Henry Trochesset said.
The vote came amid a clear message from residents and business leaders that the city and Park Board of Trustees had to find a way to work together productively and to do nothing that would threaten the island's booming tourism industry.
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The Galveston Police Department argues the SWAT team was only following its training when it raided a house in the 5300 block of Avenue O, shattering windows with "flashbang" devices, kicking in doors and ripping out wires.
The documents pertain to the way a Dec. 14 incident involving a man who was having a mental health crisis was handled at city hall.
Michael Alegria, 38, was found guilty Wednesday morning by a jury in the 10th District Court in Galveston, prosecutors said.
The Texas City Fire Department arrived about 3 p.m. at the Gatsby Condominiums in the 7600 block of Emmett F. Lowry Expressway.
The Texas City Fire Department received a call about a house fire about 2:30 p.m. in the 300 block of 12th Avenue North.
Armando Batista, 39, of Sugar Land, is charged with murder in connection with stabbing death of Albert Titov and held at the Galveston County Jail under a $250,000 bond, police said.
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Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid drug mass produced by two main Mexican Cartels known as the Sinaloa and the CJNG.
The board instructed its finance director to draft an amended procurement policy and present that document for deliberation at a future meeting.
Legalizing the strips would allow drug users to ensure that fentanyl has not been added to the drug they intend to use and prevent overdose.
The 2023 bond, which is a part of the college’s master plan called COMPASS 2025, would cost taxpayers about $33 a year on homes valued at $100,000, the college said in an announcement released late Wednesday.
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