After a day-long pounding, Hurricane Ike finally slammed into Galveston about 2:35 a.m. He’s alive and packing a punch. The brutal beast of a storm roared into Southeast Texas packing winds of ...

Hurricane Ike violated the state's Dune Protection Act. The law prohibits damaging, destroying or removing a sand dune. When Ike swept the Texas Coast on Sept. 13, it obliterated dunes and erased ...

With a pricetag of $11.4 billion, the storm is the most expensive in Texas history. About 75 percent of the homes on Galveston sustained some damage and blue tarps cover 11,000 roofs for 100 miles ...

College officials in Houston, Galveston, Beaumont, and other parts of the Gulf Coast spent the weekend slogging through flooded and debris-strewn campuses, trying to assess how much damage ...

And then there are the 37 found dead so far in Texas and hundreds still unaccounted for one month after Hurricane Ike barreled ashore on Galveston Island, leveling trees onto power lines and ...

HOUSTON — Cars and trucks streamed inland and chemical companies buttoned up their plants Thursday as a gigantic Hurricane Ike took aim at the heart of the U.S. refining industry ...

More than 1,500 Hurricane Ike evacuees are still sleeping on cots at 14 area shelters despite a federal program that was supposed to transition them into hotels and motels.

The City of Beaumont is taking suggestions on how it should spend $18 million it hopes to receive from the federal government. The city held the first of two meetings M Skip Navigation ...

A group of five area firefighters packed suitcases alongside construction tools and chain saws Friday night and departed on an 18-hour drive to Beaumont, Texas, where they will work with ...

NEW YORK, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil said on Tuesday that repairs to its 348,000 bpd Beaumont, Tx refinery following damage after Hurricane Ike are nearing completion.