This week, the Galveston Park Board of Trustees voted unanimously to spend $750,000 in tourism development funds to send the ...

GALVESTON, Texas -- Ahead of Juneteenth, Galveston, Texas, was recognized as being the original birthplace of the African American holiday. The City of Galveston hosted an event Friday that featured ...

Disaster struck Galveston, Texas, on Sept. 8, 1900. The devastating hurricane took thousands of lives, homes and businesses. Before the hurricane, in the late 1800s, Galveston was ranked as the Lone ...

Galveston Historical Foundation opens the doors to Galveston’s incredible architectural history through public tours of privately owned homes during its annual Galveston Historic Homes Tour. The ...

HOUSTON – A fun guessing game turned into an interesting history lesson when a Galveston museum revealed the purpose behind bathing machines used in the during the Georgian or Victorian eras.

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- It's the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth, and Galveston celebrated their rich history at the very place it began. ABC13 brought you a first-hand view of the 41st Annual Al ...

GALVESTON — This island city has produced its share of magnificent, if flawed philanthropists. Consider the Moody family, which made its money in cotton, media, hotels, insurance and banking. Although ...

Brown water or blue, Galveston's beaches are so firmly fixed in the public's imagination that most folks don't realize ...

GALVESTON - Throughout her childhood, Izola Collins saw her grandfather, Ralph Albert Scull, sitting at his bedroom desk each evening, carefully writing in a green composition tablet like the ones ...

More than a century ago, this busy Gulf Coast port and longtime vacation destination 50 miles southeast of Houston welcomed so many European immigrants – including some 10,000 Jews – it earned the ...

Jack Johnson Park in Galveston is named after the first Black heavyweight champion in boxing, who was born on the island. Galveston is home to Texas' first high school for Black students and its first ...