In 2008, Hurricane Ike, a Category 2 hurricane, hit Galveston with 110 mph winds. After the storm passed, the city's largest health care provider reported treating only 16 patients for relatively ...

Shortly after Hurricane Ike made landfall in Galveston in September 2008, economist Patrick Jankowski was in his front yard with a saw, listening to NPR on a transistor radio while he cleared branches ...

The Port of Galveston, Texas, which suffered extensive damage following Hurricane Ike in 2008, filed a lawsuit against York and three other insurers. Both the storm and the resulting insurance ...

The National Hurricane Center released their post-storm report on Hurricane Beryl late last week, bumping its landfall ...

Texas' Port of Galveston almost filed for bankruptcy in the 1990s. Its CEO credits the booming cruise industry for saving the ...

Katrina Marquez, a 2008 Falls High School graduate, joined Americorps in October. She has helped hurricane victims in Texas, Alabama, New Orleans, and is now in Mississippi. Marquez was trained at ...

The Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier is ... but in 1961 Hurricane Carla completely destroyed it; later in 2008, Hurricane Ike severely damaged it too, and in 2017 Hurricane Harvey battered ...

Galveston expects to accommodate 419 cruises ... the slips have become too small for today's larger cargo ships and were damaged by Hurricane Ike in 2008. To address this, the port is now using ...