The unprecedented discovery of coyotes carrying the DNA of nearly extinct red wolves has excited the island. But booming development, including a Jimmy Buffett–themed resort, threatens the animals.
He hung out with Langston Hughes and wrote verses inspired by his Galveston roots, but he’s largely been forgotten. A new biography seeks to change that.
With a massive great white shark’s recent record-setting trip to South Padre Island, an overfished (and fear-inducing) species is reclaiming its historic range.
The Galveston Railroad Museum — located at 2602 Santa Fe Place — is the island’s largest living history museum!
This “grown-up drill team” will strut and sparkle in five parades this month.
Hotel Lucine, a revitalized midcentury hotel, offers a welcoming (and millennial-friendly) mix of high and low.
Echoing a statewide trend, the team aims to prevent the tragedies that often result when armed police answer calls involving psychological emergencies.
Deacon Jeff Willard blesses seafarers with everything from prayers to rides around Galveston Island to cherry cigarillos.
The famously powerful dreadnought was hailed by Hemingway and played a key role in several famous battles.
Dayatra Myers runs Fish Company Taco in Galveston, where the menu items rotate based on the availability of the fish, which leads to fresh and creative options.
After washing up on the coast of Wales, she was nursed back to health, flown home to Texas, and then released in Galveston.
They’re colonies of tiny creatures that drift with the tides.
Here’s how to get a peek inside the glitziest, most charming homes in the state, all while helping raise money for preservation efforts.
A longtime Houston outdoor-sports writer looks back on sixty years of surfing the Gulf Coast.
The real history is much messier—and more inspiring.
From glamorous resorts to a repurposed storage tank, options abound.
Its fortunes ebb and flow, but the historic island is experiencing a renaissance, with new hotels and renovations and a shiny new cruise terminal.
Catch beads by the sea in Galveston, join the cowboy-themed festivities in Bandera, or watch a dog parade in McKinney.
Drill, baby, drill! But, uh, over there.
Locals kitted out in wizard robes to shop for wands, chocolate frogs, and Hogwarts-themed holiday ornaments.
It's a colossal floating city with an ice rink, a zip line, and even piped-in birdsong.
Kimberly Garza’s coastal debut, ‘The Last Karankawas,’ draws on her childhood memories of one of the city’s lesser-known ethnic enclaves.
“Your article may be an epitaph,” the then-president of the Houston Audubon Society told the writer.
With Texas’s annual Free Fishing Day, you can cast your line without all the red tape. No license required!
Organized crime! Illicit booze! The beach! In this exclusive excerpt from her new novel ‘Last Dance on the Starlight Pier,’ Sarah Bird explores Galveston at the end of the twenties, a setting she calls “a gift to a novelist.”
Galveston was once the Ellis Island of the South. But Jewish arrivals had to navigate a society marked by racial and religious politics.
With Republican incumbent Ken Paxton's legal troubles, Democrats have plenty of contenders this year.
From Leon Bridges’s home in Fort Worth to a vibrant coral reef near Galveston, this year took our photographers to some truly unforgettable places.
The latest from the director of ‘The Florida Project’ sees a scheming former porn star wash up along Texas’s Gulf Coast.
Federal agencies have long struggled to stop illegal fishing and drug smuggling in the Gulf of Mexico. In recent years, it’s only gotten worse.
Owners and employees of five haunted hotels describe their most unsettling encounters with less-than-corporeal guests.
The island's latest storm has no season.
The Bayou Vista food truck is back, with brisket kolaches, pork ribs that fall off the bone, and a local favorite known as the Cheese Champion.
Part historical text, part recipe book, ‘Lost Restaurants’ memorializes the self-made entrepreneurs who uplifted the island during its years of segregation.
Some of the healthiest coral communities in the world beckon off the Texas coast. Can unlikely allies save this undersea paradise?
Reginald Adams led the team that designed ‘Absolute Equality,’ a landmark mural marking the spot where slavery was abolished in Texas.
The February power outages were a deadly man-made disaster, but punishing those responsible may prove elusive.
Galveston’s Terry Fisher on where to find your water meter, what to do when pipes thaw, and when to call a professional.
Over Memorial Day weekend, locals and tourists flocked to the Poop Deck in Galveston as Governor Greg Abbott allowed Texas bars to open at limited capacity.
Images from across the state capture our eerily historic moment.
Plus, a barbecue event at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.
Lilly the capuchin monkey got loose following a burglary at home—and there are conflicting reports on her fate.
Austin-based novelist Amanda Eyre Ward discovers that sometimes, you need to go way, way out at sea to gaining a clearer perspective.
The coastal hot spot features a menu of midcentury island-time sippers, perfect for any time of the year.
The coastal hot spot features a menu of midcentury island-time sippers, perfect for any time of the year.
And there’s much on their menu now that Jim and Colleen Buchanan have taken over a beloved restaurant on the island.
Louis and Iris Moreno reopen a beloved, shuttered meat market serving barbacoa, tamales, and a full barbecue menu.
A New York Times reporter pushes back against xenophobia with an intimate portrait of a Galveston clan.
Everyone agrees that the recent event—full of drunken fights and scores of wrecks—escalated dangerously. But many Bolivar Peninsula residents will be damned if they’ll accept new rules to curtail the anarchy.
Long live the red wolf.
