Both travelers and coastal residents will see improvements to popular Texas beaches and dunes, which will be a boon to ...

Estimated to cost $7 billion, the Galveston Bay Park Plan is a new storm surge defense plan that aims to protect the Greater ...

The projects by a group at Rice University is designed to complement the Ike Dike to help protect people along the Gulf Coast ...

A major hurricane could shut down one of the country’s largest energy and petrochemical hubs. But a decadeslong effort to ...

Sarah Alegre joins Fox 13 from Galveston, TX, to explain the upcoming Galveston Bay Park plan that would construct a 25 foot ...

As the Gulf Coast braces for another hurricane season, having knowledge of different procedures and plans is crucial to ...

Hurricane season just started in the Atlantic and even though it's quite for now coastal communities aren't taking chances.

All three of these storms produced at least 10′ of storm surge along the Texas coast. Hurricane Ike produced some of the costliest damage around the Galveston area Ike took a very similar path ...

SAN LEON, Texas (KTRK) -- As Tropical Storm Beryl barrels toward the Texas coast, businesses up and down Galveston Bay are ... in four hours after a storm surge. So we're ready for it.

"Storm surge" is defined as the abnormal water level that rises above the typical tide during a tropical event.