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The Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier hasn't been sold, Landry's Inc. confirmed Friday, dismissing a viral social media rumor that claimed Six Flags Over Texas had acquired the attraction.
The Galveston Wharves is launching a redesigned website on Tuesday. The streamlined site is developed to improve the user experience for our wide range of users, including cruise parking customers,
Four people ages 17 and 18, who reportedly were coworkers, visited the beach early Tuesday morning, according to the Galveston Island Beach Patrol, which said a 17-year-old boy died and an 18-year-old woman was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
A typical silk Hermès scarf designed by Kermit Oliver is 90 centimeters square. A perfect synthesis of art and fashion filtered through a Southwestern or Native American milieu, it can fetch hundreds or even thousands of dollars on the secondhand market.
Two 18-year-olds drowned off Galveston's Seawall; one dead and one in ICU. They swam in a prohibited area at night.
The funding is the largest federal investment received for the Galveston Harbor and entrance channel maintenance work, which will be especially helpful for ships that transport liquid petroleum products.
New congressional budget appropriations will provide the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with enough money to fund sorely needed dredging for the Port of Galveston, as well as a handful of other maritime projects in Southeast Texas.
A man died and a woman was taken to the hospital on Tuesday after they were pulled from the water in Galveston overnight.Galveston Beach Patrol officials said the 18-year-olds were pulled from the Gulf waters along Seawall Boulevard near 42nd Street on Monday.