GALVESTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Monday, Sept. 8th marked 125 years since a massive hurricane hit Galveston Island. The storm was equivalent to what would be a present-day Category 4 hurricane. To this day, ...

GALVESTON, Texas – A Guinness World Record title could be coming to Galveston Island. The title for world record is for a rather... quirky... reason. “We’re ...

Before the Great Storm of 1900 — which made its Texas landfall 125 years ago Monday — Galveston had become one of the busiest ports in North America with electric streetlights, grand hotels, and ...

Welcome to the Texas Canon, a series that dives into the movies, TV shows, books, albums and more that represent us and reach far beyond the Lone Star State's borders. Today, we look at Erik Larson's ...

It has been 125 years since Galveston Island was devastated by a hurricane. The scale of the event was so great that it continues to fascinate people to this day. Researcher Shelly Kelly presented the ...

The 1900 Storm Memorial by David Moore sits atop the Galveston Seawall. In 1900, Galveston experienced what is still considered the deadliest natural disaster in American history when a category 4 ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Meteorologist Matt Lanza explained how word spread about the storm at the time and its trajectory. Meteorologist Matt Lanza spoke about the September ...

In 1900, a 16-foot storm surge from a historic hurricane devastated Galveston. Now, 125 year later, the community wants to commemorate the thousands of victims and the enduring spirit of the city. To ...

Galveston, which went from one of the nation's most prosperous Southern ports to a waterlogged pile of ruins literally overnight, has been reckoning with the storm ever since. It gave Houston an ...