Bayou Vista News

A Sugar Land man was arrested in a Jersey Village hotel Friday and charged with murder in the slaying of a man whose bludgeoned body was discovered this week in the back seat of a sport utility vehicle in Bayou ...

Investigators late Monday afternoon were questioning a man found wandering partially clothed and possibly drunk in the Bayou Vista neighborhood where a 27-year-old man was found beaten to death inside a sport ...

Galveston County investigators are questioning a man they said was found disoriented near a vehicle that had the body of a man who had been beaten to death Monday morning.

Investigators in this Galveston County town are questioning a shirtless, disoriented man discovered early today near a vehicle containing an unidentified body.

The easiest way to avoid fines up to $2,000 for shooting fireworks is to leave it to the pyrotechnic professionals, area officials said.

Ben Williams stands up on his own feet, helped by a physical therapy aid. He stood for the first time since the accident.

In its first step to improve sketchy ambulance service on the Bolivar Peninsula, the county funded three full-time medics to answer emergency calls there.

“The majority of the volunteers do not live here”

More than half of Bayou Vista's volunteer firefighters and the treasurer of its governing body resigned in protest of the board's decision to remove the city's fire chief from office, officials said Thursday. via KHOU-TV Houston

“The city failed to maintain the batteries”

A four-year gap in fire hydrant inspections has a city councilman figuring the plug nearest his home has a 50-50 chance of working if firefighters needed it. via The Galveston County Daily News

A fire Sunday afternoon turned a three-story home into a blackened, smoking skeleton of charred wood and melted siding. via KHOU-TV Houston

“It was my family inheritance. I grew up in this house and was raising my son in it. It's 45 years old. I couldn't afford insurance.”

As firefighters battled to save a La Marque woman's house Wednesday, the owner stood silently shivering in the cold wind with neighbors wondering whether anything, including her parents' ashes, could be ... via The Galveston County Daily News