High-Island News

From Galveston to League City, officials were bracing for up to 2 inches of snow today.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday delivered what amounts to eviction notices to two residents who have been living in government-issued mobile homes after Hurricane Ike damaged or destroyed their homes.

Guide Jim West reported excellent catches while wading, with limits of trout to six pounds on 51 MirrOlures, Catch 2000s and topwaters in East Bay.

WATERS FROM FREEPORT TO THE MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL 20 NM TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM FREEPORT TO THE MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM HIGH ISLAND TO FREEPORT 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM HIGH ISLAND TO FREEPORT OUT 20 NM-WHARTON- 629 AM CDT THU OCT 29 2009 DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A POTENT STORM SYSTEM WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE AREA TODAY.

Frank Kaplan hopes to be out of his government-issued mobile home and back into his own house in Galveston in time for Christmas.

WATERS FROM HIGH ISLAND TO FREEPORT OUT 20 NM- 606 AM CDT THU OCT 22 2009 .DAY ONE...THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON AN UPPER TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE AND ITS ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL TRAVEL ACROSS THE REGION LATE THIS MORNING AND INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON.

High winds pushed many anglers to protected shorelines and breaks along the channel.

To say that it's been a challenging year for the Bolivar Peninsula Special Utility District would be an understatement.

A year after Hurricane Ike wrecked much of the peninsula, The Galveston County Daily News is set to resume home delivery to much of the community.

From Entergy Texas - Beaumont, Texas Entergy Texas, Inc. has completed or is about to put into service major transmission system projects that represent recent investments of approximately $100 million in the electric transmission system that serves Southeast Texas.

Marsh redfish have been the ticket with higher tides on Stanley Ribbits. Fishing in the river has been good for trout, sand trout and redfish on shad and mullet.

They were forced out of their homes by Hurricane Ike, and now some High Island families living in temporary Federal Emergency Management Agency housing may be forced to move again, KPRC Local 2 reported Tuesday.

Some consider Surfside the best-kept secret along the Texas Gulf Coast. "Everybody says 'Surfside? ' - They live in Galveston - 'Where's Surfside,'" Catherine Andel of Beach Resort Services said.

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Yesterday evening a cluster of thunderstorms developed along the coast between High Island and Sabine Pass.

They came back, wearing donated clothes and the dazed looks of children who had seen too much.

Firefighters have taken control of a large fire that erupted at a tank farm near the Bolivar Peninsula.

Drivers traveling between High Island and Caplan on Bolivar Peninsula's Texas 87 are getting up close and personal with the Gulf of Mexico these days.

Hurricane season is here again, and expert predictions do not forecast a repeat of Hurricane Ike.

Flood waters from Hurricane Ike surround High Island Sept. 14, 2008. Six months later, Galveston officials say Spring Break could bring as much as $36 million to the region.