Surfside Beach News

Who, upon seeing a police vehicle, doesn't feel the automatic reflex to slow down even before checking the speedometer? That instinctive action alone is proof law enforcement presence is a deterrent.

While beach house rental companies cash in on the Independence Day rush this year, holiday revelers could find themselves earning a free trip to jail if they get out of hand.

A Brazoria County lawyer who helped educate federal judges about civil procedure and evidence wants to practice what he has taught.

A group of coastal towns are leaving the rakes at home and embracing the smelly stuff floating ashore with the Gulf waves.

An emergency order extended by Brazoria County commissioners on Monday makes all fireworks with sticks or fins illegal, but some aerial displays still are all right, and all municipal fireworks displays still are allowed.

Clute takes plunge into serious drainage work Looking up at the searing, cloudless skies then down at the parched brown grass, it's been hard to imagine recently there could be a need anytime soon for drainage - much less drainage improvements.

Brazoswood High arranges special ceremony for hospitalized graduate. Walking across the stage of honor, adorned in cap and gown, to receive a diploma represents a very special time in the lives of young people as they celebrate the end of their school days and graduate into adulthood.

ISLAND SEEING A LOT OF VOLUNTEER HOURS The outpouring of support for Surfside Beach in the wake of Hurricane Ike has resulted in more than 9,000 volunteer hours logged, village volunteer coordinator Bob Eastman said.

The property owners in Surfside Beach and elsewhere who have spent chunks of their personal finances and countless hours fighting against the state law prohibiting them from building on the public beach have every reason to be ticked.

Village leaders want Surfside to be known as the coastal community that dug in against erosion and won.

An increase in trash left on the beach means more work for cleanup crews, but also an economic boost for the coastal region's businesses.

A Brazoswood High student was in fair condition at a Houston hospital late Friday after suffering head and leg injuries during a fall from the hood of a moving vehicle on the beach.

Angela Witmer gets curious looks from some on the beach, while others walk up and immediately begin asking questions.

One teenager went by medical helicopter to Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston and two others were taken to Brazosport Regional Health System by ambulance after a one-car accident Sunday.

A modified plan to showcase wave-driven technology will get a fresh start off Bryan Beach.

It's common for Surfside Beach police officers to drop what they are doing two, maybe three times a day when the summer season is in full tilt and sweep the beach for a youngster who has been separated from his family.

While parts of area beaches were changed by Hurricane Ike, police presence on the sands this Memorial Day weekend will be much the same.

Medics took four contractors to area hospitals Wednesday after a large vessel they were lining with a cement material rolled off its supports at Freeport Welding, Freeport officials said.

The day before my parents headed back up to Ohio after their first visit to the Texas Gulf Coast, we made the trip out to Bryan Beach for them to dip their toes in the water.

It's a season of false starts for sea turtles on Bolivar beaches. Or rather, "false crawls." In sea turtle circles, this means a mama sea turtle arrived on a beach only to return to the Gulf without nesting.