1866 Galveston gets first streetcars in Texas, pulled by mules. 1891 First electric trolleys. 1900 Hurricane levels Galveston, killing 6,000 people. 1938 Trolley line discontinued. 1988 Trolley ...

Galveston, Tex.'s City Council, in a 6-to-1 vote Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015, approved proceeding to re-establish the citys 6.8-mile diesel trolley car operation, which was discontinued in 2008. Galveston ...

Fans of light rail in Galveston can breathe easy again. The island's famed rail trolley will return Oct. 1 after a 13-year service gap. In 2008, Hurricane Ike brought 12 feet of storm surge to the ...

GALVESTON - In January of 2014, the City of Galveston, the Galveston Park Board of Trustees, and the City of Jamaica Beach jointly sought bids for the completion of a wading depth and closure ...

The map for Commissioners Court Precinct 3 initially had 61% Black and Latino voters but was reduced to 31% during the 2021 redistricting process. The U.S. Supreme Court will allow Galveston ...

More than six years after Hurricane Ike knocked Galveston's trolley line out of service, the city council voted Thursday to power up the streetcars in 2017 rather than repay millions of dollars to ...

In Galveston's heyday as a 19th-century financial center and booming port city, electric trolleys ran down the lushly planted esplanade on Broadway Boulevard, rolling past palm trees and stately .

In Galveston’s heyday as a 19th-century financial center and booming port city, electric trolleys ran down the lushly planted esplanade on Broadway Boulevard, rolling past palm trees and stately ...

A judge ruled on Friday that Galveston County must redraw its 2021 redistricting map because it violates the Voting Rights Act and United States Constitution, according to a news release from the ...

No one at City Hall or Galveston Historical Foundation seems quite sure how long Elissa has been on the city's official seal. Nevertheless, the restoration of the old iron-hulled barque into a ...

The federal court began this week in a lawsuit against Galveston County, accusing Republican commissioners of gerrymandering the new precinct map to dilute Black and Latino residents' votes.

A federal district judge ruled last year that the new map violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits election practices that result in a denial or abridgement of the right to vote ...