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Governor Rick Perry charged the Houston Galveston Area Council with advising on how best to distribute the over $800 million in Hurricane Ike relief funds. A preliminary suggestion by H-GAC stated that $675 million of the fund should go to Harris and Galveston counties.

GALVESTON, Texas - Hundreds of revellers gathered Saturday to celebrate an annual Mardi Gras tradition in Galveston in a show of support for the island ravaged by Hurricane Ike's powerful storm surge just five months ago.

Hundreds of revelers gathered Saturday to celebrate an annual Mardi Gras tradition in a show of support for this island ravaged by Hurricane Ike's powerful storm surge just five months ago. "I see this as a hopeful sign," said Sue Orta, a reveler from Houston who has a home on Galveston Island. "The city will recover." About 75 percent of the homes in Galveston sustained damage from Ike's ...

(By JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press Writer) Hundreds of revelers gathered Saturday to celebrate an annual Mardi Gras tradition in a show of support for this island ravaged by Hurricane Ike's powerful storm surge just five months ago. "I see this as a hopeful sign," said Sue Orta, a reveler from Houston who has a home on Galveston Island. "The city will recover." About 75 percent of the homes in ...

Hundreds of revelers gathered Saturday to celebrate an annual Mardi Gras tradition in a show of support for this island ravaged by Hurricane Ike's powerful storm surge just five months ago.

The storm may have been nearly five months ago and all the debris is cleaned up, but Fort Bend County and it’s consulting partners are still working at tying up loose ends after Hurricane Ike.

It has been just under five months since Hurricane Ike barreled through the Baytown area, inundating the Eddie V. Gray Wetlands Center with over 13 feet of water and destroying hundreds of thousands of dollars in exhibits and equipment used to teach students about local wildlife in the area.

The Deep East Texas Council of Governments (DETCOG), in cooperation with The Office of Community Rural Affairs (ORCA) and the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA), is holding a series of three (3) public hearings to obtain comments on the proposed distribution of $59,310,711 in Community Development Block Grant Program Disaster Recovery supplemental funds. The Hurricane Ike ...

Galveston County authorities said they have officially ended their search for bodies missing from Hurricane Ike nearly five months after the storm.

DAYTON - A state prison inmate says he's amazed to find that a heavy box of keepsakes he left in a friend's garage in Galveston the day before going to prison was found more than a mile away after Hurricane Ike.