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Galveston is getting more time to use federal dollars to pay for clearing and cleaning the Hurricane Ike-recovering island. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is picking up the cost to clean storm drains and cut down dead trees, has agree...

Thomas Jefferson once said, €œMay I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.€ With that said, 35 volunteers from Bethany Lutheran Church in Austin arrived on March 13 and sacrif...

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - Galveston is getting more time to use federal dollars to pay for clearing and cleaning the Hurricane Ike-recovering island.

Still recovering from Hurricane Ike, Galveston has won an extension to an 18-month deadline to use federal money to open clogged storm drains and clear damaged trees.

The city of Galveston will receive additional federal funding to help pay for cleaning up damage caused by Hurricane Ike in 2008.

GALVESTON, Texas €” The city has more time to cut down trees killed by Hurricane Ike and to clean out storm drains clogged with silt, sand and trash swept there by the hurricane a year and a half ago. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is...

The aged camphor tree in front of Elizabeth Wilson's Galveston home soaked up too much salt-laden storm water from Hurricane Ike. The tree, its immense branches arcing over the street and providing a gym for her five children, died and lost its leave...

To give more time for decision-making and evacuation when warranted, forecasters will begin issuing their storm warnings a full 12 hours earlier this hurricane season, which begins June 1. That decision and others, including the National Hurricane Ce...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency agreed to give crews more time to cut down trees killed by Hurricane Ike.