"Sentinels of the Port," a new film by Galveston Unscripted host J.R. Shaw, spotlights the harbor pilots working the ports of Galveston and Texas City.

Nikki Johnson-Kunz, also known as the "Shrimp Diva," married into a family of Galveston shrimpers that has made a living fishing the waters of the Gulf for generations. She was not surprised to learn the investigation's test results revealed that nearly 60% of the restaurants were serving shrimp that had been imported and raised on farms abroad.

The Gulf Center for Sea Turtle Research, Houston Zoo and the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department on Friday released more than 40 recently rescued, cold-stunned green sea turtles into the

Over 40 green sea turtles were rehabilitated and released in Galveston after a cold snap left them cold-stunned, with the community witnessing the event.

President Donald Trump's recent executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America has thus far elicited a lot of snickering and not much else.

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During his inauguration speech Monday, President Donald Trump repeated his promise to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. "A short time from now we are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America," Trump said, during a description of his plans for his first actions as the 47th president.

Houstonians, and most in the Gulf region stretching from Galveston to Lake Charles, Louisiana, woke up Tuesday with several inches of snow and subfreezing temperatures.

GALVESTON, Texas — When you go to a seafood restaurant ... be imported from outside of the country than caught in the Gulf of Mexico. SeaD Consulting, the company that performed DNA tests ...

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) started using the term “Gulf of America” to refer to the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, one day after President Trump signed an executive order setting in motion the process to change its official name.

The National Weather Service warned of "abnormally low" water levels in the Galveston Bay along the upper coast of Texas.