The Latest Breaking News from Galveston County

Following a 1925 investigation, immigrant detention in the Galveston County Jail was declared “a crime against humanity.”

In a lawsuit challenging redistricting in Galveston County, the 5th Circuit said the protections afforded to a single racial group don’t apply to multiple groups who collectively claim voting rights violations.

Galveston Island was a key site towards the end of US slavery but Republicans are testing what remains of the 1965 Voting Rights Act to draw a controversial redistricting map

The coastal county faces a drawn-out trial over claims of intentional discrimination in its 2021 redistricting of commissioners court precincts. The only district in which Black and Latino voters could meaningfully influence elections was dismantled.

The Texas Constitution provides that the office of county treasurer may be abolished via a constitutional amendment. Galveston County may be the next county to join nine others that previously abolished the office of treasurer in November. The last time Texans decided on such an amendment was in 1987 with…

A wrongful death lawsuit filed by a Galveston County man accuses three women of helping his ex-wife obtain abortion pills used to terminate her pregnancy last year.

Republican power grab shatters 30 years of political progress for Black voters in Galveston County

In 2016, a League City man stabbed his ex-wife to death. Why does his family have custody of their child?