The Texas Department of Transportation has added another ferry boat to the fleet serving the busy Galveston-Bolivar peninsula trip. And not a moment too soon. The boat, Esperanza “Hope” Andrade, is ...

GALVESTON, Texas (KTRK) -- On Monday, a ferry passenger was rescued by Coast Guard after falling into the water in Galveston. The video above is ABC13's 24/7 livestream. According to a release, the ...

At 10 a.m. Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center officially upgraded “Potential Tropical Cyclone 1″ in the southwest Gulf of Mexico to Tropical Storm Alberto. This development is expected to bring ...

GALVESTON, Texas A $24 million ferry initially plagued by technology and equipment failures was recently placed out of service with the Galveston-Port Bolivar ferry system as technicians work to ...

PORT BOLIVAR - A dredging project scheduled to begin late Monday or early today could have the Galveston-Port Bolivar Ferry open to the public within a couple of weeks, a ferry supervisor said. If the ...

Galveston County authorities are looking ahead as possible flooding could disrupt vacation plans for visitors to Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula. With forecasts projecting heavy rainfall, ...

An injured deckhand was medevaced from a ferry near Galveston, Texas, on Thursday, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston command center watchstanders received notification at ...

Fraud and abuse of medical passes have Texas Department of Transportation officials rethinking who gets priority boarding on the Galveston-Bolivar ferry. The department is planning on replacing paper ...

A new Galveston-Port Bolivar ferry - the John W. Johnson, named after a former chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission - is set to be dedicated and christened in a ceremony Nov. 18. The new ...

You only think we're kidding. But the account (@GalvestonFerry), which has a whisker over 25K followers, is simultaneously functional and poetic. Updated several times a day, mostly its messages read ...

As a resident of the Bolivar Peninsula, Kurt Coburn relies on the Galveston-Bolivar ferry for regular transportation. So when Coburn found a 2006 regulation that offers a $250 annual priority boarding ...