The Surfside Beach Marathon and Half Marathon return Saturday. The event includes a 10k, 5k and kids' run, which is limited to participants 12 years old or younger.

Charging fees for fires and vehicle accidents was one of the topics at a recent Surfside Beach Town Council workshop.

The idea that there "ain't no surf in Texas" persists. But as a new Galveston museum explores, adventurers have been catching waves here for at least a century.