The Environmental Protection Agency was quick to protect water infrastructure systems in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey but didn’t do a good job reaching out to residents of vulnerable communities, according to a report from the agency’s inspector general.
Read moreIn their rush to go green, U.S. cities relish statistics showing they are leading in renewable energy. Even Houston, the oil industry’s epicenter, has claimed a title in this tournament.
Read moreYou need to make a deal, a state appeals court told Houston on Thursday, ordering the city to mediation with a firefighters union fighting for voter-approved pay raises held up in litigation.
Read moreThe Catholic Church’s top official in Houston, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, is disputing a woman’s claims that he reneged on his promise that a monsignor she says seduced her into a sexual relationship would never be a priest again.
Read moreGun safety is the most important issue of Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell’s presidential campaign. Texas is synonymous with the Second Amendment. The juxtaposition brought candor Wednesday from Houstonians who gave Swalwell their opinions on the gun debate.
Read moreFor 13 years Eleonora Slovokhotova knew nothing of the danger lurking in her suburban Houston neighborhood, which she describes as “a wonderful area, golf courses and happy smiling faces.” The intruder stole softly into living rooms one night in August 2017 after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers closed the gates on two dams amid historic flooding.
Read moreA Texas judge on Wednesday declared unconstitutional a voter-approved measure to raise Houston firefighters’ pay, potentially heading off mass layoffs the mayor said were necessary to fund the mandate.
Read moreEmergency responders in Texas rescued numerous people from rising floodwaters Tuesday as a strong storm battered the Houston area with heavy rain, inundating homes and leaving motorists stranded two years Hurricane Harvey devastated the area.
Read moreThe Houston home Carl and Cynthia Miller bought in 1988 sits empty, stripped to the studs. The neighborhood was once inhabited by close-knit homeowners who watched out for each other’s kids. Hurricane Harvey washed out the kinship and brought in a tide of renters.
Read moreThe tiny Gulf killifish has adapted to killer toxins in the Houston Ship Channel in Texas, thanks to a genetic variation and a bit of luck, according to a new study.
Read moreThe husband and wife founders of a Houston charter school amassed a fortune preying on their students’ parents. The duo pocketed fees they charged students to go on field trips and to wear street clothes on Fridays instead of school uniforms.
Read moreAn explosion and fire at a Houston-area chemical plant Tuesday killed one worker and seriously injured two others, and as the smoke cleared a spotlight fell on the plant owner, revealing a history of environmental pollution violations.
Read moreThe family of one Houston man convicted Friday for his purported role in the fatal shooting of an armored-car courier and theft of $120,000 said the conviction is unfair because it’s based solely on circumstantial evidence.
Read moreHe’s been dead for two years, but the suspected mastermind – a meticulously clean, aspiring real estate developer who police say shot and killed two armored-car guards with a sniper rifle – loomed large over a robbery trial that wrapped up Thursday in Houston federal court.
Read moreSchools around a Houston-area petrochemical storage plant releasing hazardous levels of benzene fumes remain closed Friday, despite the lifting of a shelter-in-place order Thursday afternoon.
Read moreBefore Donald Trump, Stormy Daniels built a successful career directing and starring in adult films. On stage at a Houston comedy club Wednesday night, she proved she can entertain a crowd without showing any skin.
Read moreA fire that erupted Sunday at a petrochemical storage plant near Houston and sent dark plumes of smoke over the city was extinguished early Wednesday morning, but the plant operator warned residents it could spark back up.
Read moreTwo men were tense sitting in an SUV in the parking lot of a Houston bank in December 2016, waiting for an armored car to pull up, a guard to get out with a cashbox, their ringleader to pull the trigger on his scope-mounted rifle, and to watch the guard fall dead, federal prosecutors say.
Read moreKenneth Hoyt didn’t disclose his occupation even as he silently considered the constitutionality of the stop: A policeman had pulled him over in a Texas shopping center and questioned him for an hour while running his name for warrants. “As a federal judge, I had no right to be treated better or worse than any other citizen. Revealing my status could have resulted in one or two extremes — better or worse,” Hoyt said.
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