The Environmental Protection Agency will make two companies pay $115 million to remove toxic waste from a riverbank in Houston submerged under a makeshift cap that was damaged by flooding from Hurricane Harvey.
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A panel of Fifth Circuit judges on Tuesday questioned whether a federal judge in Houston went too far in overhauling the bail policies of Texas’ biggest county by ordering it to release poor misdemeanor defendants from jail within 24 hours.
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A Texas wildlife lover took her fight to free four white tigers to federal court Tuesday, claiming their cramped quarters at a Houston aquarium and confinement indoors there for 13 years violates the Endangered Species Act.
Read moreA serial rapist sexually assaulted a woman in 2011 and was not convicted of it until 2016, due to Houston officials’ indifference to a backlog of more than 6,000 untested rape kits, the woman says in a federal class action.
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With Houston facing the monumental task of disposing debris from flood-ravaged homes, tempers flared at Wednesday’s City Council meeting when a council member asked city staff to give him a schedule for when trash will be picked up in his district.
Read moreA Houston man whose mental illness prevented prosecutors from proving in court that he shot a sheriff’s officer to death pleaded guilty to capital murder Wednesday and was sentenced to life in prison.
Read moreHouston garbage collectors are working 16-hour days picking up piles of soggy building materials removed from flooded homes, and the mayor says the process could drag on until Christmas if a tax hike is not approved to pay for more garbage contractors.
Read moreThe busiest criminal courthouse in Texas will be closed for up to nine months to repair damage from Hurricane Harvey, and 900 criminal trials will be delayed for at least a month, officials said this week.
Read moreAfter Harvey devastated Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast, aid arrived from Washington all the way to Mexico. Lawmakers also passed an initial relief package, but recovery is just beginning and preventative measures for future storms have yet to emerge.
Read moreA week after Hurricane Harvey saturated Houston with historic rainfall and as neighborhoods in the western part of the city are still underwater, residents claim in a class action that governmental mismanagement of two dams is to blame for the flooding that’s forced them to evacuate their homes.
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With their homes soaked by Tropical Storm Harvey, some Houston residents are uprooting their lives, choosing to move out of flood-prone neighborhoods before the next big storm hits.
Read moreHouston residents turned out in droves Tuesday, converging on a downtown convention center with truck and car loads of supplies for the more than 9,000 Tropical Storm Harvey evacuees inside.
Read moreBoat and truck rescues continued early Tuesday in Houston and city officials called for volunteer nurses and mental health workers, towels, socks and blankets to be delivered to a downtown convention shelter where nearly 9,000 people have taken shelter.
Read moreRain from former Hurricane Harvey continued to drench the Houston region Monday night, bringing the storm’s death toll to 10 people and forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents in boats and helicopters as water topped levees and breached river banks.
Read moreFloodwaters reached the rooflines of single-story homes Monday and people could be heard pleading for help from inside as Harvey poured rain on the Houston area for a fourth consecutive day after a chaotic weekend of rising water and rescues.
Read moreA Houston ordinance that bars homeless people from sleeping in tents on public property may violate their rights against cruel and unusual punishment, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, blocking the law with a temporary restraining order.
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A Houston man was arrested Monday on charges he tried to blow up a Confederate statue in a city park, after a park ranger caught him Saturday night hiding in bushes near the monument with nitroglycerine.
Read moreHouston Mayor Sylvester Turner says he will take his time to decide what to do with two Confederate statues in city parks, as the issue of Confederate monuments boils over across the South.
Read moreThree Houston city employees asked a federal judge to block the city from cutting off benefits to their same-sex partners, an attempt to preempt a state court challenge of the city’s right to provide the benefits.
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There are few casinos in Texas but games of chance abound, because a loophole in state law — cut out for huggable stuffed animals — blurs the lines between illegal gambling and innocent amusement.
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