Nation Sep 23 Migrant camp along Texas border shrinks as removals ramp up The number of migrants at the border camp had been reduced to about 4,000 on Thursday morning as U.S. authorities had ramped up efforts to remove migrants from the camp.
Nation Sep 21 Options shrink for Haitian migrants straddling Texas border The options remaining for thousands of Haitian migrants straddling the Mexico-Texas border are narrowing as the United States government was ramping up expulsion flights to Haiti on Tuesday and Mexico began busing some away from the border.
Nation Sep 13 Tropical Storm Nicholas gets stronger, threatens to hit Texas as hurricane Tropical Storm Nicholas gathered strength Monday and threatened to blow ashore in Texas as a hurricane that could bring up to 20 inches of rain to parts of the Gulf Coast.
Nation Jun 01 Houston seethes over being frozen out of federal flood funds Houston residents and officials are seething over a Texas agency's decision to not award the city a single cent of the initial $1 billion in federal flood mitigation funding the state was promised following Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
Nation Sep 22 Beta weakens to tropical depression, stalls over Texas coast Beta made landfall late Monday as a tropical storm just north of Port O’Connor, Texas, and has the distinction of being the first time a storm named for a Greek letter made landfall in the continental United States.
Science Jul 25 Virus-weary Texas braces as Hurricane Hanna arrives Hurricane Hanna made landfall on Texas’ Padre Island on Saturday afternoon. The storm made landfall about 15 miles (24 miles) north of Port Mansfield, Texas, with maximum winds of 90 mph (145 kph), the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in…
Nation Jun 16 U.S. Supreme Court halts Texas execution over clergy question The U.S. Supreme Court has granted a reprieve to a Texas inmate scheduled to die for fatally stabbing an 85-year-old woman more than two decades ago, continuing a more than four-month delay of executions in the nation's busiest death penalty…
Nation Jun 09 WATCH: George Floyd, whose death energized a movement, laid to rest in Houston Floyd was lovingly remembered Tuesday as “Big Floyd” — a father and brother, athlete and mentor, and now a force for change — at a funeral for the black man whose death has sparked a global reckoning over police brutality…
Nation Jun 08 WATCH: Memorial service and visitation for George Floyd takes place in Houston The last chance for the public to say goodbye to George Floyd has drawn thousands of mourners to a church in his native Houston.
Nation Jan 24 2 dead after warehouse explosion rocks Houston A massive explosion early Friday leveled a warehouse in Houston and damaged nearby buildings and homes.