Nation Nov 06 Crowd surge kills at least 8 at Houston music festival The crowd at a Houston music festival suddenly surged toward the stage during a performance by rapper Travis Scott, squeezing fans so tightly together that they could not breathe or move their arms, witnesses said Saturday, hours after at least…
Nation Oct 04 Fate of George Floyd pardon request now with Texas governor A Texas agency has approved a request that George Floyd be granted a posthumous pardon for a 2004 drug arrest made by a now-indicted ex-Houston police officer whose case history is under scrutiny following a deadly drug raid.
Politics Sep 24 WATCH: DHS secretary says all migrants are gone from Texas border camp DHS Secretary Mayorkas said the U.S. has allowed about 12,400 to enter the country, at least temporarily, while they make claims before an immigration judge to stay in the country.
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…