Heat

The Dallas-Fort Worth area high rainfall totals this spring. The springtime rainfall could contribute to a slightly milder summer compared to previous summers.

As North Texas prepares to celebrate Independence Day Thursday and throughout the weekend, doctors share best practices for fireworks, heat and COVID-19 safety.

A proposed rule from the the Occupational Safety and Health Administration would for the first time set in place regulations to better protect workers from extreme heat.

Soda cans will often warp or explode when they're left in a car in summer. Here's why that happens and a reminder of how dangerous hot cars can be.

Denton residents will now have a right to air conditioning after the City Council voted 5-2 Tuesday night to require air conditioning in all rental properties.

Recreation centers and libraries in cities across North Texas are acting as cooling centers for people who need to get out of the heat.

Texas leads the nation in child deaths from being left in a hot vehicle.

In 1954, 21 families moved into homes in Austin’s Allandale neighborhood. They did so under one condition: They would be the subject of an experiment.

Texas is already breaking heat records this year, and if you're feeling the heat, so are your pets.

By the end of the century in Austin, it's possible that half of the days in a given year would have triple-digit temperatures, according to KXAN's former chief meteorologist David Yeomans. The city's outdoor music venues said hotter summers are already affecting business.

Bernie Tiede, whose murder of a Texas widow was immortalized by Richard Linklater, is suing the state over what he calls its “cruel and unusual” treatment of inmates in hot prisons.

Data collected by Dallas’ Office of Environmental Quality and Sustainability and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association found parts of the city can get up to 10 degrees hotter than others.