Houston

The storm made landfall late Monday just north of Port O'Connor and could cause flooding in the Houston area.

It took more than a year for officer Juan Delacruz to be charged with aggravated assault by a public servant for the incident, where 44-year-old Pamela Turner was shot to death.

Four Houston police officers were fired and one Baytown officer was indicted this month in two separate deadly shootings, amid a growing movement to hold police more accountable for deadly force.

The officer allegedly fired on Turner after she grabbed his Taser. But documents obtained by Houston Public Media earlier this year revealed that the Taser model was incapable of shooting a second set of darts without being manually reloaded.

"You don't get to shoot somebody 21 times," Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said of the deadly encounter in April. "I cannot defend that."

Many of the populations most impacted by the pandemic are still reeling from Hurricane Harvey.

Even before COVID-19, new teachers knew their first year in the classroom might be survival mode. The pandemic has added lots of challenges, and new teachers in bilingual education are anxious to connect with their students.

Mounting catastrophes are sowing stress and trauma. The country’s one program to help reaches only a fraction of survivors.

Even before the pandemic, lacking health insurance blocked millions from easy access to healthcare. Now, it’s affecting access to the most crucial tool of controlling the coronavirus: testing.

The energy industry is assessing damages caused by storm surges and high winds as Hurricane Laura cut a dangerous path across the coastlines of Texas and Louisiana, making landfall early Thursday.

The Addicks and Barker dams in Houston have been strengthened, but they're still designed to release water if the reservoirs behind them fill to capacity.

A federal judge has prevented a Houston-area school district from enforcing a dress code policy that states that male students must keep their hair…