Hurricane Harvey

Mutual aid is a centuries-old practice in which communities provide support for their neighbors. Volunteers across the country who spent that past year delivering groceries to the elderly and immunocompromised, providing food and first-aid to Black Lives Matter protesters, or raising money for the nearly 10 million Americans behind on rent amid the pandemic say mutual aid has become a vital form of COVID-19 relief and fundamental to the fight against systemic racism.

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

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

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.

Small businesses affected by Hurricane Harvey could receive between $50,000 and $250,000 in federal grants, thanks to a disaster relief program that was…

Houston's natural vulnerability to flooding — worsened by development that officials left unchecked for decades — was exposed like never before in 2017,…

A federal watchdog released a report Monday that cast doubt on the public health assurances made after Hurricane Harvey unleashed an environmental assault…

If you’re looking to buy a house in Texas, the homeowner is now required to tell you if it has ever flooded. Likewise, if you own a home that’s flooded,...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a $1.6 billion storm and flood resilience plan nearly two years after Hurricane Harvey battered parts of the…

A group of state leaders with huge influence over what public services receive funding said Friday they were prepared to make a significant withdrawal…

Big-dollar decisions about health care and education will top the agenda in many state capitols as lawmakers convene for their 2019 sessions with a closer…