Local elected officials and leaders are backing a new bill presented during the state’s ongoing legislative session aimed at alleviating flooding and the buildup of sand and sediment in Lake Houston ...

An "unplanned water release" from Cochiti Dam on Tuesday was expected to cause the Rio Grande to rise by several feet in Albuquerque by 8 p.m., federal agencies announced. No flooding is expected, but ...

A San Jacinto sheriff's deputy was watching an inmate in custody in a hospital when a struggle broke out after the prisoner ...

A prisoner who was a patient at HCA Kingwood Hospital was killed after a deputy-involved shooting, according to Houston ...

A new study finds elevated cancer rates near toxic San Jacinto river waste pits. Texans living in a 250-square-mile area of Harris County that includes a hazardous superfund ...

Texans living around the San Jacinto River Waste pits, a toxic Superfund site, suffer from abnormally high rates of certain types of cancer, a study has found. The Texas Department of State Health ...

A community group that has been fighting to clean up the San Jacinto waste pits for a decade now has a new weapon: the latest ...

Texas officials announced four unusual patterns of cancer covering a large swath of East Harris County in a new state assessment published this month. The study, led by the Department of State Health ...

A state study says a 250-square-mile area of east Harris County is a cancer cluster. Some residents believe it may be linked ...

Residents say they believe the cancer cluster was caused by the superfund site and waste pits in the area. The report focuses ...

Environmental activist Jackie Medcalf unveiled Monday a new state report identifying a 250-square mile around the San Jacinto ...