TX lawmakers push for generators at assisted living homes after Hurricane Beryl
Senate Bill 732 would require certain low-income housing for seniors living independently to have backup power.
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Heights Neighborhood Library to see improvements after extreme weather event damage
Houston City Council unanimously approved a $79,000 project to improve the Heights Neighborhood Library, after it sustained ...
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Houston organization works to address untreated childhood trauma
Shawn Alex Nemeth, the founder of Houston's Chester Street Foundation, talks about surviving a traumatic childhood and the ...
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Houston mayor says City Controller Chris Hollins should ‘stop playing politics’ over budget deficit
Hollins has been calling for an emergency task force to address a more than $330 million budget deficit. Mayor John Whitmire ...
The US's deadliest hurricane hit Galveston in 1900. Here’s what it tells us about restricting NOAA.
Officials reportedly told NOAA to pause international communications. Galveston’s past offers a lesson in what can happen by ...
Texas electric utilities now required to maintain online power outage trackers
Electricity providers in Texas that service retail customers are now required to maintain online power outage trackers that provide information in English and Spanish.
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The US's deadliest hurricane hit Galveston in 1900. Here’s what it tells us about restricting NOAA.
HURRICANE BERYL: What the storm taught us about our relationship with Houston With Willis’s encouragement, the War Department banned Cuba’s government-owned telegraph lines from sending any ...
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Audit finds inefficiencies in City of Houston's operations
An audit found several inefficiencies in the City of Houston's "uncoordinated" spending and employee structure, noting a problem with retention.
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Gov. Greg Abbott wants to set a high bar for local tax increases
Local officials, school advocates and tax policy experts said such a proposal could have dire impacts on basic services.
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CenterPoint Energy Submits Enhanced Resiliency Plan With Vegetation Management Plan
The plan is expected to reduce the impact of storm-related outages by over 1.3 billion minutes for its 2.8 million customers across Greater Houston by 2029.