As Hurricane Rita barreled toward Houston in September 2005, millions of residents fled. They had seen victims stranded in New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina weeks earlier. They hoped to dodge a ...

DEER PARK, Texas (AP) — A pipeline fire that erupted in a suburban Houston neighborhood burned for a second day Tuesday with still no definitive word on when the blaze would finally go out, when ...

Firefighters were battling a large pipeline fire near Houston on Monday, which forced nearby residents to evacuate as flames shot high into the air. The fire started at 9:55 a.m. in La Porte, located ...

A pipeline fire that forced hundreds of people to flee their homes in the Houston suburbs burned for a third day Wednesday, with officials saying they don't expect it to be extinguished until sometime ...

ABILENE, Texas (TND/AP) — Severe weather hit Texas late Thursday, bringing at least one confirmed tornado to Hodges, near Abilene and west of Dallas. Several other towns in the Big Country were under ...

Millions of Houstonians jostled to escape the city ahead of Hurricane Rita – a storm that rushed towards the Gulf Coast on the heels of Katrina nearly 20 years ago, triggering the largest and most ...

When hurricane season rolls around, Brian Murray, the deputy emergency coordinator for Harris County, never lets his gas tank get less than halfway full. “Just because you never know,” he said. If a ...

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Dick Gremillion has watched Houston officials come under fire for deciding not to order an evacuation ahead of the epic flooding that has left hundreds of people in the country ...

A pipeline fire that erupted in a suburban Houston neighborhood is burning for a second day with still no definitive word on when the blaze would finally go out. DEER PARK, Texas — A pipeline fire ...