The Houston Ship Channel reopened to limited traffic on Sunday after a vessel collision dumped almost 400,000 gallons of a gasoline ingredient and choked suburbs of the U.S. city with noxious fumes. A U.S. Coast Guard-led response team has begun …
The Federal Aviation Administration has not passed a new safety regulation that legislators say would fortify supervision of the hot-air balloon industry and help avoid fatal crashes similar to a Texas crash that killed 16 people almost three years ago. …
The Insurance Council of Texas has reported several insurance bills of interest are moving in the Texas Legislature as the end of the session draws closer. SB 590/HB 1411, which addresses amendments, cancellations and renewal provisions in commercial property insurance …
Recent heavy rains caused flash flooding in numerous parts of northern, central and western Texas, causing one death in Austin. The body of a man was recovered Wednesday afternoon from Lady Bird Lake in downtown Austin about a half-hour after …
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has added 14 counties to an emergency declaration he signed following a series of severe storms that have spawned tornadoes and caused flooding across the state. Stitt on Wednesday amended an executive order he issued last …
Several people were injured when a possible tornado tore the roof off an Arkansas apartment building, part of a powerful line of thunderstorms that was dumping more rain Thursday on already drenched areas throughout the nation’s midsection. The severe weather …
Emergency responders in Texas rescued numerous people from rising floodwaters Tuesday as a strong storm battered the Houston area with heavy rain, inundating homes and leaving motorists stranded just two years Hurricane Harvey devastated the area. As much as 10 …
Workers’ compensation insurer Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced plans to distribute $330 million in dividends to policyholders in 2019. The dividends will be distributed to over 55,000 business owners, who are policyholder owners of the company, in late June. Texas …
A suburban Dallas bartender is accused of continuing to serve drinks to a drunken man who later went to his estranged wife’s home and killed her and seven other people while they were watching a Dallas Cowboys game on TV …
Nearly a year after a mass shooting at a Texas high school in which eight students and two substitute teachers were killed, lawmakers in the gun-friendly state are close to passing new measures that they say would harden campuses by …
