Extreme downpours — like those that flooded Louisiana, Houston and West Virginia earlier this year — will happen nearly three times as often in the United States by the end of the century, and six times more frequently in parts of the Mississippi Delta, according to a new study.

Highway 99 is the most dangerous roadway in America, according a new report released by ValuePenguin. From 2011 to 2015, Hwy. 99 saw 62.3 deadly crashes for every 100 miles, according to the consumer research company’s report.

The Texas House Insurance Committee recently met to hear testimony on the impact of mass hail litigation — a surge driven by trial lawyers out for profit, a tort reform advocate argued during the assembly.

Multiple San Antonio firefighters engaged in a high water rescue operation in the 8400 block of Quintana Road on San Antonio’s Southwest Side after multiple cars got trapped in a sinkhole.

Authorities say a woman was killed and seven others were injured when a semitrailer crashed into a bus carrying a group of West Texas high school cheerleaders.

One local Texas state senator wants to put an end to the wide-range of rules in Texas for ridesharing. Charles Schwertner (R-Georgetown) filed a bill Monday -- the first day of filing for the 84th Legislative Session -- to create a consistent regulation of services like Uber and Lyft across the state.

One person died when the wheel of a trailer detached and crashed through a car’s windshield Tuesday morning in West Dallas.

Authorities are working to determine what caused an accident that ultimately killed one person Wednesday night. Slick roads "played a role" in the accident that shut down several lanes of I-10 Ramsgate Drive and Huebner Road around 6:30 p.m., a sergeant at the scene said.

The Insurance Council of Texas has declared last Friday’s hail storm in El Paso a "catastrophe," Mark Hanna, with the ICT, told ABC-7 Monday. Hannah said El Pasoans reported more than $100 million in losses and insurers are sending extra adjusters to El Paso.

A nurse who contracted the Ebola virus while treating the first person diagnosed with the deadly disease in the United States has reached a settlement with the Dallas hospital where she was in a team caring for the man, a statement on Monday said.

The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation is taking a promising pilot program statewide to help simplify and speed resolution of some disputes.

It has not been the Lone Star State’s year weather-wise. Mother Nature seems to have it in for Texas, for some strange reason.

Heavy plumes of smoke rolled into the sky above a local plumbing business on Tuesday morning during a massive fire that took the life of the shop’s elderly owner.

Scientists used radar from satellites to show that five Texas earthquakes, one reaching magnitude 4.8, were caused by injections of wastewater in drilling for oil and gas. In 2012 and 2013, earthquakes — five of them considered significant — shook East Texas near Timpson.

A Texas woman is demanding $50 million for being "literally cooked" when a floor collapsed at a Church’s Chicken restaurant and covered her in boiling fryer grease.