For the third time in eight years, water gushed into Virginia Hammond’s northwest Houston home. It was 2 a.m. on April 18. Over the next several hours, her two granddaughters — ages 12 and 15 — perched on tables, scared to put their feet in the dark gray floodwater rising below them.
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.
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. <br />
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.
