Federal lawmakers have allocated $5 million for the long-planned initiative, which would create a coastal barrier system to protect the Houston region and its petrochemical industry from storm surge.

HOUSTON, TX, USA A monster-sized Hurricane Ike bore down on the Texas coast late Friday, threatening to rattle the sparkling skyscrapers of America's fourth-largest city, shut down the heart of the ...

Charities were scrambling on Monday to feed and shelter hundreds of thousands of people affected by Hurricane Ike. Relief workers said the storm, while not as damaging as they feared, would require a ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) and John Cornyn (R-TX) today announced the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded ...

HOUSTON It's known simply as The Great Storm of 1900, and it was the worst natural disaster ever to hit the United States. At least 6,000 people on the 30-mile-long by 3-mile wide strip of sand along ...

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As the path of Hurricane Ike shifted northward over the past two days to pose a greater threat to Galveston and Houston, this city’s role as disaster-relief staging area and evacuation center has ...

As Ike moved north later Saturday morning, the storm dropped to a Category 1 hurricane with winds of around 80 mph. At 11 a.m. EDT, the center was about 20 miles north-northeast of Huntsville, Texas, ...

The contractor says not only was cutting through red tape a nightmare, but getting paid was very slow. The city of Galveston says those homeowners who've been caught in the middle don't need to worry ...

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) -- The eye of hurricane Ike has powered onto land in Galveston, Texas, and the storm is punishing the shoreline with 110 mph winds. The National Hurricane Center says the eye ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Hurricanes are some of the most powerful storms on Earth. Although they occur naturally, climate change is exacerbating the strength of these tropical systems, adding “fuel” to the ...