Harris County

Firefighters have extinguished a blaze at a suburban Houston chemical warehouse that emitted a dense column of black smoke visible for miles.

Four people are dead after a multi-vehicle crash in Harris County on Sunday night, officials say.

Utility workers trying to repair a broken gas line north of Houston struck another one, causing an explosion that injured six of them, including one critically, authorities said.

An unusually heavy winter storm knocked out electricity to millions of Texas homes and left many people without water service, but it also left inmates at the state’s largest county jail vulnerable, hungry and cold. Advocates and lawyers say Harris County Jail inmates have told them of stinking jail toilets that couldn’t be flushed, no access to clean water when...

Health officials in Harris County scrambled Monday to administer more than 5,000 COVID-19 vaccines after a deadly winter storm caused a power outage in a facility storing the doses.

A winter storm that swept across the country has left millions without heat and electricity in Texas. NBC Boston meteorologist Chris Gloninger joined LX News to explain what’s causing these extreme conditions and why Texas has been so hard hit.

A Houston-area deputy was recovering at a hospital on Wednesday after being shot while responding to a call about a suspicious person.

The U.S. Marshals have added a convicted murderer who escaped from a Texas prison in 2010 to the Marshals’ 15 Most Wanted fugitives list.

A Harris County man is confirmed to have been infected with the COVID-19 B.1.1.7 variant, the first known case in the state of Texas. The Texas Department of State Health Services confirmed the diagnosis Thursday afternoon, saying the patient was an adult male in his 30s with no history of travel. He is said to be in stable condition and…

A Harris County man is confirmed to have been infected with the COVID-19 B.1.1.7 variant, the first known case in the state of Texas.

A Harris County man is confirmed to have been infected with the COVID-19 B.1.1.7 variant, the first known case in the state of Texas.

One woman was fatally shot and three deputies were wounded in a shooting early Sunday outside a nightclub in Houston, officials said.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday appointed Dr. Umair A. Shah as the state’s new secretary of health.

The Harris County sheriff’s office on Tuesday reported that a deputy has died of COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. Deputy Johnny Tunches, 56, died Tuesday after being hospitalized for nearly a month, according to a news release from the department. The statement says Tunches is the third Harris County deputy to die of COVID. Since the coronavirus pandemic…

A federal judge in Texas rejected a lawsuit seeking to invalidate nearly 127,000 drive-thru ballots that were cast in a Democratic-leaning area of Houston.

The Texas Supreme Court on Sunday denied a Republican-led petition to toss nearly 127,000 ballots cast at drive-thru voting places in the Houston area.

Authorities in Texas have arrested an 18-year-old woman on a murder charge in the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old woman as she slept in her bed.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Saturday that he’s appealing a judge’s decision to allow the Harris County clerk to send mail-in ballot applications to all registered voters in the county.

The Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday stopped, for now, a plan to send more than 2 million mail-in ballot applications to registered Houston-area voters before the November election.