Harris County

The state’s largest city continues to be under a water boil notice after two transformers caused a water treatment plant in Houston to lose power on Sunday.

Houston ISD announced it will remain closed as the state’s largest city remains without drinkable water. Power outages on Sunday led to problems at Houston’s three purification plants causing a boil water notice. Houston’s problems have North Texas cities double-checking their system operations.

A Democrat who is the top official in Texas’ largest county on Thursday acknowledged problems around Houston on Election Day that included paper ballot shortages and delayed openings of polling locations, but waved off an unfolding investigation by state police as political.

We are keeping watch in Houston this morning where ballots are still being counted. The votes from 782 polling sites had to be driven to this location to be counted. There is a big legal fight brewing this morning in the state’s largest county, and many ballots may not count after some controversy last night. 

A man was sentenced to death Wednesday for the fatal 2019 shooting of a law enforcement officer who was the first Sikh deputy in his Texas agency.

A teenager who told Texas police that he and his twin sister were handcuffed and endured horrific abuse escaped their family’s home after he found a handcuff key and hid it in his mouth, authorities said in court records.

A woman accused by authorities of killing her 5-year-old daughter near a suburban Houston park because she thought the girl was an “evil child” has a history of mental illness, her attorney said Tuesday.

A man was convicted of capital murder on Monday in the 2019 shooting death of a law enforcement officer who was the first Sikh deputy in his Texas agency.

The body of a Texas woman found in the trunk of a car that crashed in south-central Nebraska during a police chase was the mother of the teenage driver, police have confirmed.

Authorities in Southeast Texas are investigating what police are describing as a tragic accident in which a construction worker was killed by a drilling machine being operated by his grandfather.

A military recruiter was killed by deputies after authorities say he fatally shot his wife as she was making a domestic violence complaint against him to investigators.

Harris County deputies captured a 10 ft alligator found wandering through a neighborhood street.

Officials with the Houston Independent School District say no evidence was found to substantiate a threat of an active shooter at a Houston-area high school on Tuesday afternoon.

Texas officials have accused the state’s most populous county of defunding some of its law enforcement agencies in violation of a new law that prevents such funding cuts.

Harris County leaders announce the first presumptive positive child case in Texas. If confirmed by the CDC, it would be the country’s seventh pediatric case.

A 7-year-old boy reported missing in the Houston area Thursday was found deceased inside the family’s washing machine.

The Justice Department said Friday it is investigating illegal dumping in Houston, including dead bodies and medical waste, that officials said is plaguing Black and Latino neighborhoods in the nation’s fourth largest city.

A judge says a man serving a 25-year prison sentence based mostly on testimony from an ex-Houston police officer should have his conviction overturned.

Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, nominated by President Joe Biden to be director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has withdrawn from consideration for the position.