The evolution of Houston through the eyes of its founders — The Allen brothers — started off as “well-watered,” which essentially was another way of saying it was a swamp. Yet Augustus ...

A local journalist reflects on his journey to Houston, Texas, his love for the city and why he’s answering readers' questions ...

Images of Houston underwater remind us that the place is subtropical, less like the vision of Texas as tumbleweed country and more like the dank wetlands of southern Louisiana. Built atop a swamp ...

151; -- Hurricane Harvey's historic torrential rains left thousands of people stranded in the Houston area today while rescuers -- public officials, as well as neighbors and good Samaritans ...

"People came to Houston because it was growing ... the Handbook of Texas notes the developers claimed the muddy, mosquito-infested swamp someday would become the "great interior commercial ...