In focus: Storms that stall or move at a snail's pace near the coastline pile up water and prolong the coastal flooding ...

Inside the University of Miami's SUSTAIN Laboratory, scientists are creating Category 5 hurricanes on demand in the world's ...

NPR and the PBS series Frontline investigate the forces keeping communities from building resiliently, and the special interests that profit even when communities don't.

With hurricane season underway, Houston area officials said they are watching closely as federal budget cuts target key programs that have long supported the region's disaster recovery. Since January, ...

The costliest hurricane to impact the U.S. was Hurricane Katrina (2005), which caused an estimated $201.3 billion in damage.

Both travelers and coastal residents will see improvements to popular Texas beaches and dunes, which will be a boon to ...

DEVELOPING STORM: Hurricane Harvey was the most destructive storm in Houston's history. The late-August storm dumped up to 60 inches of rain on southeast Texas, but the resulting damage was ...

Texas, which encompasses Houston and was badly impacted by the storm, would not have been inundated during the hurricane. The study also found that the destruction caused by Hurricane Harvey was ...

Houston and Harris County accounted for more than half of Texas’ damage from Hurricane Harvey, but when the GLO released its spending plan in December 2019, city officials feared Houston wouldn ...

We're all amazed that Houston is being left out when the damage in the state of ... $4.3 billion in mitigation funding to Texas following Hurricane Harvey, which struck in 2017 and caused an ...

Residents in Houston, Texas, suffered massive damage from Hurricane Harvey in 2017 but aren't seeing any of the $1 billion in federal funding promised to help Texas recover from the storm ...

our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Despite bearing the brunt of the damage from Hurricane Harvey in 2017, Harris County and Houston were awarded ...