As the Houston area works to clean up and restore power to hundreds of thousands after deadly storms left at least seven people dead, it will do so amid a smog warning and rising Texas heat.

Texas officials say power outages could last weeks in parts of Houston after thunderstorms with hurricane-force winds tore through the city and killed at least four people.

High school wrestlers from across the greater San Antonio area travel to the Berry Center in Cypress on Friday morning for the 2023 UIL State tournament, looking to punch their tickets to Saturday’s championship rounds.

A Harris County judge increased the bond for a woman accused of starving her twin children and forcing them to drink bleach and household cleaners.

A woman whose twin children were found handcuffed and malnourished after they escaped their Houston-area home has been extradited to Texas.

Court records show a woman accused of starving and abusing her twin teenagers had been arrested a decade earlier on a child abuse charge.

A couple who fled Texas with five children were arrested a day after two 16-year-old twins escaped their Houston-area home, saying they were handcuffed and malnourished, according to reports.

Ducks are causing quite a bit of ruckus for a Houston-area neighborhood, but the blame is coming down on a retired couple, who could lose their home because of their mayhem.

High school wrestlers from across the greater San Antonio area travel to the Berry Center in Cypress on Friday morning for the UIL State tournament, looking to punch their tickets to Saturday's championship rounds.

Authorities are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing 81-year-old man near Houston.

Several seventh-grade students at a Houston-area middle school became sick after eating cupcakes that were brought at a kid’s birthday party last week, parents said.

The board voted 6-0 remotely on Monday to allow Los Alamitos to continue operating. According to the board, 21 horses have died from racing or training at the track in 2020, including 10 since May 26. We want to give the track at Los Alamitos the backbone to crack down, said Commissioner Wendy Mitchell, who was the lone dissenter in voting against probation. Los Alamitos was the only track in California allowed to continue operating during the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic. Animal activists spoke out against Los Alamitos and urged the board to shut down racing in California during the 30-minute public comment period.

CYPRESS, Texas (AP) – A 3-year-old Houston-area girl died Saturday after her parent's vehicle was left in neutral in their driveway and rolled back, striking the child, authorities said. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said on Twitter that the child was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. It appears a parent arrived home, began unloading the car, inadvertently left the vehicle in neutral. Vehicle rolled back striking 3-yr-old daughter. Gonzalez said it appears the child’s parent had arrived home and started unloading the vehicle, which had inadvertently been left in neutral, when it rolled back.

We’re talking blood-curdling attacks that have left an entire neighborhood in Cypress terrorized. But for some reason in the past few weeks, it’s become imposing and aggressive and wound up biting two moms in the Bridgeland Shores neighborhood. The squirrel also attacked Katie Herrera. “We love animals here in the neighborhood, and my family loves animals, and we help animal shelters,” Daniel Amezquita said. “But it’s kind of scary to see a squirrel that really jumps on you and attacks you that bad.”Residents said they’ve contacted both animal control and Texas Parks & Wildlife.