Even after Hurricane Harvey exposed the dangers of building in flood-prone areas, tens of thousands of new homes have continued to rise in Greater Houston's high-risk flood zones. A Houston Chronicle ...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has ended a yearslong investigation into how the General Land Office handled $1 billion in disaster aid.

Several Texas hospitals have begun evacuating patients in preparation of Hurricane Harvey, the first category 3 hurricane to strike the U.S. in almost 12 years. Here are eight things to know about the ...

When Hurricane Harvey hit Hungerford, seventeen-year-old Logan Goudeau and her community came together to save their livestock. By helicopter.

Hurricane Harvey battered the east coast of Texas Friday evening as a Category 4 storm, creating storm surges and flooding comparable to Hurricane Katrina, in which 1,836 people were killed in 2005.

A federal appeals court has ruled that the government is liable for damage to homes that flooded upstream of the Addicks and Barker dams after Hurricane Harvey unleashed more than 50 inches of ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Service has declared a public health emergency in the wake of Hurricane Harvey's devastation in Texas. The agency will give providers greater flexibility in ...

Homeowners whose properties were damaged in 2017 by Hurricane Harvey floodwaters upstream of the Addicks and Barker reservoirs in west Houston can expect compensation after an appeals court panel ...

More than a week after Hurricane Harvey slammed Texas’s southeast Gulf Coast, Houston artists are only now beginning to evaluate the extent of damage to their studios and take stock of lost artworks.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marcus Cossie clears his flood-ruined home in northeast Houston on Sept. 2, 2017. Cossie and his family joined the rest of the ...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has concluded there was “no reasonable cause” to believe Texas officials discriminated based on race or national origin when distributing $1 ...