Researchers have been tracking how strong storms have eaten into the Gulf state’s coastline. Sixteen years to the day after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in...
Fast-moving thunderstorms pummeled southeastern Texas for the second time this month, killing at least four people, blowing out windows in high-rise buildings, downing trees, and knocking out power.
By DAVID J. PHILLIP, LISA BAUMANN and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Fast-moving thunderstorms pummeled southeastern Texas for the second time this month, killing at least four people, blowing out windows in high-rise…
HOUSTON (AP) — Fast-moving thunderstorms pummeled southeastern Texas for the second time this month, killing at least four people, blowing out windows in high-rise buildings, downing trees and knocking out power to more than 900,000 homes…
KHOU, CNN By Joe Sutton and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — At least four people are dead in Houston after hurricane-force winds and torrential rains tore a damaging path through the city Thursday – part of a lashing storm system that is…
Houston's mayor said at least four people died in a severe windstorm that damaged buildings Thursday, as the National Weather Service warned of "dangerous and life-threatening flash flooding" in eastern Texas and western Louisiana.
The Fort Worth Zoo released 75 Louisiana pine snakes in the Kisatchie National Forest – the most snakes released by the zoo at once since its conservation program began in 2015. The May 9 release marked a major conservation milestone; the…
The Conference, hosted by Al Petrie Advisors, has been expanded this year and will now feature a series of 32 panels and presentations that will address key domestic and international industry developments and topics. Executives from over…
Relentless rounds of heavy rain have battered parts of Texas and Louisiana this spring, and another round is coming Thursday to many of the hard-hit areas.
“I would simply echo that the best regulation is the elimination of this illegitimate industry.” By Wesley Muller, Louisiana Illuminator Louisiana lawmakers are one step away from dismantling a consumable hemp industry they created two…
The Supreme Court said it will allow Louisiana to use a new congressional map that created a second Black majority district. The ruling could position Democrats to pick up a seat in November in the narrowly-divided House.
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections in 2024 using a House map with a second mostly Black district, despite a lower-court ruling that called the map an illegal racial gerrymander.
The Supreme Court's order does not deal with a lower-court ruling that found the map relied too heavily on race. Instead, it only prevents yet another new map from being drawn for this year's elections.
The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily cleared the way for Louisiana to use a voting map with two majority-Black districts in this year's election, a decision that could help Democrats pick up a seat in the U.S. House.