Read full article: From a high of 70 on Sunday to a morning low of 38 on Tuesday morning—welcome to Houston! Multiple people were arrested in an after-hours club raid in Third Ward. Read full article: ...

Fifteen vertical lift gates make up part of the gate system stretching across the water between Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula. A Houston organization is concerned about the current designs of ...

Hurricane Harvey has battered Houston for days, and the ultimate toll it will take on the region is still unknown. But it’s already raising questions about what could have been done to better protect ...

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The hydraulic performance and flow dynamics of spur dikes have emerged as a critical area of research within river engineering. Spur dikes—protruding structures extending from riverbanks—are designed ...

Work resumed Friday on long-stalled plans to reinforce the aging dike surrounding Lake Okeechobee. Construction crews have begun filling in a ditch beside the Herbert Hoover Dike to make room for new ...

The levee is over a hundred years old. And it shows. But efforts have lagged to fix it before it’s too late. STANWOOD — Sid Roberts had just been mayor for a couple of weeks when he got the call in ...

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy , and give us feedback . The district charged with overseeing the construction of a massive set of ...

Read full article: Medical examiner’s office identifies 4-year-old boy killed in Northwest Side shooting Kamron Kearney, 26, has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and injury to ...

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