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Slightly muggy heat and a slim chance of rain are likely during the next several days in the Houston region as warm, moist air flows inland from the Gulf of Mexico. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms is possible each day through...

Texas’ seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 7.3% in January. That’s down from 7.4% percent in December and from just over 8% in January of last year. The Texas unemployment rate is a full percentage point below the national rate...

A Texas jury cleared the way Thursday for U.S. authorities to go after $330 million in stolen investor funds sitting in frozen foreign bank accounts controlled by convicted Ponzi schemer R. Allen Stanford. The jury, which convicted the former...

The Houston metropolitan area is now the most ethnically diverse large metropolitan area in the country, with two suburbs – Pearland and Missouri City – leading the region in diversity. The findings come from a new report from Rice...

Two Houston pilots are back in the United States after a 10-month ordeal in which they were detained in Panama as part of a money laundering investigation. Kenneth Chonoski and Carl Moody were conditionally released and allowed to temporarily...

A British man has been sentenced to probation for helping a former Halliburton Co. subsidiary steer massive bribes to Nigerian officials to win more than $6 billion in construction contracts.

The mayor’s office in the city of Houston released new changes to the proposed ordinance to regulate the automotive repair and collision industry. The Houston City Council did not reach a final conclusion on the Feb. 14 ordinance proposal...

Dense fog is likely to shroud the Houston region early Thursday morning, and then rain is on tap at night and through much of the weekend as two storm system march through the area.

Mayor Annise Parker has proposed a major change in the way the city’s crime lab is managed. In a report to City Council on Wednesday, Parker proposed establishing an independent board to supervise the lab, which has been riddled with shoddy...

Occupy Houston as of Monday is occupying nothing as the last remnants of the protest group was ordered to leave Tranquility Park where they have been encamped off and on for the past four months, according to the Houston Chronicle.