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Opposing Groups Emerge In Presbyterian Church Discernment Process Several months ago we first reported that one of the nation's largest churches in the Presbyterian USA denomination is considering breaking away from that affiliation. The discernment process at First Presbyterian Church Houston is underway and is already stirring up debate. |
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Why Don't We See Big Tornadoes In Houston? As towns in Oklahoma and North Texas begin the recovery process after several massive tornadoes, you might be wondering why Houston typically avoids those kinds of storms. It's actually pretty simple. |
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While annual vehicle fatalities are declining in Texas, thousands of people still die on the road. Each dot on this interactive map represents a fatal accident. Search a particular address, or use the arrow button to position the map to your location. |
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Memorial Day Weekend Gasoline Prices Up Two Cents With the Memorial Day weekend coming up, AAA Texas says gasoline prices are up a couple pennies per gallon in the state. |
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Galveston Beach Pavilion Destroyed By Ike Reopens This Weekend There are big festivities this weekend as a Galveston landmark reopens to the public. |
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Houston Students Help Produce BBC Radio Show From School This week, students in Houston got a special visit from an international broadcast team. Students helped produce the show World Have Your Say from the BBC, right from their school library. |
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Deadly Chemicals And The Risk When Companies Are Accused of Cutting Corners We've been reporting this week on how much Texas communities know about potentially deadly chemicals used by nearby industries. Officials tell us that the majority of companies play by the rules so that residents and workers know the risks. But when some companies allegedly cut corners to reduce costs, the results can be tragic. |
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Will A Stricter Sulfur Rule Drive Up Gas Prices? The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed slashing the sulfur content of gasoline by 2017. Refiners say the rule would cost billions of dollars to implement. |
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Bid Committee Celebrates As Houston Gets 2017 Super Bowl The Super Bowl is coming back to town. During their meeting in Boston today, the NFL team owners named Houston the host city for Super Bowl LI in 2017. It was reason to celebrate for the people who worked on securing the big game. |
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Katy Fire Chief Accused of Taking Drugs From City Ambulances A Harris County Grand Jury has indicted Katy's fire chief on drug-related charges |
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Houston Public Media Remembrance Of ACB Chairman John MacFarlane John MacFarlane — chairman of the Association for Community Broadcasting — died this morning after a year-long battle with cancer. |
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TX House To Vote On Drug Testing Welfare Recipients UPDATED: The Texas Tribune is reporting that the Texas House allowed the clock to run out Tuesday night on Senate Bill 11. The bill would require some welfare recipients to take drug tests. The Texas Senate has already approved the bill and expected to get the governor's signature. |
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Super Bowl 2017 Is Officially In Houston NFL owners in Boston have voted Houston as the host city for Super Bowl LI in 2017. |
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Plunging Inventory Pushes Houston Home Prices To Record Highs Houston home sales continued climbing in April, sending home prices to all-time highs. |
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Centerpoint Energy Sending Personnel To Oklahoma To Help Restore Utilities Some 11,000 linemen helped Houston recover from the effects of Hurricane Ike. And Centerpoint Energy is helping Oklahoma recover from the effects of that devastating tornado. |
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Red Cross Houston Mobilizes To Help Oklahoma Tornado Victims The American Red Cross has been helping in the Moore, Oklahoma area, following that tornado. |
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Lessons In School Safety And Deadly Chemicals From Galena Park Earlier this week, StateImpact's Dave Fehling reported how it's important for communities and schools to know their neighbors when deadly chemicals are next door at industrial plants. It’s also important for schools to prepare for an emergency. |
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Consumers Reluctant to Boost Spending, Despite Falling Gas Prices U.S. gasoline prices have fallen roughly thirty cents a gallon since February. But few consumers are pumping their savings back into the economy. |
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Dreamliner's First Flight After Grounding Sees No Lack Of Passengers Today, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner took off in Houston to fly to Chicago. It was the first time United Airlines operated a Dreamliner since a battery-failure grounded it in January. If people are worried about flying the Dreamliner, it doesn't show in the number of passengers. |
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State Sen. Dan Patrick: 'The Era Of CSCOPE Lesson Plans Has Come To An End' Over the last seven years, more than 800 school districts in Texas have turned to an online system for help with lesson plans. The program is called CSCOPE and was developed by the state. But its lesson plans have been controversial and subject to debate in the Texas Legislature. Now those lessons are over. |
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Super Day In Houston? NFL Owners Set To Decide On 2017 Big Game Tomorrow is a big day for Houston's Super Bowl prospects as NFL owners meet in Boston to vote on host cities for the 2016 and 2017 games. Houston's bid for Super Bowl 51 looks quite a bit different than it did when Houston hosted the big game in 2004. |
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Big Buses Are Returning To Houston Streets Metro hopes new, larger buses will help increase ridership in Houston. |
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Knowing Your Neighbor When Deadly Chemicals Are Next Door When chemical fertilizer stored at a farm supply depot in the town of West exploded last month, it raised all sorts of questions about safety. Homes and a school that were within a quarter mile of the facility were heavily damaged. But it doesn't take a catastrophic explosion to put a community at risk — especially when chemicals are in the form of a gas. |
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Why Texas Makes Kindergarteners Take Standardized Tests High stakes testing is a hot button issue in public education. State lawmakers are poised to scale back tests in high school. But some parents are worried about tests for younger kids — as young as kindergarten. |
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Friends Of The American Latino Museum Hold First Town Hall In Houston The friends of the American Latino Museum chose Houston as the site of their first informational town hall. Over a hundred people gathered at Rice University to talk about the proposed plan to build a museum on the National Mall devoted to Latino history and culture. Brenda Salinas spoke to representatives from the group about the status of the project. |
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Jobs Outlook Improves For All But Youngest Vets As Memorial Day 2013 approaches, the job market for post-9/11 veterans is showing unusual strength. But unemployment remains stubbornly high for the youngest veterans. |
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Texans Seek Bipartisanship in a Sharply Divided D.C. U.S. Reps. Kevin Brady and Pete Gallego are from different political parties, but they are united in trying to bring a little bipartisanship to the Texas delegation. They have scheduled a breakfast next week to discuss ways to forge a common agenda for the state. |
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Infrastructure Constraints Loom as Texas Grows Texas' drought and water-supply problems have captured headlines. But with the state's rapid population growth projected to continue, other infrastructure problems also loom, including clogged roads and a strained power grid. |
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Another Ryan Joins The Houston Astros The Houston Astros introduce Reid Ryan as president of business operations. He is the son of hall-of-fame pitcher Nolan Ryan. |
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What's Inside The New Manual For Psychiatry? Psychiatry will reach a historic milestone tomorrow, with the national release of a new diagnostic manual. It’s the most important book in the field of mental health, determining what types of mental illnesses get diagnosed and perhaps more importantly, whether and how insurance will reimburse for treatment of mental illness. |
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High School Students Compete In International Science Fair The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair is today in Phoenix, Arizona, hosting more than 1,600 high school students from around the world. There are participants from the Houston area. |
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Would You Pay A Toll to Get To The Beach Quicker? Starting this weekend, beachgoers can use the Gulf Freeway HOV lane on their trip to Galveston. The lane is also open to single drivers willing to pay a toll. |
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What Sparked The Explosion In West Undetermined State and federal officials investigating the explosion at West Fertilizer say the cause is undetermined. Fifteen died and much of a 37-block area was demolished. |
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Bauer Business Focus: Comicpalooza Chairman John Simons Comicpalooza returns to the George R. Brown Convention Center next weekend. This year’s guests include Sir Patrick Stewart of Star Trek: The Next Generation and the X-Men films and Avery Brooks of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Comicpalooza chairman John Simons joins Andrew Schneider on this week’s installment of the Bauer Business Focus. |
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New Apartment Construction Still Chasing Demand The Houston Apartment Association held its annual conference and expo at Reliant Center on Thursday. |
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Why The Sequester Could Be Bad For Johnson Space Center Employees NASA's top executive says Houston's Johnson Space Center plays a critical role in the NASA budget proposed by President Barack Obama last month. During a visit to JSC on Thursday, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden also expressed concern about the effects the sequester could have on the space agency's goals and employment at the space center. |
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Harris County Sues Houston Motel Known For Prostitution A Houston motel nationally known for prostitution activity is the subject of a new lawsuit. Harris County alleges the motel is a criminal nuisance to the neighborhood. |
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Rice University To Launch New Institute For Religious Tolerance A Houston couple is giving Rice University nearly $30 milion dollars to start a new institute. It will work to promote religious tolerance. |
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As Memorial Day Nears, Gas Prices Rise As Memorial Day approaches, retail gasoline prices in Texas have risen a bit. |
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Study Gives New Reasons Why Recess Helps Kids In School Think back on recess in school and maybe you remember playing kickball or swinging on monkey bars. Besides fun and games, a new study shows recess can help students in other ways. |
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Winding Down the War, Part IV: Six Deaths In Qalat On April 6th, the provincial reconstruction team based in Qalat, Afghanistan suffered a devastating loss. Six team members were killed during a failed attempt to assassinate the governor of Zabul Province. KUHF's Andrew Schneider was the first reporter to meet with the team after the attack. |
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GHP Seeks To Head Off Labor Crunch The Greater Houston Partnership has announced a new effort head off potential shortages of skilled labor that could limit the region's economic growth. |
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Officials: 'Multiple fatalities' In Texas Tornado GRANBURY, Texas (AP) — Officials report a tornado caused "multiple fatalities" as it tore through two neighborhoods of a North Texas town. |
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Texas Sees Drop In Construction-Related Fatalities Thousands of workers took time out from their jobs for an annual event designed to make things safer on construction sites. Safety briefings were held as a trade organization unveiled new figures showing a big drop in the number of workers killed or hurt on the job in Texas. |
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The HMNS Soon-To-Be Open Ancient Egypt Exhibit Gets A New Addition The Houston Museum of Natural Science has welcomed the newest addition to the hall of ancient Egypt. It's a giant sarcophagus, or coffin that served as the final resting place for a priest. |
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Local Pastor Takes Lead In Effort To Educate Black Churches On HIV Awareness As black America continues to make up a disproportionate part of new HIV infections, the NAACP has been trying to recruit church leaders to raise awareness of the issue. Here in the Houston area, one pastor has taken the lead on spreading the word. |
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Houston Places More Chronically Homeless Into Permanent Housing Houston leaders are working to get the city's more than 2,000 chronically homeless citizens into permanent housing. |
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Here's Why Parking Signs Are Coming Down In Houston You'll probably see a lot fewer parking signs in downtown Houston in about a year. Houston Mayor Annise Parker and the Downtown Management District say they'll get rid of a confusing mish-mash of signs and replace them with more streamlined, simplified parking signage. |
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City Of Houston Provides Ways To Fight More Dense Development A series of public meetings will help Houstonians better understand recent changes to the city's development code. Chapter 42 allows developers to create more dense housing using smaller lots in more sections of the city. |
