Biden planned to meet with local leaders to discuss the storm, relief efforts and progress toward recovery and to visit a food bank and meet volunteers.
As the end of the second month of 2021 nears, new daily COVID-19 case counts and related hospitalizations continue to fall, but the death toll from the virus continues a slow, but steady rise.
Plumbers across Central Texas say they have been inundated with calls since last week’s storms, but they are having a hard time finding the parts they need.
Crews from several departments were battling a fire early Friday afternoon at a local manufacturing complex where potentially explosive chemicals are used.
A longstanding shortage of plumbers and disruptions to the supply chain of plumbing materials delivered to the state have combined to delay pipe and water heater repairs.
Due to the recent winter storm, many homeowners were faced with many challenges that brought electricians, linemen and plumbers to step up and meet the need.
Everyone from state to local authorities say the voluntary damage assessment survey is used to get a batter picture of last week’s winter storm damage.
State lawmakers on the House State Affairs and Energy Resources committees grilled various members of the energy industry in a marathon series of hearings on Thursday focused on last week’s power outages.
Damage from the epic winter storm that kept Central Texas in a deep freeze for more than 200 hours and some residents in the dark for days should keep insurance adjusters and agents busy.
Like football fans without tickets, friends and family, kept out of a local hospital by COVID-19 restrictions, tailgated outside while inside a Central Texas woman, accompanied by her husband, gave birth to a 6-pound 8-ounce baby girl.
Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday that Texas is looking at when it will be able to lift all statewide orders related to the coronavirus pandemic and that an announcement is forthcoming.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott wants to force power plants to winterize after nearly half of the state’s generation capacity was knocked offline by subfreezing temperatures.
The reward for information was increased Thursday in the unsolved murder of a Texas rancher found bludgeoned to death nearly 20 years ago in his rural home.
The U.S. military on Wednesday began delivering shots at coronavirus vaccination centers in Texas and New York and announced that service members will start staffing four centers in Florida and one in Philadelphia next week.
Grand jurors returned a murder indictment Wednesday against a suspect linked to the 2019 death of a 32-year-old woman whose body was found in a room at a local hotel.
When National Guard troops called to duty during the historic Central Texas freeze ran low on food, the owners of a local restaurant made sure they were fed, even while faced with a flood from burst pipes.
The woman filed a class-action lawsuit against electricity retailer Griddy on Monday, accusing the provider of price gouging customers during last week’s freeze.
Public transit was one of the areas seriously effected in early 2020 as ridership across the nation plummeted due to safety concerns, falling to 80% below normal, a local economist says.
Rebecca Gartell Rodriguez was on a mission to run nine hundred miles across Texas when a driver killed her in a hit and run on February sixth in West Odessa.
