Hurricane Harvey

Despite an admonition from federal authorities, Land Commissioner George P. Bush’s plan still steers aid disproportionately to whiter, inland counties at less risk of natural disasters.

Rockport Mayor Pat Rios says serious flooding this week has prompted the city to make its ninth disaster declaration since Hurricane Harvey.

The people who need help the most after disasters are least able to get it from the federal government. Internal records show that FEMA knows it has a problem.

The money is administered by the state’s General Land Office, whose formula for making allocations leaves the state’s largest county out of the money.

Mutual aid is a centuries-old practice in which communities provide support for their neighbors. Volunteers across the country who spent that past year delivering groceries to the elderly and immunocompromised, providing food and first-aid to Black Lives Matter protesters, or raising money for the nearly 10 million Americans behind on rent amid the pandemic say mutual aid has become a vital form of COVID-19 relief and fundamental to the fight against systemic racism.

Many of the populations most impacted by the pandemic are still reeling from Hurricane Harvey.

Mounting catastrophes are sowing stress and trauma. The country’s one program to help reaches only a fraction of survivors.

The energy industry is assessing damages caused by storm surges and high winds as Hurricane Laura cut a dangerous path across the coastlines of Texas and Louisiana, making landfall early Thursday.

The Addicks and Barker dams in Houston have been strengthened, but they're still designed to release water if the reservoirs behind them fill to capacity.

Small businesses affected by Hurricane Harvey could receive between $50,000 and $250,000 in federal grants, thanks to a disaster relief program that was…

Houston's natural vulnerability to flooding — worsened by development that officials left unchecked for decades — was exposed like never before in 2017,…

A federal watchdog released a report Monday that cast doubt on the public health assurances made after Hurricane Harvey unleashed an environmental assault…