TX lawmakers push for generators at assisted living homes after Hurricane Beryl
Senate Bill 732 would require certain low-income housing for seniors living independently to have backup power.
The US's deadliest hurricane hit Galveston in 1900. Here’s what it tells us about restricting NOAA.
Officials reportedly told NOAA to pause international communications. Galveston’s past offers a lesson in what can happen by ...
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After Hurricane Beryl, Texas lawmakers push for generators at senior living facilities
AUSTIN (The Texas Tribune) — When a storm hits the Texas coast during the summer hurricane season ... Christian Manuel, ...
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Alligators frozen in ice as temperatures suddenly plunge in Texas
"They get up here and they sit real still and let it freeze around them." Per the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, alligators in Texas are mostly inactive when they brumate from about mid ...
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Beaumont, Southeast Texas see first-ever blizzard warning
Southeast Texas is under its first-ever blizzard warning – one that reaches from the Golden Triangle, which includes Beaumont, Port Arthur and Orange, out east into Louisiana, home to what is normally ...
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Texas is still vulnerable to storms. We need to invest in resiliency, not recovery.
By comparison, the University of Texas Medical Branch built the Jennie Sealy Hospital following 2008’s Hurricane Ike. Architects designed the facility with the worst storms in mind, and UTMB ...
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Feds refer Texas’ Hurricane Harvey funding discrimination case to Justice Department
Texas officials discriminated against residents based on race and national origin in distributing $1 billion in Hurricane Harvey aid in 2021, the federal Department of Housing and Urban ...
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Southeast Texas nonprofits provide shelter for people facing homelessness, their pets ahead of winter storm
BEAUMONT, Texas — Two local nonprofits are working together to help both people and pets experiencing homelessness as Southeast Texas prepares for incoming winter weather. Warm Hands Warm Hearts ...
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Feds refer Texas’ Harvey funding discrimination case to Justice Department
George P. Bush, the General Land Office's then-commissioner, speaks at a Texas House of Representatives Committee on Urban Affairs hearing on Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Credit: Michael Stravato for ...
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Four injured in fight at Beaumont federal penitentiary
Beaumont — The Federal Bureau of Prisons tells KFDM News a fight at the Beaumont penitentiary has injured four prisoners. Guards spotted the fight involving several inmates at about 10:45 a.m.
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Alaska pummeled by hurricane-force winds near 130 mph as widespread damage seen in Anchorage
The largest populated city in Alaska is still recovering from the hurricane-force winds that battered homes and infrastructure on Sunday, leaving thousands without power and causing significant ...
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Sources tell KFDM former political powerhouse Mark Stiles to run for Beaumont council
Beaumont — Sources tell KFDM/Fox 4 News that Mark Stiles, a former lawmaker who represented Southeast Texas in the Texas House for nearly two decades, is preparing to run for the Ward 1 Beaumont ...