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Here's where you can legally light 4th of July fireworks in the Houston area including Cypress, Crosby and Channelview.
Attached is a map of 17,901 robberies reported to the city of Houston in 2019-2020. The crimes are broken down by zip code. The darker the color on the map, the higher the number of robberies ...
Some Houston neighborhoods are enjoying a population boom, growing by 30% or more in the past five years. But growth around Houston is not spread evenly, according to a Houston Chronicle analysis of U ...
The Houston mayor's office plans to expand the city’s so-called “civility ordinance," which currently prohibits lying down, ...
The administration's initial map had been criticized by Latino leaders who said neither of the city's two new districts — required when Houston's population reached 2.1 million - was likely to ...
Piles of trash line a Houston-area street in the wake of Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Plagued by significant delays, Houston Solid Waste Management plans to launch an online map for residents to ...
Sign for the City of Southside Place, one of Houston's 11 enclaves, seen here in a Houston Chronicle file photo taken Dec. 2, 1980. Staff graphic; Houston Chronicle file photo A map of Houston and ...
Pounding rains and rapidly rising floodwaters caused by Hurricane Harvey inundated the city of Houston, a metropolitan area of 6.6 million. The storm made landfall late Friday as a Category 4 ...
Using data from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Houston Chronicle has created an easy-to-use map to help you find your way to some of the city's more walkable areas.
Water leaks and pipe breaks is an expensive problem in Houston. In our ‘DRAINED’ KPRC 2 Investigation we've learned the reason it often takes so long to fix these issues is because the city of ...
The city report, released Wednesday, outlines hundreds of development projects greenlit by the city from 2019 to 2024 despite the city having recognized elevated cancer rates in the area back in 2019.
Houston’s first area code, 713, was established in 1947 as one of Texas’ original four area codes. In 1996, the 713 area was divided, assigning most suburbs in the region to the 281 area code ...