Community concerns grow over $2B expansion of Houston's George R. Brown Convention Center houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t… via @houstonchron

Houston bail bondsman indicted in scheme to bribe ICE officer to lift immigration jail holds houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t… via @houstonchron Nicole Hensley 📰

Great job alert - Marfa Public Radio is hiring a reporter! This is an opportunity to cover a wide range of important rural issues across a fascinating, unique corner of West Texas, from the Big Bend to Permian Basin. Full details here: marfapublicradio.org/careers

I’m in Kerrville, where I spoke to a man who said he and his wife were swept underwater. He tried to swim toward her voice, he said, but lost her when he was struck in the head by debris. He survived by holding onto a tree. #floods #Texas nytimes.com/2025/07/04/us/… via @NYTimes

Covering these tragedies - I can't explain what it's like. I tell myself that while I may be struggling with the story, they are living it. Please read this piece about Tim Walker, who went missing in the Texas floods. You will want to know him. houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…

NEW w/Neena Satija : After the July 4 flood, a Kerr County official said “nobody saw this coming." But it seems they did - a 2016 study recommended key flood alert system improvements. The county has been trying to get the state to fund it ever since: houstonchronicle.com/news/investiga…

The DOJ's Houston office says it's going to make an announcement today about "a national security matter related to a worldwide incident with direct implications to the Southern District of Texas." Cryptic.

BREAKING: Letitia Plummer for Houston is stepping back from Houston City Council to launch a campaign for Harris County Judge. She told Houston Chronicle her decision came after discussions with Lina Hidalgo about the whether or not she’d run again. houstonchronicle.com/politics/houst… via Houston Chronicle

Longtime Galveston beach patrol chief Peter Davis was fired today. He worked for lifeguard service for 40 years. galvnews.com/news/peter-dav… #galvnews

'Blakely was light and life:' Houston family mourns loss of 8-year-old camper lost in July 4 floods, via Claire houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t… via @houstonchron

The national security matter was an indictment revealing that two Chinese men were accused of hacking into Houston-area research universities to steal vaccine research and other info in the early days of COVID-19 houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…

We've been digging into the timeline on when the NWS issued alerts as the flooding along the Guadalupe became more clear. We found their warnings gave officials time to act, but it's not clear whether they saw them or responded in any meaningful way. texastribune.org/2025/07/08/tex…

Good catch. The redistricting case out of Galveston is now being used as precedent to influence redistricting in other parts of Texas #galvnews

Since we didn't break into the Astrodome like those other dudes, the Houston Chronicle's Jonathan M Alexander and Brett Coomer were given a tour inside. Here's what they saw: houstonchronicle.com/sports/texans/… via @houstonchron

In some ways, out-of-towners were more vulnerable in the July 4 flood. At least 19 of the more than 100 people killed were from the Houston area, a Houston Chronicle analysis found. Story w/Nicole Hensley 📰 houstonchronicle.com/news/investiga…

The most haunting story you will read abt the flood. "If I or anyone else had been closer to them, we would have helped her. We would have grabbed one of the kids. But we didn’t know that we were about to be plunged into the water. We simply didn’t know." texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

In response to the floods in Texas, deployments of critical resources were delayed as a result of a budget restriction requiring Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem to approve every purchase, contract and grant over $100,000. wapo.st/4lFS3gK

On the trash beat today: TxDOT- HOU District spends millions every year clearing junk from Houston's highways. Here's a look at the wackiest (and creepiest) stuff crews have found on the side of the road houstonchronicle.com/explained/arti…