Texas public education leaders want legislators to fully fund their schools — so they can pay for teacher raises, safety upgrades and tools to combat learning loss — rather than invest in any voucher-like programs. This plea from superintendents and school trustees comes ahead of an expected special session focused on education funding. “We are in a position of no …

The Texas Legislature will begin its third special session just over a week from now. Gov. Greg Abbott confirmed the session’s start — 1 p.m. Oct. 9 — in a letter to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dade Phelan that was obtained by multiple media outlets. The letter, sent Tuesday, allows Patrick and Phelan to notify their members …

When you call 911, you want help sent to you immediately, but first responders might need some help from you, too. talked to dispatchers who work 24-hour shifts to serve parts of Harris, Fort Bend, and Brazoria Counties. They said one of the biggest things they want the public to know is while they’re getting information from you about the …

Inflation could push the cost of Texas’ coastal barrier project – already expected to be the largest civil engineering project in U.S. history – to $57 billion, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said. That’s 68% higher than the Corps’ most recent estimate of $34 billion to build the “Ike Dike,” the massive system of gates across the mouth of Galveston Bay …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The City of Houston is using $540,000 from its general fund to help Houston’s bike share program known as Houston BCycle. The non-profit announced in a recent Houston Chronicle op-ed that they were shutting down due to economics and declining ridership. Still, they’ll live to see another day after the city approved to keep them afloat. Mayor Sylvester Turner called …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — October will start off this weekend feeling like we’re back in summer, but later next a rain-making cool front moves into Southeast Texas to deliver both rain and refreshing temperatures! First we have to get through another hot weekend that will challenge record high temperatures. Morning lows will only settle down into the mid 70s, and …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A man has reportedly admitted to law enforcement that he set fire to a restaurant when the owner refused to sell it to him. Now, the suspected arsonist is wanted after not showing up to his court date. In the early morning hours of Nov. 11, 2022, a fire shook the ground and businesses near West …

CYPRESS, Texas (KTRK) — She’s not even 2 years old yet, but Madilyn Hurt is forever changed. She’ll never get back the piece of her right ring finger she lost when a door closed on it back in June at Early Learning Center Two, a daycare operated by Cy-Fair ISD. “It’s going to be a lifelong deformity,” Danielle Hurt, her mother, …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — It has been more than a week since a 21-year-old mother has been reported missing after leaving Diva’s Bikini Bar and Grill on the east side where she worked. “I just hope she’s alive,” her grandmother, Bridgette Carriere, said. Carriere said it is unlike her granddaughter to disappear and not contact them, especially, because she has a …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A person whom police were chasing after on foot has been hospitalized Friday night after an officer opened fire. The Houston Police Department said it began looking into the shooting involving the officer at 8:50 p.m. in the 6700 Bennington Street, which just off Homestead Road in the Trinity/Houston Gardens area. According to HPD, a foot pursuit …