HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The Gulf Freeway inbound at Scott Street is back open after a major crash shut down all mainlanes. Views from TranStar cameras showed traffic backed up Monday morning. TranStar listed the crash as cleared around 7:35 a.m. Get real-time traffic data from Houston’s roads and avoid traffic delays.

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — It was a super steamy one on Sunday tying the record of 94 set in 1962. A weak front will slide through Monday night and take us out of the 90s and drop our humidity. There will be a few showers with that front, but less than 20 percent. The next fall front will be much …

Voters in the Mid-Cities suburbs of North Texas find themselves this fall on one of the hottest political battlegrounds in the nation — a congressional contest between former Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne and former Carrollton-Farmers Branch school board trustee Candace Valenzuela. The women — and their allies — are waging a no-holds-barred contest for the Texas 24th Congressional District, sandwiched …

Health officials say they’re seeing alarming upticks in some COVID-19 numbers, though they’re not sure yet whether North Texas is on its way to a surge in cases. A COVID-19 forecast from UT Southwestern Medical Center predicts continued increases in  hospitalizations in Dallas and Tarrant counties, which have already risen in recent weeks, and also projects 1,000 new infections a day …

Exactly how the Dallas Independent School District should implement school choice and a teacher evaluation system are at the center of the race between two candidates vying to replace longtime trustee Miguel Solis. Attorney Joe Carreón, 32, and charter school teacher Alicia McClung, 29, are running for the District 8 Dallas ISD seat, which represents much of northwest Dallas. Solis, …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett are set to begin as a divided Senate charges ahead on President Donald Trump’s pick to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and cement a conservative court majority before Election Day. Barrett, a federal appeals court judge, will tell the Senate Judiciary Committee that she is “forever …

Dallas County reported 418 more confirmed coronavirus cases Sunday, including 395 health officials consider new and 23 from previous months. Four new COVID-19 deaths were also reported. The latest victims include three city of Dallas residents who lived in long-term care facilities — a woman in her 70s and a man and woman in their 90s. The other victim was …

It felt like summer in North Texas this weekend with near record temperatures in the upper 90s across DFW. West of Fort Worth, some communities actually reached the century mark Sunday afternoon. The record high temperature for DFW International Airport on Sunday is 99, set back in 1979. The first of three cold fronts will move across North Texas Monday …

Genevieve Collins’ campaign team announced Sunday evening that the congressional candidate underwent multiple surgeries in the last week and will be unable to participate in a scheduled debate against incumbent U.S. Rep. Colin Allred for Dallas County’s District 32 congressional seat. Collins underwent an emergency appendectomy and was taken into surgery again Sunday after she experienced complications, the Republican candidate’s …

Health authorities are closely watching an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a new strain of coronavirus known as COVID-19. Here are the answers to key questions about the outbreak: What is the new virus? Scientists have identified the virus as a novel, or new, coronavirus. The name comes from the Latin word for crowns or halos, which coronaviruses resemble …