ANAHUAC, Texas—Her boots, jeans and sweat shirt splattered with mud, Janet Lagow Lewis stretched barbed wire across metal posts, rebuilding a portion of her 38 miles of fencing that Hurricane Ike ...

The Coastal Texas project, commonly known as the Ike Dike, has been in the works since Hurricane Ike devastated Galveston in 2008. Congress has allocated its first round of funding for the Coastal ...

Hurricane Ike is projected to hit somewhere along the Texas gulf coast on Saturday. Right now, the specifics of where it is going to hit and at what intensity are up in the air. The Texans are ...

Charities were scrambling on Monday to feed and shelter hundreds of thousands of people affected by Hurricane Ike. Relief workers said the storm, while not as damaging as they feared, would require a ...

As the path of Hurricane Ike shifted northward over the past two days to pose a greater threat to Galveston and Houston, this city’s role as disaster-relief staging area and evacuation center has ...

The U.S. House on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill that would authorize federal agencies to begin planning for an estimated $31 billion coastal barrier project that spans thousands of miles of ...

KPRC 2 Investigates repeat power outages in the Houston area. How to check power outages in your zip code. Read full article: Check now: Is your Houston neighborhood a power outage hot spot? One ...

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) -- The eye of hurricane Ike has powered onto land in Galveston, Texas, and the storm is punishing the shoreline with 110 mph winds. The National Hurricane Center says the eye ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) and John Cornyn (R-TX) today announced the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded ...

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Forecasters said the Category 1 storm was already strengthening over open waters after leaving Cuba and could grow into a massive Category 3 storm before slamming into Texas or northern Mexico on ...