Posted on · Houston Public Media and Houston First are paying tribute to the diversity in our region by spotlighting Houstonians from various communities in conjunction with national awareness months.
Posted on · "There is an increasing likelihood of life-threatening storm surge along portions of the Florida east coast" on Labor Day weekend, the National Hurricane Center says.
Posted on · Latin Restaurant Weeks aims to drum up business at Latino-run restaurants in Houston over the next two weeks.
Posted on · Texans in Congress have been working for over a year to get the Trump administration to release more than $4 billion in funds appropriated to the state following Hurricane Harvey.
Posted on · The Houston poet reads a poem written in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
Posted on · The number comes from a study commissioned by Puerto Rico's government, and is much higher than the government's official death toll of 64.
Posted on · The death rate is a contentious subject, in part because federal and island governments haven't responded as rapidly to the disaster as they have in other hurricane emergencies
Posted on · Seven months after Hurricane Maria, thousands of people in the Puerto Rican mountains are still waiting for the lights to come back on. Why is power restoration for the last two percent so difficult?
Posted on · For years, the nation's largest banks made millions off Puerto Rican debt as the island approached financial ruin. Then, with its infrastructure crumbling, a Category 4 hurricane barreled in.
Posted on · Officials said it could take 24 to 36 hours to fully restore power to more than 1.4 million customers
Posted on · The storm caused an estimated $100 billion in damage, killed dozens of people and damaged or destroyed nearly 400,000 homes, according to Puerto Rico's government
Posted on · NewsHour Weekend's Ivette Feliciano traveled to Hartford, Connecticut, to speak with some of those families
Posted on · The agency says it has been working on transitioning distribution to the Puerto Rican government but has not finalized it. Wednesday's date "was mistakenly provided," a spokesman said.
Posted on · The Federal Emergency Management Agency has delivered millions of meals and gallons of water since Hurricane Maria devastated the island. Four months later, it says that help is no longer needed
Posted on · The transition for Puerto Ricans has often proved to be difficult, disruptive and expensive as people try to find housing, jobs, schools and even furniture and clothes to start fresh on the mainland