KP’s Kitchen will close its Bellaire location on May 31 so owner Kerry Pauly can focus on the Spring Valley flagship. Staff shifts and end-of-month specials are planned.

Rice says it has hired more than 200 tenure‑track professors and plans roughly 30 percent more hires as undergraduate enrollment expands toward about 5,000. The push includes AI cluster searches and campus building projects to keep the 6‑to‑1 student‑faculty experience intact.

Surveillance video shows gunfire at a Third Ward short-term rental; three people hospitalized and neighbors demand stricter enforcement of new rules.

A school-based Livingston police officer was fired and arrested on a charge of an improper relationship with a student. State and local investigators say the probe is ongoing.

Deputies say a driver tried to strike a deputy during a welfare check on Louetta Road. The suspect was arrested and booked with bond set at $20,000.

Brightspeed says its Humble fiber expansion is about 90% complete, with service live to more than 42,000 Harris County homes and a network due to reach roughly 46,000 locations.

A Houston Methodist employee was stabbed Monday morning in a Texas Medical Center parking garage and taken to Memorial Hermann. Police are searching for a suspect.

Fifty years after a tanker spilled anhydrous ammonia on Loop 610, Houston remembers the deadly crash that reshaped hazmat routing and emergency response. The 1976 disaster remains a touchstone for how the city manages dangerous cargo.

Precinct 3 deputies found an adult man shot after a reported carjacking near Sam Houston Parkway; he was flown by Life Flight and detectives are investigating.

A man in his 20s was killed after a red Tesla left the roadway, rolled several times and struck a tree in Spring early Sunday. Deputies say speed may have been a factor as HCSO investigates.

Montgomery County detectives arrested a Porter man in connection with a deadly hit-and-run on U.S. 59 that left Gary Belvin dead. The suspect faces a second-degree felony charge.

A man was shot in the leg late Saturday outside Diamond Ridge Apartment Homes in northwest Houston; police detained a driver and recovered a firearm.

Winfield's recalled five dark‑chocolate novelties sold at its three Houston shops after 'milk' was left off ingredient labels.