As Twitter kills third-party apps, new life blooms on Mastodon. | Continue reading
While some ghost guns were initially accepted at a weekend buyback, Mayor Sylvester... | Continue reading
As a new drug crisis worsens in Texas, experts say state and local health officials are... | Continue reading
A Houston restaurant owner says he has been blackmailed with 1-star Google ratings for... | Continue reading
The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, named after a former NASA administrator, is... | Continue reading
Several left-leaning Gen Z activists immediately went after a pro-life... | Continue reading
As a new drug crisis worsens in Texas, experts say state and local health officials are... | Continue reading
Photographer Jim Olive sued the University of Houston for using one of his pictures... | Continue reading
While President Joe Biden moves to expand the use of renewable energy nationwide, the... | Continue reading
The lack of a 2-page form forced over 100 natural gas facilities to shut down when Texas... | Continue reading
Arthur D’Andrea, the last standing commissioner of the Texas Public Utility Commission,... | Continue reading
After Texas Gov. Greg Abbott lifted COVID-19 restrictions, private businesses had to make... | Continue reading
The easiest way to charge a laptop in your car would be to purchase a special charging... | Continue reading
In his latest Q&A interview with the Chronicle's Lisa Gray, Dr. Peter Hotez details... | Continue reading
5G is touted as another disruptive technology, and Houston residents are finding that it’s not coming without disruptions. | Continue reading
Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church and other large Houston congregations were among those who received multi-million dollar loans as part of the federal government’s COVID-19 stimulus package known as PPP. | Continue reading
A loophole large enough for an ambulance: People call 9-1-1 in a panic, not realizing out-of-network providers will often bill them thousands of dollars. | Continue reading
In some of the region’s largest districts, the percentage of students failing at least one course in the first marking period doubled, tripled or even quadrupled, a troubling sign as the pandemic rages on. | Continue reading
Gov. Greg Abbott declared Thursday that counties can designate only one location to collect completed mail ballots from voters, forcing Harris County to abandon 11 sites set up for that purpose. | Continue reading
Big Bend National Park is seeing unusual surge in visitors during a period when scorching heat keeps people away. But as visitors rise, cases of COVID-19 are rising in a region with few medical facilities | Continue reading
The tech giant said Wednesday it planned to open its first Houston office to focus on selling cloud services to businesses in the region. | Continue reading
Astronaut parents disprove that the sky's the limit when it comes to raising their son at home Doug Hurley was quarantined for his inaugural space shuttle flight when his wife shared the big news: Just a few months after Jack's first birthday, in the summer of 2011, Hurley flew a … | Continue reading
We may not want to admit it yet, but the rise of China to the top ranks of global scientific achievement is now a historical fact. | Continue reading
It’s been a little over two weeks since Harris County issued a stay-at-home order. And one model shows that we still have two weeks to go before our area’s COVID-19 cases peak. | Continue reading
‘Most in lockdowns cite the ability to switch off and lose themselves in a book as a real salvation.’ | Continue reading
Rice University campus calm a day after coronavirus case confirmed in a research staff member. | Continue reading
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar's electability is a strong reason for Democrats to back her for president, the Houston Chronicle's editorial board writes. | Continue reading
Texas drillers are looking to China to drive demand for their crude and natural gas for decades. But China, the world's biggest energy consumer, is developing its own energy sector. | Continue reading
SEATTLE - More than 330 Amazon employees violated the e-commerce giant's communications policy Sunday in an unprecedented public display of support for colleagues who were warned that they could be fired for speaking out to criticize the company's climate practices. Amazon Employ … | Continue reading
The Houston department of health is investigating an outbreak of whooping cough at a Memorial Park area school following the confirmation of three cases there. | Continue reading
Doctors trained to spot child abuse can save lives - or tear families apart, a Houston Chronicle/NBC News investigation finds. | Continue reading
They run the world's most profitable company, oversee one-tenth of global oil output and their decisions help shape the fate of a nation. Their paychecks, however, are a little less grandiose. Saudi oil giant Aramco is a cash cow for the kingdom, allowing the royal family to wiel … | Continue reading
Lately, indicators have begun to look like the beginning of the end for the economic expansion and West Texas’ “booming” Permian Basin. | Continue reading
Gas station owners are experimenting with one of dozens of new strategies as they plan for a future of diminishing fuel demand as cars become more fuel-efficient and electric vehicles more prevalent. | Continue reading
BP said Tuesday it is launching a new system of gas cloud imaging and aerial drones to monitor and help reduce methane emissions around the world. | Continue reading
The actor who first hit with “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure”three decades ago is refusing to go into the sweet career goodnight. He’s more popular than ever, with three movies in release, and has become an internet meme. | Continue reading
The University of Houston got a big win this week when a state appeals court agreed to reverse a lower court ruling that would have allowed a Houston photographer to sue the university for using an aerial photograph the university used to promote its business school. | Continue reading
A generation ago, a scene like this would have spurred some pearl-clutching — toddlers frolicking in the large fountain set out in the center of the beer garden, and turned-over toy trucks littering the ground near long tables built for beer drinking. Now, as the share of brewery … | Continue reading
He’d been committed twice to psychiatric hospitals; online he was known as the Asian Nazi for his racist threats. Texas regulators helped him get guns. | Continue reading
Competition for entry-level homes ratcheted up in the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis a decade ago. As the bottom of the housing market fell out, institutional investors saw another opportunity:cash flow fromrental properties. Hedge funds began snapping up single-family home … | Continue reading
Houston oilfield service company Baker Hughes has debuted “electric frack” technology in the Permian Basin where it is uses excess natural gas to produce power at drilling and production sites. | Continue reading
The Houston-Dallas line, the United States' first bullet train, will take 90 minutes with one stop in the Brazos Valley.
| Continue readingBack in April, I quit as a longtime AT&T wireless customer and made the leap to using T-Mobile for my family’s cellular provider. I was lured by a much smaller price tag, much faster data speeds and a much-improved service footprint for the nation’s third-largest carrier. Eight m … | Continue reading
Texas is one of the only places—potentially in the world—where the combined natural patterns of wind and sun could produce power around the clock. | Continue reading
The Houston Chronicle editorial board endorses Beto O'Rourke for U.S. Senate.
| Continue readingSix hundred-forty people a year die on Houston-area roads, and 2,850 more are injured badly enough to go to a hospital. The carnage, all factors considered, makes the nine-county region the most dangerous major metro area for drivers in the United States, a Houston Chronicle anal … | Continue reading