As Twitter kills third-party apps, new life blooms on Mastodon. | Continue reading


@houstonchronicle.com | 1 year ago

3D-printed ghost guns won’t be accepted at next Houston buyback event

While some ghost guns were initially accepted at a weekend buyback, Mayor Sylvester... | Continue reading


@houstonchronicle.com | 1 year ago

Fentanyl deaths soaring in Texas, officials arent taking key steps to stop them

As a new drug crisis worsens in Texas, experts say state and local health officials are... | Continue reading


@houstonchronicle.com | 1 year ago

Blackmail attempt left a Houston restaurant bombarded with 1-star reviews

A Houston restaurant owner says he has been blackmailed with 1-star Google ratings for... | Continue reading


@houstonchronicle.com | 1 year ago

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has 'perfectly misshaped' mirrors

The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, named after a former NASA administrator, is... | Continue reading


@houstonchronicle.com | 2 years ago

The Texas teen who helped sabotage an anti-abortion tip line

Several left-leaning Gen Z activists immediately went after a pro-life... | Continue reading


@houstonchronicle.com | 2 years ago

Fentanyl deaths soaring in Texas, officials aren't taking key steps to stop them

As a new drug crisis worsens in Texas, experts say state and local health officials are... | Continue reading


@houstonchronicle.com | 2 years ago

UH used Houston skyline shot for years without credit but it wasn't stolen

Photographer Jim Olive sued the University of Houston for using one of his pictures... | Continue reading


@houstonchronicle.com | 2 years ago

Texas Senate passes bill aiming to counter federal subsidies for wind and solar

While President Joe Biden moves to expand the use of renewable energy nationwide, the... | Continue reading


@houstonchronicle.com | 3 years ago

Simple paperwork blunder left Texans cold during the deadly freeze

The lack of a 2-page form forced over 100 natural gas facilities to shut down when Texas... | Continue reading


@houstonchronicle.com | 3 years ago

Top Texas regulator ousted as recording emerges of pledge to protect Wall Street

Arthur D’Andrea, the last standing commissioner of the Texas Public Utility Commission,... | Continue reading


@houstonchronicle.com | 3 years ago

After Texas Gov. Greg Abbott lifted COVID-19 restrictions, private businesses had to make... | Continue reading


@houstonchronicle.com | 3 years ago

How to charge your computer in the car when power goes out

The easiest way to charge a laptop in your car would be to purchase a special charging... | Continue reading


@houstonchronicle.com | 3 years ago

With new Covid variants looming, We have to step up our vaccine game

In his latest Q&A interview with the Chronicle's Lisa Gray, Dr. Peter Hotez details... | Continue reading


@houstonchronicle.com | 3 years ago

Verizon 5G Data Boxes Appear Without Notice on Houston Front Lawns

5G is touted as another disruptive technology, and Houston residents are finding that it’s not coming without disruptions. | Continue reading


@houstonchronicle.com | 3 years ago

Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church got $4.4M in federal PPP loans

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


@houstonchronicle.com | 3 years ago

Thanks to a loophole, ambulance trips leave door open for high, unexpected bills

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


@houstonchronicle.com | 3 years ago

Houston schools see surge in failing students as Covid wreaks havoc on grades

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


@houstonchronicle.com | 3 years ago

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


@houstonchronicle.com | 3 years ago

As Texans try to escape COVID-19 in Big Bend, the virus follows along

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


@houstonchronicle.com | 3 years ago

Google plans Houston office to sell cloud services to business

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


@houstonchronicle.com | 3 years ago

Doug Hurley and Karen Nyberg: NASA family out of this world (2013)

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


@houstonchronicle.com | 3 years ago

China is overtaking the US in scientific research (2018)

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


@houstonchronicle.com | 3 years ago

Texas A&M pandemic expert: Coronavirus will have 5 stages. We’re in stage 2

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


@houstonchronicle.com | 4 years ago

Stock up on books not toilet paper: People in coronavirus lockdowns say print is a 'real salvation ...

‘Most in lockdowns cite the ability to switch off and lose themselves in a book as a real salvation.’ | Continue reading


@houstonchronicle.com | 4 years ago

Rice University confirms its first case of COVID19

Rice University campus calm a day after coronavirus case confirmed in a research staff member. | Continue reading


@houstonchronicle.com | 4 years ago

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


@houstonchronicle.com | 4 years ago

The Growth of ‘Made in China’ Energy

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


@houstonchronicle.com | 4 years ago

Amazon employees conduct defiance of company communications policy

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


@houstonchronicle.com | 4 years ago

Whooping cough outbreak sweeps through Texas school with 100% vaccination rate

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


@houstonchronicle.com | 4 years ago

How to Survive the Streets

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@houstonchronicle.com | 4 years ago

A devastating diagnosis: Doctors trained to spot child abuse can save lives - or tear families apart

Doctors trained to spot child abuse can save lives - or tear families apart, a Houston Chronicle/NBC News investigation finds. | Continue reading


@houstonchronicle.com | 4 years ago

The world's most profitable company pays surprisingly little

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


@houstonchronicle.com | 4 years ago

The beginning of the end for Texas energy, economy?

Lately, indicators have begun to look like the beginning of the end for the economic expansion and West Texas’ “booming” Permian Basin. | Continue reading


@houstonchronicle.com | 4 years ago

As EVs threaten gas stations, owners turn to Amazon lockers, fast food

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


@houstonchronicle.com | 4 years ago

BP launches gas cloud imaging, drones to monitor methane emissions

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


@houstonchronicle.com | 4 years ago

Why is Keanu Reeves everywhere these days?

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


@houstonchronicle.com | 4 years ago

Court: Photographer has no recourse against university copyright infringement

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


@houstonchronicle.com | 4 years ago

Babies in breweries? Once taboo, it’s trendy now

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


@houstonchronicle.com | 4 years ago

Banned from guns, Texas gave him a license anyway

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


@houstonchronicle.com | 4 years ago

Houston’s entry-level housing snatched up by institutional buyers driven by data

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


@houstonchronicle.com | 4 years ago

Baker Hughes chooses Permian Basin to debut 'electric frack' technology

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


@houstonchronicle.com | 4 years ago

Texas Private High Speed Rail Between Houston and Dallas

The Houston-Dallas line, the United States' first bullet train, will take 90 minutes with one stop in the Brazos Valley.

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@houstonchronicle.com | 5 years ago

8 months after switch to T-Mobile from AT&T, no regrets

Back 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


@houstonchronicle.com | 5 years ago

Texas has enough sun and wind to quit coal, Rice researchers say

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


@houstonchronicle.com | 5 years ago

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@houstonchronicle.com | 5 years ago

The Houston Chronicle editorial board endorses Beto O'Rourke for U.S. Senate.

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@houstonchronicle.com | 5 years ago

Out of Control: Houston’s roads, drivers are nation's most deadly

Six 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


@houstonchronicle.com | 5 years ago