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Byline: Ben Brasch If you have your life together and worry for nothing, sorry to tell you: Venomous sea worms are washing up on Texas beaches, and, if touched, they'll [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci The first named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, Alberto, formed in the southern Gulf of Mexico late Wednesday morning as it slowly progressed toward the [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci The first named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, Alberto, formed in the southern Gulf of Mexico late Wednesday morning. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci Hurricane season is underway, and a pair of tropical disturbances in Atlantic waters are organizing and could affect the United States. While neither will probably become a [...]

Some rain and snow slowed the spread on Friday of the biggest wildfire on record in state history, but warm, dry and windy conditions were forecast to return on Saturday. [...]

Byline: Martha Pskowski Reporting contributed by Mitch Borden, a reporter at Marfa Public Radio . You can listen to an audio version of the story below. Image: MONAHANS, Texas--A dozen [...]

In 2019, I happened to be visiting Phoenix on a 115-degree day. I had a meeting one afternoon about 10 blocks from the hotel where I was staying downtown. I [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci Triple-digit temperatures are a staple of summertime in Texas, but readings are running extra high so far this June. An exceptional heat wave is continuing to bake [...]

Extreme is increasing electricity demand as people crank up the AC. The strain could be too much. It's really hot in Texas right now. Many parts of the state are [...]

Byline: Dan Stillman A brutal Texas heat wave is now entering its third week for some places and shows no signs of slowing down. If anything, it could expand north [...]

Byline: Kyle Melnick Darrell Schoppe had been looking forward to his fishing trip all of last week, so he got up early Friday and headed to a beach on Texas's [...]

A ''perfect storm'' of bad conditions, including high temperatures, starved the fish of oxygen, officials said. Tens of thousands of fish washed ashore along the gulf coast of Texas starting [...]

Juan López had just returned home from his job supervising the cleaning of giant tanks that hold toxic chemicals produced along the Houston Ship Channel, one of the largest petrochemical [...]

Byline: Anna Phillips BAYTOWN, Tex. - When Shirley Williams chose the brick ranch house in a quiet subdivision east of Houston 25 years ago, she picked it for the lush, [...]

Byline: Dylan Baddour The hottest summer on record for many Texas cities has brought millions of dollars in damage to municipal plumbing and the loss of huge volumes of water [...]

Byline: Jordan Mendoza USA TODAY Parts of the West and Rockies will likely see snow while possibly severe thunderstorms will begin to form Monday in Texas, days after the state [...]

Byline: John Bacon, Skye Seipp, Marina Pitofsky and Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY AUSTIN, Texas - More than 300,000 homes and businesses across the state were without power and more [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci A strong cold front is set to deliver a line of severe thunderstorms to parts of central and eastern Texas on Friday, with the risk of large [...]

Byline: Kristoffer Tigue A brutal two-week heat wave that has broiled much of the U.S. South and pushed the Texas power grid to its limit won't be ending anytime soon, [...]

A new study on the catastrophic storm found that up to 50,000 homes would have been spared flooding from Harvey in a world without climate change. Up to 50 percent [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci Records are crashing as temperatures spike amid a high-end heat wave baking the Great Plains. Temperatures have spiked to 115 degrees in Texas and Oklahoma, with more [...]

Education Hannah-Jones and U.N.C. Agree to a Settlement The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reached a settlement with Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci A serious summer heat wave is baking Texas with record temperatures and high humidity. Heat advisories and excessive heat warnings blanket much of the Lone Star State, [...]

Byline: Christian Davenport The Federal Aviation Administration is allowing SpaceX to proceed toward launching its massive Starship rocket from its private spaceport in South Texas, while requiring the company to [...]