Hurricane Harvey is expected to cause major flooding in Houston, and there are a few reasons why. At the top of the list are poor city planning and the city's location. The fingers only started ...

Even after Hurricane Harvey exposed the dangers of building in flood-prone areas, tens of thousands of new homes have ...

Hurricane Harvey battered the east coast of Texas Friday evening as a Category 4 storm, creating storm surges and flooding comparable to Hurricane Katrina, in which 1,836 people were killed in 2005.

Voters in Houston and its surrounding county marked the anniversary of Hurricane Harvey coming ashore by approving the issuance of $2.5 billion in bonds to fund flood-control projects that might ...

More than 12 hours after the massive Category 4 Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the Texas coast, it was still being classified as a Category 1 hurricane on Saturday morning. At least one town, ...

Four key takeaways from the Houston Chronicle's investigation of how risky practices benefit developers building in floodplains.