As more people turn to their smartphones in large-scale emergencies, traditional dispatchers are racing to keep up.
The state’s Republicans have somehow become anti-business, and businesses are staying away.
America has never lost so many stoves and pantries at once, but home cooks are intent on finding a way — any way — to make meals.
Flood damage to the Wortham Theater Center caused by Hurricane Harvey was so extensive that the theater will not be able to reopen until at least May.
The floods that came with Harvey and Irma brought some interesting and mysterious things to the surface.
While millions lost electricity across Florida, and thousands of homes and businesses were flooded in Miami and Texas, the data centers powering the internet held firm.
The Texas mayor had four feet of water in his house after Harvey. Now, as his neighbors clean up their homes, he is trying to get the city back on its feet.
A Houston great-grandmother was put on a rescue boat. That much is known. But how she got off, was rescued a second time and then ended up in the morgue is one of Hurricane Harvey’s mysteries.
Properties in Atlanta, Chicago and Green Bay, Wis., will put guests near the action with the Braves, Cubs and Packers.
William Manno, who oversees the South by Southwest festival, was accused of skipping meetings because he thought a colleague had romantic feelings for him.
Douglas Brinkley on the writer whose fiction has captured the boom city’s relentless appetite for growth.
Remembering a good immigration decision in a mean season.
Here’s how we did it, with the help of some intrepid and highly skilled scientists.
Technology, building codes, weather forecasts and a more sophisticated understanding of mass evacuation helped keep the death toll low, experts say.
A lower court had ordered Texas to redraw maps found to be discriminatory. The Supreme Court blocked that order while it considers an appeal.
Most buyers are keeping deals on track, builders are expected to barrel ahead, and owners of elevated homes may find their properties more valuable.
After Hurricane Harvey left part of Texas under water, Mexico offered to help its neighbor. That was before an earthquake and Hurricane Katia.
Water samples contained unsafe levels of fecal bacteria and other contaminants, both inside and outside homes, The Times found.
After reading about a woman who lost cups that had belonged to her mother, the stranger found three identical pieces and had them sent to Texas.
Eliminating price controls can increase the available supply of essential goods, the argument goes, and help prevent a black market.
After Hurricane Harvey, residents are in shelters, hotels, packed in with relatives, and on the sofas of friends. They face worry, exhaustion, mold.
While covering Hurricane Harvey, Julie Turkewitz met a man preparing to weather the storm under a highway.
A police officer shot and killed a gunman in Plano, Tex., after responding to reports of shots being fired at a residence.
The musician’s 1964 hit chronicles the African-American experience in the 20th century. We followed Mr. Berry’s lyrical route to see what had changed.
After the storm, 17 people joined in prayer before clearing out the flooded house of an aging widow. God, they insisted, was also there.
Life in Houston now comes with a twinge of survivor’s guilt for those in dry neighborhoods, and envy among those still dealing with floodwater.
Harvey left a reporter and his family with a damaged home, ruined cars and a lot of worries. But navigating the adversity yielded some perspective.
While officials in Houston did not order an evacuation before Hurricane Harvey, their counterparts in Florida were urging residents to leave as Hurricane Irma approached.
Two weeks after the storm, refineries are resuming operations, deliveries and shipping are getting back to normal and gasoline prices are stabilizing.
In the Houston area, air pollution, flooded toxic waste sites and reports of oil spills after the storm have residents and environmental groups concerned.
As he prepares for re-election next year, Senator Ted Cruz faces a challenge in helping millions of people — in his hometown, Houston, and beyond — rebuild after Hurricane Harvey.
The workers said Arkema, where chemicals exploded after Hurricane Harvey, failed to warn them of potential risks at the site. They are seeking more than $1 million.
The survivors of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have a long, painful recovery ahead of them. I’ve been there.
The Republican-led chamber reluctantly approved the new debt ceiling after the surprising deal reached by President Trump and the Democratic leadership on Wednesday.
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit to stop the city from taking down the monument. The plaintiffs argued that their First Amendment rights had been violated.
Police in Houston say more than 20 people remain unaccounted for, and efforts to find them have been complicated by post-storm chaos.
When the great hurricane walloped Galveston 117 years ago, The New York Times was helpless. Hurricane Harvey posed its own challenges.
A number of key changes made in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina sped response and saved lives during and after Harvey.
A number of key changes made in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina sped response and saved lives during and after Harvey.
The hospital, Baptist Beaumont, was one of many health care institutions disrupted as the storm Harvey, once a Category 4 hurricane, swept across the region.
Deweyville, Tex., swamped by a flood in 2016, gets hit once more. Some residents blame a decision to open floodgates even more than the weather.
Work to take down the statue began soon after the City Council voted to remove it, but was stopped by a temporary restraining order.
Buying a trophy asset as the city rebuilds after Hurricane Harvey makes for awkward timing. And yet the investment suggests an abiding faith in a recovery.
After the storm, clearing all the mounds of rubbish is a top priority. Experts warn of the task’s complexity, and the need to meet environmental standards.
As Harvey's rains bore down on Texas, a 911 dispatcher and a pastor's daughter felt nature at its fiercest — and saw humanity at its best.
Air sampling near a Valero Energy refinery in the Manchester district showed elevated levels of benzene, which has been linked to health problems.
A photo-booth snapshot, a beloved set of cups, a Turkish rug: After a hurricane, Texans found ways to save valued possessions.
I had been warned about looting and price gouging. What I saw was an army of volunteers helping to save a community.
Hurricane Harvey’s damage was magnified by policies that encouraged development in flood-prone areas.
Despite state Republican leaders’ anti-Washington rhetoric, the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey is prompting huge demands for federal flood and relief aid.
It took them six years to save up for their home in Houston, now swollen with floodwaters. How one family got through the storm — and what happens now.
Politicians from both parties stressed urgency in passing relief legislation for areas of Texas and Louisiana hit by Hurricane Harvey.
Houston embodies wildly different lessons on how to build a city. And everyone is doubling down.
The stretch of I-45 that leads downtown from near George Bush Intercontinental Airport captures some of the essence of what has often been a misunderstood city.
Caught between rampant development and NIMBYism.
The Hendrix family returns to their still-flooded house in West Houston to witness the destruction left by Hurricane Harvey.
The devastating rain put thousands of animals at risk of drowning, but a cowpoke in a helicopter is helping drive them to higher ground.
While people in parts of Houston are gutting their houses and beginning to rebuild after hurricane Harvey flooded the city, residents of the neighborhood of Memorial may have to wait weeks for the water to drain.
The Treasury secretary urged a link between the distribution of emergency funds and a debt ceiling bill, while Texans gathered for prayer.
The Houston Astros’ doubleheader against the New York Mets on Saturday was the first time the team had played at Minute Maid Park since Hurricane Harvey hit.
An anti-government stance made Hurricane Harvey’s impact worse. Can big government now make things better?
Hurricane Harvey offers an opportunity to understand what’s happening to the climate and how we can mitigate future disasters.
The Longhorns, who had shown preseason promise under their new coach, Tom Herman, were stunned in their regular-season opener by the Terrapins.
We know there’s a link, and there are things we can do to combat global warming.
Stiletto heels won’t help, but she could bring some grace to the chaos.
With no preparation and few road maps to guide them, hurricane survivors like the Amofas are stumbling through their first bewildering days after Harvey.
“There’s a lot of love,” the president said on his second trip to the region this week. “As tough as it’s been, it’s been a wonderful thing to watch.”
Among the dead were volunteers, people who ventured out to check on relatives, and “loner-type folks” who died in their homes.
For many residents of southeast Texas, the last few days have been spent on a series of roads to nowhere.
Thousands of people were evacuated from Texas nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Many still need medicine, medical help and a return home.
Over 150,000 properties in Texas have been affected by Hurricane Harvey, based on preliminary estimates by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Days after a storm battered Houston, a family made an emotional return through waist-high water to see their flooded home and collect their belongings.
Get a 360-degree view of the flooding and damage caused by Tropical Storm Harvey in and around Houston and Port Arthur, Tex.
Readers call for more responsible growth and question whether all taxpayers should bear the burden of “the negligence of Texans.”
Across coastal Texas, millions of residents grappled with the devastating effects of storm Harvey while millions of others returned home to take in the damage.
I asked a guy who was driving his boat downtown what brought him out to help. He told me it was because his family had been spared.
As people begin to plot a path forward from the storm’s destruction, we collected some of the best coverage from The Times and around the internet.
The hurricane has transformed the budget debate, turning Republican critics of federal spending into proponents of billions of dollars of storm relief.
A new state motto?
Many of the iconic images from Hurricane Katrina captured a divide of class and race. In Houston, Harvey battered poor and rich with similar ferocity.
A judge has temporarily blocked an attempt to force localities to cooperate with harsh federal policies, but the legal struggle will continue.
When normally stoic scientists start draining the barrel of awful superlatives, it’s time to pay attention.
A federal judge ruled that opponents of the law, which would restrict the most common type of second-trimester abortion, were likely to succeed in court.
Our southern neighbor has a record of helping Americans displaced by catastrophe.
The storm’s victims need all the help we can provide. But this calamity should make us reconsider our broader social contract.
Fuel prices are up sharply nationwide in Hurricane Harvey’s aftermath, and may be so for months, given the blows to refining, production and shipping.
More than a half-million vehicles may need to be replaced following the vast flooding from Harvey — a number that could surpass the effects of Sandy and Katrina combined.
One family describes how they lost everything in the flooding before being taken to one of the many shelters in Houston.
A series of explosions rocked a plastics plant near Houston that has been identified as one of the most hazardous in the state.
The men, including two journalists for The Daily Mail chronicling a rescue attempt, jumped out of a boat shortly before it crashed into power lines.
Satellite images show the scale of flooding in towns outside of Houston. Satellite images ©2017 DigitalGlobe.
I followed civilian rescuers as they waded through a Houston building looking for survivors.
Losses on hundreds of thousands of autos will put a burden on underwriters in Texas, particularly regional and local companies.
Many Houston residents were traveling when Hurricane Harvey struck. Now some are in limbo, staying with family or friends on an unexpected “hurrication.”
Solange will perform a benefit concert in Boston on Sept. 28, with all proceeds going toward storm relief efforts.
Nearly two dozen journalists traveled to Texas to document the storm. Back in New York, the national editor, Marc Lacey, ran interference.
Some storm recovery advice for the afflicted of southeast Texas from New Yorkers who have unfortunately been there, unfortunately done this.
There are two ways to respond to the crisis of voter participation in America. Only one is right.
We asked people to show and tell us how Harvey affected them, using photos and voice mail messages. Here are some of their stories.
Juli Rush of Houston was one of hundreds who shared their Harvey experiences through videos, photographs and voice mail messages. "People keep asking us questions like, 'Why didn’t you guys evacuate, why didn’t Houston do a better job?'” Ms. Rush ...
Some families hit hard by Tropical Storm Harvey are choosing to stay in their flooded homes. We take you along a rescue mission in a community in southeast Houston, where some also choose to leave.
The temporary ruling prevents the state from going ahead with controversial provisions that were to go into effect on Friday.
Individuals own fewer than half of all rental units in the United States, according to a recent Census report.
All I can remember is clutching the steering wheel tightly, inching forward as water splashed against the car.
All I can remember is clutching the steering wheel tightly, inching forward as water splashed against the car.
People from Britain to Bangladesh are paying a price for unabated climate change.
New repercussions from the storm emerged overnight, with explosions reported at a chemical plant near Houston and the city of Beaumont said it had lost its water supply.
The episode was one of a host of new dangers that have emerged in the aftermath of the storm as floodwaters recede.
The uniquely American success story of a city built on a swampy bayou, and how Harvey’s destruction recast that narrative.
Houston has begun assessing the damage of Harvey, but the storm marched on to conquer a new swath speckled with small towns and home to millions.
The team was supposed to have played an exhibition in Dallas, but it was canceled and the team took a bus back to Houston, where they can help their families.
As it reels from the impact of Hurricane Harvey, a muscular metropolitan area that embraced growth now wonders whether growth made its flooding woes worse.
With the death toll of Hurricane Harvey climbing to 38, those who survived the storm are just now learning the names of those who did not.
The complex interplay between nature and the world we have created exploded in Houston.
In Mumbai, a megacity of 18 million where torrential rain is an annual reality, the comparisons to Houston have not gone unnoticed.
With the major devastation in the area, it seems worth reminding companies about how generous local taxpayers have been in recent years.
Houston in the wake of Harvey is a study in contrasts: of some neighborhoods moving on and of others doing anything but that.
Homes and shelters were flooded and the largest oil refinery in the U.S. was shut down after heavy rains flooded Port Arthur, east of Houston, overnight Tuesday.
Texas lawmakers say they voted against the 2013 aid bill because it included spending unrelated to Sandy. There’s a factual bone to pick with this claim.
Los Angeles, Detroit, Boston and Chicago are among the other large cities that have imposed restrictions during trying times in the past half-century.
Among the dead were a police sergeant who drowned on his way to work and a retired high school sports coach.
Among the storm’s victims were a married couple checking on family, and a young man who had set out to rescue his sister’s cat.
Follow rescue volunteers in 360-degree video as residents of a Houston neighborhood were evacuated by boats on Tuesday after Tropical Storm Harvey dumped record amounts of rain this week.
The ants spring into survival mode in floods, sticking together to form mats or log-shaped rafts that float through the waters.
After playing three games in Tampa to escape the impact of Hurricane Harvey, the Astros will come home.
Matt Furie, the cartoonist behind a frog now synonymous with the so-called alt-right, has forced the removal of a book with Pepe from distribution.
Remember the photograph of women stuck in rising, murky floodwaters in Dickinson, Tex., on Sunday? Here’s where they are now.
Volunteers came with their vessels from Baton Rouge, La., to Houston to assist in the rescue operation.
Federal officials say they have learned from the mistakes of Katrina and are taking their lead from local leaders. They are poised to help where needed.
After its past failures, the Red Cross has a chance to demonstrate competence and accountability.
Residents of cities in Jefferson County, Tex., about 100 miles east of Houston, called for help on social media as the floodwaters rose.
Even though it’s possible to mitigate the effects of extreme weather, we’re instead making choices that aggravate them.
Arkema said it had expected explosions at its plant in Crosby, about 30 miles from downtown Houston, because it was unable to keep the chemicals cool.
Experts at the center had to race to stay on top of a rapidly strengthening major storm, and let the public know what was coming.
Houston businessman Jim McIngvale opened his mattress store to flood victims, giving hundreds of men, women, children and pets a place to rest.
We should be making lesson plans, but we’re scared for the students who may not have shelter from Hurricane Harvey.
Americans don’t need the president’s “wow” amid Harvey’s woe.
The death toll from Harvey was rising and officials said their rescue effort was nowhere near done.
State and federal policies hostile to undocumented immigrants have added to the stress of a devastating storm.
Alongside a massive local, state and federal disaster response was an equally massive volunteer rescue effort that operated with little official guidance.
Readers from Texas and beyond react to the catastrophe.
As floodwaters rose in Houston, dire warnings spread on social media: File insurance claims by Friday or forfeit some of what you’ve got coming to you. That’s not true.
Supply disruptions and environmental damage raise questions about the concentration of refineries and chemical plants along the exposed Gulf Coast.
Videos reveal the emotional and physical toll of the storm in Houston and the surrounding area.
The New York Times would like to hear from people in the hardest-hit areas in southeast Texas about their experiences dealing with the storm and its aftermath.
The first lady set off for Texas, but her shoes got all the attention. Here’s why.
The church had initially said that its building was inaccessible because of “severe flooding.”
Forecasters needed to explain to people in the storm’s path just how dangerous it was.
A guide to filing an insurance claim, safely using a portable generator, reporting a missing child and more.
As Houston suffers the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, there is a lot of empathy — and anxiety — in New Orleans