Giving low-income families extra money during pregnancy can help babies get a healthier start to life, new research shows. Expectant parents who received monthly cash payments through a short-lived ...

Just this week, the president froze billions in funding for renewable-energy projects in Democrat-led states amidst a wider ...

Decades of progress on children’s health coverage is being slowly erased, with the U.S. rate now at a 10-year high. Texas ...

Last year, state epidemiologists studied an industrialized region east of Houston. They reported finding high rates of cancer ...

Connie Boulware, of Houston, opens up half her duplex as a “hub house” to residents forced out of their homes by hurricanes or other disasters. She wishes Harris County officials were better-prepared ...

Lynda Smith has been living with epilepsy for almost two decades and struggled for years to get her seizures under control. She’s been uninsured ever since moving back to Texas and can’t qualify for ...

Maria Alanis hands her mother, Isabel, a flower outside their home in Brownsville, Texas. Maria has been a full-time caregiver since her mother was diagnosed with dementia in 2018. Credit: Miguel ...

Industrial plants and chemical storage tanks as seen from the San Jacinto Monument just north of Deer Park, Texas. The city is surrounded by more than 20 chemical plants subject to the HON rule.

Rosie Brown, executive director at East Carroll Community Action Agency in Lake Providence, La., said people are still struggling to make ends meet in the Delta. “We still have people who are working ...