Caroline Ghisolfi

Texas homeowners are facing some of the highest home insurance costs in areas at high risk of catastrophic climate change.

Change at HPD followed Chronicle investigation of a surge in chases from 2018 through 2022 that killed at least 10 innocent bystanders.

Hurricane Beryl broke Houston-area records with unprecedented blackouts and sustained wind. Here's how it compares to other major storms in 4 charts.

Two months after May’s derecho took CenterPoint Energy’s outage-tracking map down, the utility’s data systems are still malfunctioning on an unprecedented scale, new data shows. In the wake of Hurricane Beryl, the ongoing technical challenges are exacerbating concerns about CenterPoint’s ability to adequately track and respond to power issues in real time. On Monday, as millions dealt in the dark with Beryl’s landfall – and the flooding, oppressive heat and storm damage that followed – the uti…

Millions lost power when Hurricane Beryl stormed through the greater Houston area Monday. And it showed, even from space. Satellite images captured by NASA Monday night show large swaths of darkness in Houston’s suburbs, which are usually brightly lit. City lights also dimmed Monday evening as millions of Houstonians remained without power, the images show. The deadly storm, which made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane near Matagorda in the middle of the Texas Gulf Coast early Monday morning,…

Track where people in Houston have filed 311 complaints regarding street hazards, problems with traffic signals, electrical hazards and storm debris after the deadly storm.

More than 54,000 oil and gas wells in Texas are associated with dangerous concentrations of hydrogen sulfide. This invisible poisonous gas can be deadly at high levels of direct exposure. Chronic low-level exposure can also be hazardous, and has been linked to neurological and other health problems. Residents living near leaking facilities have reported a litany of ailments including headaches and nausea. But state regulators have downplayed these risks for years. INVESTIGATION: Texas oil compa…

Genesse Moreno, the woman who opened fire at Houston’s Lakewood Church on Feb. 11, had a troubling history of mental illness and violent behavior. Police, court officials and child welfare workers knew about it and had the authority to intervene, a Chronicle investigation found. They never did. The Chronicle set out to collect records detailing every interaction Moreno had with government authorities in the decade leading up to the attack, which left a 57-year-old man wounded and the shooter’s 7…

Genesse Moreno had dozens of run-ins with police before she opened fire on Houston’s Lakewood Church on February 11. Often in the grips of panic or paranoia, Moreno told officers that she was afraid for her and her son’s lives, that people were in “cahoots” against her, and that she was armed and ready to fight back. Twice, she threatened to shoot people on recorded 911 lines. Her family members and neighbors also warned police, child welfare workers and court officials that Moreno was stockpil…

A plan to pull back on Harris County’s decades-long practice of subsidizing extra police patrols for neighborhoods that can afford them — which critics say allows “boutique” policing for the rich — sparked outrage among two prominent Republican lawmakers after it was presented to Commissioners Court. Hundreds of neighborhood associations across the county partner with the sheriff’s office or one of the eight constable’s offices to deploy some 1,200 “contract deputies,” typically covering 70% of…