Faith Bugenhagen

With flu season underway, Walgreens retail pharmacies in Texas will provide free flu vaccines every Friday for uninsured patients through the end of November. Patients can access this no-cost vaccine through vouchers available in-store. Walgreens offers 200,000 of these vouchers annually, and officials with the retail pharmacy chain report that...

Tuesday night's debate between Ohio Senator J.D. Vance and  Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was a restrained affair with few fireworks as each vice presidential candidate discussed matters of policy rather than attack each other.  Was there a winner? That might depend on what camp the voters were in to begin with...

The passage of a resolution to recognize September as National Suicide Prevention Month turned into a heated, nearly 24-minute-long back-and-forth between several Conroe ISD trustees. “I am a bit disappointed that [with] such an important topic, we spent time talking about very unserious matters,” Trustee Stacey Chase said during this...

Nicole and Agustin Alarcon said they don’t know what the next steps of their fertility journey will be after receiving news from their physician that their embryos were affected in a laboratory failure. The husband-and-wife duo started looking into fertility treatments at the end of last year with Aspire Houston...

Nancy Sims, a University of Houston political science lecturer, said she gave Vice President and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris the edge in Tuesday night's presidential debate as Harris was successful in "gracefully baiting" her opponent, former president Donald Trump. According to Sims, the Republican presidential nominee couldn't avoid getting rattled...

Local meteorologists are monitoring the Gulf Coast as Tropical Storm Francine develops. It is forecasted to move toward Texas’s neighbor to the east, Louisiana. Francine began as a tropical wave, entering the Gulf of Mexico on Friday as a cluster of undeveloped storms before organizing into the sixth named tropical...

Native Houstonians and recent Bayou City transplants are accustomed to waiting for the ball to drop when it comes to hurricanes. After all, many are still recovering two months after Beryl. Matt Lanza, meteorologist with Space City Weather, advised residents not to get ahead of themselves as the Atlantic hurricane...

LGBTQ advocacy and civil rights organizations are evaluating what procedures were bypassed by the Department of State Health Services after the agency quietly rolled out a policy change that blocks the ability for transgender Texans to change their gender on birth certificates. “We’re trying to create solutions,” Andrea Segovia, policy...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton continues to forge ahead on what voter and civil rights advocates describe as his "voter suppression" campaign after warning Harris and Bexar county officials to pause their respective efforts to increase voter registration. In a press release on Monday, Paxton rebuked the proposed plans to...

In true “Mattress Mack” fashion, Jim McIngvale announced he would return to work on Tuesday morning after spending Labor Day weekend in the hospital. The Gallery Furniture founder and Houston-area philanthropist arrived home after a three-day stay at St. Luke’s Hospital, where he was diagnosed with a severe case of...