Welcome to Heat Week. From July 1 until July 5, Chron is looking at how heat has defined our lives in Houston and Texas—the good, the bad and the sweaty. It's ubiquitous now, but there was a time when ...

Hundreds of thousands of southeast Texas residents are entering the sixth day in a row suffering brutal heat without air conditioning and many are scrambling to find cool shelters, food, safe drinking ...

Correction, May 21 10:33 a.m.: This article has been updated to reflect that the temperature measured in Pershing Middle School was in the mid 80-degree range at around 8:30 a.m., not 87.5 degrees, ...