Texas universities continue to set the pace in higher education. 

Showers and storms could be headed our way. 

At the center of the dispute is how insurers price "out-of-network" care.

The "FoodWithBearHands" star was killed after a "disturbance involving a knife."

A new 80-home community in southeast Houston aims to blend affordability and innovation.

Houston, we have a (global) problem.

Houston dominates new education rankings, but HISD’s state takeover and enrollment drops complicate the picture. 

Tonight could bring a second unforgettable northern lights spectacle to Texas. 

Affordability ticked up slightly in Houston this fall.

She'll join Sofia Ojeda behind the anchor desk in December. 

Residents shared photos of the colorful glow lighting up the night sky. 

"I don't care what your political persuasion is..."

Observers catch the first clear shots since the comet passed behind the Sun. 

Turkey prices are up 70 percent from 2024. 

Officials say it could take days to confirm the dam's safety.

The soft drink business is taking a hit during the coronavirus pandemic.

Congress is currently working on a new coronavirus relief package that could potentially benefit millions of Americans, and some Texas mayors are calling on the delegation to make sure the measure includes "direct and flexible fiscal assistance to all cities across the nation."

Abigail Disney said she is in full support of taxing wealthy people in the aftermath of Covid-19.

The Federal Reserve is now blaming the coronavirus pandemic for another shortage: coins.

It's a day for the Black community to flex its economic muscle.

The coronavirus pandemic robbed Texas of its spring tourism season and now threatens to steal summer, too.

The state unemployment rate is 13 percent.

As of the last week of May, nearly 650,000 claimants were still waiting for their unemployment benefits to be approved or denied.

About 94,000 people in Texas applied for unemployment benefits last week, a slight tick up from 90,000 the previous week, but well below the spikes in late March and early April that surpassed 300,000 per week, according to the Department of Labor.

Texas is reinstating its requirement that unemployed people must be actively searching for work in order to continue receiving unemployment benefits on July 6.

About 90,000 people in Texas applied for unemployment benefits last week, the first time claims have dropped below 100,000 per week in more than two months.

While manufacturing continued to contract in May, the pace of decline slowed compared to April.

Key sectors of the Texas economy were among the hardest hit nationally in April, according the Labor Department's employment report. Texas reports state and regional employment statistics for April on May 22.

Another nearly 250,000 people filed for first-time unemployment benefits in Texas last week, according to a weekly report from the Department of Labor, as measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus combined with the worst oil bust in history have left 2 million Texans jobless.

Since March when business shutdowns began to prevent exposure to COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, more than 33 million in the U.S. have filed applications for benefits.

Last week alone, 3.1 million Americans filed a claim.

While the figures have slowed from their peak of nearly 7 million claims per week in the U.S. at the end of March, weekly first-time claims are still about 15 times higher than pre-pandemic levels. The total number of people collecting benefits is well over three times the peak of the Great Recession.

In Texas, the Texas Workforce Commission, which administers unemployment benefits, has received three times the number of claims submitted in the state during all of 2019.

Even with the huge numbers of claims, the data still likely understates the extent of economic damage from the coronavirus in Texas and across the U.S., since overwhelmed state websites and phone lines prevent an untold number of people from filing...

A data center outage Thursday afternoon temporarily threw the Texas Workforce Commission — and other state agencies — offline as they were working to process the thousands of claims.