As part of the next update of the Texas State Flood Plan, the San Jacinto Regional Flood-Planning Group (SJRFPG) recently ...

9/29/26 – The remnants of Pacific Hurricane Polo will bring heavy rain to Texas in the next four days and produce a slight-to-moderate risk of flash flooding. The heaviest rainfall will likely focus ...

9/28/26 – This morning, Dr. Dawn Buckingham, Texas General Land Office (GLO) Commissioner, announced a one-year deadline extension to finish projects that use Community Development Block Grant Funds ...

Harris County just passed the largest tax increase in its history. But it provides very little transparency in how it spends ...

9/24/26 – At Houston City Council Member Fred Flickinger’s town hall meeting in Kingwood on 9/22/26, Tom Broad, the chair of the Lake Houston Redevelopment Authority/TIRZ 10 Board, gave an update on ...

At the 9/22/26 Meeting of the Harris County Community Flood Resilience Task Force, Harris County Engineering discussed its ...

9/23/26 – Houston City Council Member Fred Flickinger’s October 2026 town hall meeting featured three speakers on the project to add more floodgates to the Lake Houston dam. In his opening remarks, ...

Academic research into flooding suggests that “Flood protection tends to reduce small floods, but increases the consequences of rare, large floods.” This is one of the central ideas in modern ...