Harris County

This week on Texas Matters— The conclusion of the special podcast series "Fumed." Produced in partnership with Public Health Watch, it’s a cautionary tale of what happens when the powerful petrochemical industry takes over an unincorporated community in Harris County and how the residents try to fight back.

Last week’s storm resulted in winds that got up to 100 mph, and was classified a derecho.

Harris, Tarrant and Bexar counties say their local jails are backed up with convicted state prisoners. The state says it's following the law.

The person was immunocompromised, and officials said Tuesday they are trying to determine what role the virus played in the death. This is Texas' first death of someone with monkeypox.

Hidalgo has not been indicted, and has denied any wrongdoing.

Longoria came under fire after her office took more than 24 hours to tally votes, and missed 10,000 mail-in ballots in the final unofficial count. Longoria has also been sued by the county GOP.

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Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo confirmed the news on Monday. It’s the first case in Texas.

After 18 months of a pandemic, high jail populations, infections and deserting staff, county jailers say the pandemic is brining longtime structural issues at county detention to light.

More than 400,000 Harris County homes were without power on Tuesday morning. Galveston received about 14 inches of rain, and Houston saw about 6.5 inches. Wind speeds clocked around 45 to 50 mph in the area.