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Lots of men live with the challenge of carrying on their family’s legacy. Tony Gregory’s just weighs 27,000 tons, is nearly two football fields long and could — but probably won’t — sink into Galveston Bay on Wednesday. Gregory, president of the Battleship Texas Foundation, will watch from land as the warship his grandfather helped Continue reading

Dust kicking up from his heels, Roger Adamson said he would be perfectly content if this pristine piece of land south of Richmond owned by The George Foundation stayed mostly untouched, dirt road and all. Growth in Fort Bend County and the rest of the region is coming, however, and somewhere along this flat stretch Continue reading

Temporary tags are, it seems, a permanent fixture around Houston. Everyone sees them, many flapping in the wind on the backs of cars in front of them on the freeway. They are on BMWs parked in the back of Sharpstown apartment complexes and Audis idling outside the Westin Galleria. Often, even the untrained eye can Continue reading

Cody Foster knows how tough it can be to cross Westcott on Blossom, just steps from Memorial Park. Driving south on Westcott once, Foster recalls having to slam the brakes to avoid hitting a boy on a bicycle who darted in front of his car. On Wednesday it was Foster, out on a run near Continue reading

Lockwood Drive looked like a parking lot — and a disorganized one at that — south of Harrisburg Tuesday afternoon. Drivers idled in their cars, some stepping out to stretch or use the phone. Delivery drivers, even a Metro bus turned away, taking their chances on a detour through the East End rather than wait Continue reading

The coronavirus pandemic sparked a surge in bike sales and bike riding across the Houston region at a time when pedaling — and driving — area streets is deadlier than ever. A sharp drop in driving could not stop road fatalities from reaching a record high based on data compiled by the Texas Department of Continue reading

Names add faces, but it’s the details that put the true horror to the reality on Texas’ roads. One day it’s two or three people, killed in a head-on crash on Interstate 45 in Buffalo and a city street in Sugar Land. The following Friday it is 15, mostly drunken-driving solo crashes. A couple in Continue reading

The story of Houston’s growth and its roads has always been about bigger. More people has meant more concrete, farther into the suburbs and wider in the dense core. Now, state transportation officials are starting to re-write that, planning major projects focused on managed lanes along key freeways that encourage transit and carpool use, while Continue reading

A Baytown-based Mexican restaurant group thought it had come up with a catchy, perfectly cheesy phrase for its newest billboard: Don’t Mess with Tex-Mex. El Toro’s corporate leaders were so taken with it, they applied for a trademark on the phrase. Nacho fast, the Texas Department of Transportation said. TxDOT lawyers on Tuesday filed a Continue reading

Wherever Armando Litchenberger looks around Urbana Recording Studio, there are memories. The stool Jose Feliciano sat on to record a couple tracks. Goldie Hawn used the studio to mix the soundtrack for a TV movie she directed. Duran Duran re-cut a guitar track that didn’t test well while on a world tour. “There are memories Continue reading