A gunman opened fire in Houston on Monday just before daybreak, wounding nine people before police shot and killed him, police said.
A woman has been killed after a truck carrying airbag parts made by Japan's troubled Takata exploded in a massive fireball on a US highway, the firm confirmed Tuesday.
The death of an infant born with the birth defect microcephaly in the Houston area has been linked to the Zika virus, with the baby becoming infected in the womb while the mother traveled to Latin America ...
The company whose hot air balloon crashed in central Texas on Saturday, killing 16 people including its owner, said on Monday it was suspending operations following one of the deadliest balloon accidents on record.
A gunman killed a woman and seriously wounded three others in Austin early on Sunday when he shot into a crowd as people streamed out of nightclubs in the Texan capital's downtown area, police said.
At least 16 people were feared dead when a hot air balloon caught fire and crashed in a pasture near the central Texas city of Lockhart on Saturday, according to federal and local authorities.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets in US cities on Friday after a black extremist shot dead five cops during a peaceful march against police brutality in Texas.
Qatar expects exports from its Golden Pass joint venture in Texas to begin in 2021, an adviser to the government said on Wednesday.
Ted Cruz's Super Tuesday victories in his home state of Texas and neighbouring Oklahoma strengthened his odds for the Republican presidential nomination on online betting sites but he still trails far behind Donald Trump.
Two major Texas health centres have developed what they are calling the country's first hospital-based, rapid test for the Zika virus that can produce results in a matter of hours.
US authorities said two people with ties to the Islamic State group are due in court in California and Texas, including a refugee from Syria accused of returning there to fight alongside IS.
With temperatures above freezing at the North Pole, deadly tornadoes in Texas, extreme heat in Australia and floods in Britain and Missouri, the world is beset by extreme weather events as it welcomes 2016.
