Updated: 9:09 PM Tropical Storm Agatha, the first of the season, slammed into Guatemala's Pacific coast on Saturday, its torrential rains triggering landslides and floods that left at least 12 people dead.
Updated: 2:16 PM An "active to extremely active" hurricane season is expected for the Atlantic Basin this year according to the seasonal outlook issued Thursday by NOAA's Climate Prediction Center.
Updated: 2:16 PM Forecasters say Tropical Storm Claudette has formed off the northern Gulf Coast of Florida and is expected to bring heavy rain to the area.
Updated: 2:16 PM MIAMI -- The government of the Netherland Antilles issued a tropical storm watch for St. Maarten, Saba and St. Eustatius on Saturday as Ana raced west through the Atlantic. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Bill, formed further to the east and forecasters said they expected it to strengthen.
Updated: 11:00 PM As power comes back on, hurricane evacuees are returning home and more and more hotel rooms are becoming available in the twin cities.
Updated: 10:53 PM More than 1,600 evacuees from Hurricane Ike who have been housed in North Texas will start returning to their homes along the Gulf Coast on Monday.
Posted: 8:12 PM Officials warned Saturday that rats, raw sewage and a strict curfew await exiled residents who try to return to storm-wrecked Galveston Island when it reopens next week.
Posted: 7:45 PM Officials there say about 300 special needs patients are still at the arena, along with hundreds of public health service personnel, nursing assistants and med students.
Updated: 6:56 PM Hurricane evacuees say they're scrambling to find hotel rooms this weekend after being forced to evacuate again, this time for Aggie football fans. But News Three found vacancies at several B/CS hotels.
Posted: 10:47 AM The federal government will reimburse the state of Texas and affected local governments for 100 percent of eligible emergency debris-removal work and emergency protective measures performed for a 14-day period retroactive to Sept. 13, the date of President Bush's major disaster declaration for Hurricane Ike.
Updated: 1:26 AM State Senator Steve Ogden said if Entergy Texas doesn't restore power to parts of the Brazos Valley by Wednesday, the state will step in with a different provider.
Posted: 11:00 PM Tuesday, H-E-B launched a statewide tear pad campaign in stores to help support victims of Hurricane Ike. The campaign offers H-E-B customers an opportunity to join H-E-B’s hurricane relief efforts by adding a donation in increments of $1, $3, or $5 to their total grocery bill. Donations will be distributed to disaster relief agencies that will help thousands of Texas evacuees in need.
Posted: 8:55 PM This is a special update from Mid South Synergy. For three days we have been able to maintain power service to most of Brazos, Grimes, Walker and Madison counties through back feeds from the ERCOT grid.