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Corporate volunteer days, also known as corporate volunteering or employee volunteer programs, have become an increasingly popular trend in the business world. Companies typically allocate a day or a specific period of time for its employees to engage in various volunteer activities for the betterment of local communities or charitable organizations.

Record-breaking temperatures in the US and Europe are intensifying the demand for rules protecting construction workers from extreme heat. Lucy Barnard finds out more. A pair of weathered boots outside Houston’s City Hall on Friday 14 July honoured Filipe Pascual, a 46-year-old construction worker who collapsed at a job site in Fort Bend County, Texas…

The intense heat that continues to engulf Houston has the potential to cause anyone who spends too much time outside to be hospitalized — and it can quickly turn deadly for vulnerable residents. Driving the news: The Houston region recorded its third death related to heat exposure earlier this…

The Austin burger chain’s first location might be a drive for anyone not in Katy.

More burger news for Houston: P. Terry’s Burger Stand, a popular hamburger restaurant out of Austin, has signed a lease for one of its first locations in the Houston area. Todd Coerver, CEO of P. Terry’s, confirmed that the company recently signed a pad lease with San Antonio-based H-E-B LP at 9211 FM 723 in…

HOUSTON – The City of Houston, Harris and Fort Bend County health departments are encouraging everyone to wash fruits, vegetables and hands when preparing food because of an outbreak of Cyclospora. Cyclospora is a GI disease that is common this type of year, but the health departments are noticing more of it than usual.

HOUSTON – The City of Houston, Harris and Fort Bend County Health Departments are encouraging everyone to wash fruits, vegetables and hands when preparing food because of an outbreak of Cyclospora. Cyclospora is a GI disease that is common this type of year but the health departments are noticing more of it than usual.

Three public health agencies in and around Houston, TX, warn residents to look for infections from a foodborne parasite. The parasite, cyclospora, cannot be seen by the naked eye and can cause severe gastronomical illnesses that require antibiotics. The parasite is commonly found in fresh produce. Food safety experts say washing produce does not necessarily…

Health officials are warning Houstonians about a local outbreak causing severe cases of diarrhea.

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — Health officials are warning residents in the Greater Houston area about an illness caused by “an intestinal parasite.” Reports of Cyclospora cases are on the rise, and while the illness is non-life-threatening, cases have been linked to people who consume fresh produce and pre-packaged salad mixes.

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — Health officials are warning residents in the Greater Houston area about an illness caused by “an intestinal parasite.” Reports of Cyclospora cases are on the rise, and while the illness is non-life-threatening, cases have been linked to people who consume fresh produce and pre-packaged salad mixes.

HOUSTON – Health officials in the city of Houston, Harris County, and Fort Bend County said they received reports of an increased number of cyclospora infections in recent weeks. Cyclospora is a non-life-threatening gastrointestinal illness caused by an intestinal parasite, according to officials. People may get cyclospora by consuming…

NewQuest Properties is bringing another multifamily project to Richmond, a growing municipality in Fort Bend County. Named the Grand at Aliana II, the three-story complex will span 361,000 square feet, costing an estimated $46 million price tag, according to a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. The number of units wasn’t revealed,…

HOUSTON — Unwanted deliveries are showing up in mailboxes throughout Memorial Villages and the police department even suspects some of them have gone unreported. “We think some of the residents may have seen them and obviously realized it was a scam and discarded them,” Memorial Villages Police Det. Christopher Rodriguez said.

The Texas construction worker’s death came in June amid an ongoing historic heat wave scorching the state.

A Houston-area construction worker died from exposure to extreme heat earlier this month after collapsing on the job in Fort Bend County. News of the death comes as a historic heat wave continues to punish Texas, with 110-plus degree heat index levels covering much of the state for days on end.

A Houston police officer was left injured following a motorcycle crash with another vehicle Saturday in Fort Bend County, according to the Houston Police Department. The collision was reported around 1:38 p.m. in the 16800 block of Park Manor. It is unknown if the officers was on or off duty…

The heat wave that has gripped the Houston region this month has turned deadly. Houston resident Felipe Pascual, 46, died from hyperthermia on June 16 – around the time the region began seeing daily high temperatures near or above 100 degrees – according to chief investigator John Florence of the Galveston County Medical Examiner’s Office.…

FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas — The death of a Houston man who collapsed while working outside was caused by the heat, according to the Galveston County Medical Examiner. Felipe Pascaul, 46, was pouring concrete at a job site in Fort Bend County when he collapsed and went into cardiac arrest, the ME said. He was…

Houston police are looking for additional victims following the arrest of a Fort Bend County man accused of drugging and sexually assaulting three women. Investigators say 31-year-old Uffot Williams sexually assaulted at least three women between October 2021 and January 2022. Police believe Williams met the three women online and met up with them at…

A Fort Bend County man has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting three women he met online — and Houston police investigators believe there may be more women who’ve fallen victim to the man’s attacks in recent years. At a news conference Thursday, investigators laid out the…

HOUSTON — June 19, 1865, better known as Juneteenth, is the day when freedom came to the last of the enslaved people. Plantation owners in Texas ignored the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 until General Gordon Granger and thousands of soldiers, many of them being U.S. African American troops, came to Galveston two years later, officially…

HOUSTON — June 19, 1865, better known as Juneteenth, is the day when freedom came to the last of the enslaved people. Plantation owners in Texas ignored the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 until General Gordon Granger and thousands of soldiers, many of them being U.S. African American troops, came to Galveston two years later, officially…