59 corridor, where the East Fork of the San Jacinto River had overspread the roadway. Officials urged residents to avoid driving through standing water, warning it can be impossible to tell how ...

Some residents believe it may be linked to decades-old hazardous waste pits in the San Jacinto River. The residents hope the report will motivate the EPA to force the landowners to clean the site up.

Even as area residents remembered cancer losses and reflected on the study at the San Jacinto Community Center Monday afternoon, they said many warnings go unheeded near the river. Less than ...

A large swath of East Harris County along the San Jacinto River — where toxic waste was identified more than a decade ago — was found to have “significantly greater” instances of some ...

Licensed midwife 49-year-old Maria Rojas is facing charge of performing illegal abortion and practicing medicine without a license Spring is in the air, and it's time to get ready for nicer ...

The study, which was published earlier this month, analyzed cancer rates across 65 census tracts surrounding the San Jacinto River both upstream and downstream of the San Jacinto River Waste Pits ...

The San Jacinto River Waste pits, an EPA Superfund site which is contaminated with dioxins, sits right on Interstate 10 east of Houston on Oct. 12, 2014. Credit: Michael Stravato for Te Texas Tribune ...