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The top elected officials in Houston and Harris County are urging residents to prepare for sustained freezing and wet weather as an arctic blast blows toward the region. Temperatures within the city limits are expected to drop below freezing from Sunday night through Tuesday morning - and could get as low as the teens on Monday - and sustained precipitation also is in the forecast. Jeff Lindner, a meteorologist with the Harris County Flood Control District, said during a news conference Friday afternoon that the region should expect to see freezing rain, sleet, snow or "all three." As a resul...

Houston plans on vaccinating nearly 12K people with second dose of COVID vaccine this week Chloe Alexander Replay Video The city of Houston is working day-by-day to improve its COVID vaccination process. With the shipment of more vaccines from the state, the city is on track with vaccinating thousands of more people this week, including administering the second dose of the vaccine. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said the Houston Health Department has received a total of 18,600 second doses of the COVID vaccine and will be administering those doses to nearly 12,000 Houstonians ...

Houston Fire Department battle heats up as city of Houston fires union president KTRK Share: HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The city of Houston Thursday confirmed it had suspended union president Marty Lancton indefinitely, government speak for a firing. It comes six weeks after Lancton says the city stopped paying his salary and is the latest in a bitter battle between firefighters, the department and Mayor Sylvester Turner. Under the last several union contracts, the president of the Houston Professional Fire Fighters Association president is paid an HFD salary but assigned full time to union dut...

The WYP panel talks about the Lt. Governor's recent trip to Houston to try and reconcile the Houston Firefighters Union and the city of Houston over the pay parity issue.

Lt. Governor offers to broker labor deal between firefighters, Houston mayor article HOUSTON - Their lives on the line, Houston firefighters and paramedics are battling through this deadly pandemic at the same rate of pay they earned a decade ago, actually less, when factoring in inflation. After years of stalled contract negotiations and with the process still locked in a bitter stalemate, Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick has offered to intervene. "The idea that the City of Houston will not sit down and talk through this bothers me at a state level, because you are not just the Mayor's consti...