A Fifth Ward mother says her rental turned into a health hazard, with months of sewage backups and raw wastewater, and that ...

Some residents of Houston's Fifth Ward, where there is ongoing soil and water testing for cancer-causing toxic chemicals, now have the opportunity to receive free cancer screenings as part of a new ...

A Fifth Ward mother says she is facing eviction after living for months with sewage backing up inside her rental home. Her ...

HOUSTON – Union Pacific has released the final round of soil testing results from the area surrounding the former Houston Wood Preserving Works site in the city’s Fifth Ward, confirming no immediate ...

After decades of watching their neighborhoods suffer from industrial contamination, residents of Houston's Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens thought they were finally getting some compensation. Last ...

HOUSTON (KIAH) — New video captured on social media of a train derailment in Houston’s Fifth Ward is drawing attention online. Byron Smith captured and posted a dramatic video of the incident and ...

Pictured is a hazy Houston sky in 2016. As President Donald Trump's administration slashes federal spending deemed wasteful, the Environmental Protection Agency cancelled $1.5 million in funding for a ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The federal government will soon release the results of soil tests from Houston's Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens neighborhoods. The area has been known as a cancer cluster ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- ABC13 has been following for a while the reports of cancer-causing chemicals and its effects on the residents of Fifth Ward for decades. On Friday, the Houston Health ...

Residents in two predominantly Black and Brown communities say they are frustrated and disappointed after learning the U.S. Department of Justice has ended its oversight connected to illegal dumping ...

HOUSTON — Illegal dumping has been a persistent problem in Houston's Fifth Ward, something KHOU 11 has been spotlighting for more than a year. From piles of trash to dumped mattresses and even an ...

See our slideshow of the youth football league at work and at play. The dark gray Chevy truck rolls backwards onto a fence-enclosed field, with grass the color of hay, in the heart of the Fifth Ward.