Residents in the Deer Park area are finally able to return home as progress is made on the pipeline fire that erupted after an SUV drove over a natural gas pipeline, causing an explosion.

Authorities have halted the evacuation of people who were stuck on Pelican Island after a barge struck the causeway connecting it with Galveston Wednesday morning.

Voluntary evacuation orders have been issued in San Jacinto and Polk counties due to rising waters underneath the Lake Livingston dam.

A reported gas leak at Rice University has prompted the evacuation of several buildings on the northeast side of campus, according to the University’s director of national media relations, Jeff Falk.

Fire and Hazmat crews from multiple agencies are responding to a commercial fire at a recycling plant in Hockley.