Surfside Beach faces a 90-day deadline from Freeport to settle a $400,000 overdue water bill, a debt compounded by Hurricane Beryl's costly recovery efforts

It’s no surprise that students are pushing back on cellphone bans in classrooms.

Coastal flooding is ongoing in several communities along the Texas coast as Potential Tropical Cyclone 1 continues to churn in the Gulf.

Meta will be sunsetting Facebook News in early April for users in the U.S. and Australia as the platform further deemphasizes news and politics.

Federal investigators determining why a Florida condominium tower partially collapsed three years ago have determined there were many faulty support columns in the tenant garage that ran below it and the adjoining pool deck.

The Powerball jackpot has climbed to an estimated $1.73 billion after no one matched the game’s six numbers and won the giant prize.

The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.55 billion after no one matched the game’s six numbers and won the giant prize.

The Powerball jackpot has climbed to an estimated $1.4 billion after no players matched all six numbers and hit it rich.

The Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office said an investigation is underway after the body of a woman was found on the beach near Surfside.

Federal investigators say the swimming pool deck of a beachfront South Florida condominium that collapsed two years ago, killing 98 people, failed to comply with original building codes and standards.

An estimated $785 million Mega Millions jackpot will give lottery players a chance to start the new year with a lucrative bang.

Inflation at the wholesale level rose 8.5% in September from a year earlier, its third straight decline though it is still at a painfully high level.

Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates ticked down modestly this week after six straight weeks of gains pushed rates to heights not seen in more than a decade, before a crash in the housing market triggered the Great Recession in 2008.

Developers and city officials are pushing back on family members’ expectations for a memorial for 98 people who died last year when a beachfront Florida condominium building collapsed.

Homebuyers are regaining leverage at the negotiating table as the housing market slows, new data from Redfin shows.

Meta Platforms says it will no longer pay U.S. news organizations to have their material appear in Facebook's News Tab as it reallocates resources in the economic downturn.

One of the nation’s biggest lottery prizes has grown a little bigger as the Mega Millions jackpot increased to an estimated $1.1 billion.

A cargo plane carrying up to 150,000 pounds of baby formula landed at Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport Sunday morning.

A year has passed since the oceanfront condo building collapse that killed 98 people in Surfside, Florida.

A judge has given final approval to a settlement of more than $1 billion for victims of the collapse of a Florida beachfront condominium.

Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates inched up this week following last week’s mammoth jump, the biggest in 35 years.

The federal investigation into the deadly collapse of a Florida beachfront condominium building is entering a new phase that involves cutting and drilling into concrete and steel to determine what role they played.

A Florida judge has given gave initial approval to a settlement of more than $1 billion to families who lost loved ones in the collapse last year of a Florida beachfront condominium building in which 98 people died.

Attorneys for the families who lost relatives or homes in last year’s collapse of a Florida condominium tower that killed 98 people have reached a $1.02 billion settlement.

Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates fell this week for the second week in a row, though interest rates on the key 30-year home loan remain at decade-high levels.

A billionaire developer from Dubai is set to purchase the site of a South Florida condominium that collapsed last June, killing 98 people, for $120 million after no other bids were submitted by the Friday evening deadline for next week’s auction.

Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates retreated modestly this week, but interest on the key 30-year loan remains at decade-high levels.

Family members of some of the 98 people killed in a Florida condominium collapse last June say they are too deep in mourning to contemplate the nearly $1 billion settlement their attorneys negotiated on their behalf.

Lawyers representing families of victims and survivors of the condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, last June have told a judge that they've reached a nearly $1 billion tentative settlement.

City officials in North Miami Beach ordered residents of a five-story apartment building to evacuate after deeming the building “structurally unsound” during its 50-year recertification process.

Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose again this week as the key 30-year loan rate breached 4.5% and attained its highest level since the end of 2018.

People who owned units in a Florida oceanfront condominium building that collapsed last year will divide $83 million for property losses, with the compensation for families over the 98 deaths still to be determined.

Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose this week as the key 30-year loan vaulted over 4% for the first time since May 2019.

Coca-Cola posted better-than-expected sales in the fourth quarter as venues like coffee shops and movie theaters continued to reopen.

The average long-term mortgage rate in the U.S. ticked back down this week following several weeks of increases.

Australia plans to crack down on online advertisers targeting children by making social media platforms seek parental consent for users younger than 16 years old to join or face fines of $7.5 million under a draft law.

Mortgage rates are hovering near all-time lows, but that could begin to change.

Average long-term mortgage rates declined this week, with the benchmark 30-year loan slipping back below 3%.

The fight over whether the site of June’s deadly Florida condominium collapse should be sold for development or turned into a memorial boiled over during an emotional court hearing.

President Joe Biden’s administration is offering its full-throated support for local cities and school boards in Texas and Florida that are defying orders by their Republican governors that prohibit mask-wearing mandates in schools.

Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts linked to a disinformation network operating out of Russia that sought to smear COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and AstraZeneca.

Efforts to recover human remains from the debris of a South Florida condominium are nearing an end.

A South Florida judge says all options remain on the table as a decision is made over what to do with the property where a 12-story condominium tower collapsed last month.

Recordings of 911 calls after an oceanfront Florida condominium collapsed show disbelief, panic and confusion as people tried to comprehend the disaster.

Officials say a cat that had lived on the ninth floor of a South Florida condo building before it collapsed last month has been found and returned to its family.

The death toll in the Miami-area condominium building collapse has climbed to 95 as crews worked for a 20th day to find victims in the rubble.

Even as crews are continuing their search for the last remaining souls that perished in the collapse of condominium town in Surfside, Florida, questions are swirling across the community about what to do with the property.

The death toll in the Miami-area condominium collapse has climbed to 94.

Authorities searching for victims of a deadly collapse in Florida say they hope to conclude their painstaking work in the coming weeks as a team of first responders from Israel departed the site.

Across Florida, people living in the thousands of condominiums rising above the state’s 1,350 miles of coastline wonder if the building collapse in Surfside could happen to their home.

A Dallas artist was turned away last month when he offered to help dig for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed condo tower near Miami.

Families waiting in agony for news on relatives who were in the Florida condo building when it collapsed are turning to each other for support.

The death toll in the Florida condominium collapse has risen to 79 after 14 additional victims were pulled out of the rubble.

A somber moment of silence marked the end of the two-week search for survivors of a Florida condominium collapse, as rescue workers stood at solemn attention and clergy members hugged a line of local officials while many of them sobbed.

Rescue workers now focused on finding remains instead of survivors in a Florida condominium collapse are vowing to keep up their search for victims until they have cleared all the rubble.

Emergency workers are giving up on any hope of finding survivors in a collapsed Florida condo building.

The condo building collapse in Surfside highlights the division between the tiny Florida town's new luxury buildings and those built decades ago for the middle class.

The vice mayor of a South Florida city says he wants a review of all the work done by a former municipal official who assured condo board members in another city that their building was in “very good shape” three years before it collapsed.

Officials overseeing the search at the site of the Florida condominium collapse seem increasingly somber about the prospects for finding anyone alive.

Legal action is already underway in the deadly Florida building collapse, even before rescuers have finished searching for victims.

As rescuers peel away layer after layer of the collapsed condo building in South Florida, the toll increases.

A fire official says four more victims have been found in the rubble of a collapsed condominium building in Florida, bringing the death toll to 32.

Demolition crews have set off explosives to bring down the remaining portion of a collapsed South Florida condo.

Demolition crews have set off explosives to bring down the remaining portion of a collapsed South Florida condo.

Crews are trying to rescue a cat seen on a lower floor of the remaining wing of a collapsed 12-story condominium complex near Miami.

Rescuers have suspended their search for victims in the rubble of a collapsed South Florida condo building to allow crews to begin preparing the remainder of the structure for demolition ahead of a tropical storm.

Within the span of 36 hours this past week, Jill Biden went from clinking cups of beer with Doug Emhoff, the vice president's spouse, at a baseball game in Houston to joining the president in Florida to comfort families affected by the collapsed condominium building in Surfside.

The city of North Miami Beach has ordered the evacuation of a condominium building after a review found unsafe conditions.

Official say the body of a Miami firefighter’s 7-year-old daughter was recovered from the site of a South Florida condo collapse by the search and rescue team he had been assisting.

The number of people missing in the Florida condominium collapse fell following a new review.

Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava says two additional victims have been found in the rubble of a collapsed condo building in Surfside, Florida, bringing the death toll to 18.

One of the most beloved figures in Miami sports history has visited the site of a Florida condo building collapse.

A former city official who assured leaders that a Florida condo building was in “very good shape” three years before it collapsed has left his new job.

A New York City man bought a beachfront condo in Florida to start a new chapter of his life after his wife and parents died.

As more human remains emerge from the rubble of the collapsed Florida condo tower, the dead now include the first children.

A virtual army of volunteers is offering free food and drink to the hundreds of first responders who have been working nonstop for six days at the site of a partially collapsed Florida condo building.

Weeks before a Florida condo building collapsed, the president of its board wrote that structural problems identified in a 2018 inspection had “gotten significantly worse” and owners needed to pay a hefty price to get them fixed.

Officials say prosecutors in Florida will pursue a grand jury investigation into the deadly collapse of an oceanfront condominium building.

Search and rescue teams from Miami-Dade have been described as among the best and most experienced in the world.

The White House says President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Surfside, Florida, on Thursday to visit with families of the victims of the collapsed Miami-area condominium tower.

About a block from the Miami-area beachfront condominium tower that collapsed sits its sister building.

Florida officials say they have requested help from the federal government as they near the end of the sixth day searching the rubble of a collapsed Florida condo building.

Rescuers searching for a fifth day for survivors of a Florida condo building collapse used bucket brigades and heavy machinery Monday as they worked atop a precarious mound of pulverized concrete, twisted steel and the remnants of dozens of households.

Despite an engineer’s warning of major structural problems, a town building official told board members their Florida high-rise condominium was in “very good shape” almost three years before it collapsed.

The mayor of a Florida town where a beachfront condo tower collapsed says his recent encounter with a little girl near the site reminded him of the enormous impact the tragedy has had on the community.

Rescuers searching for a fifth day for survivors of a Florida condo building collapse used bucket brigades and heavy machinery as they worked atop a precarious mound of debris.

Owners of units in a collapsed Florida oceanfront condo building were just days away from starting to pay for more than $9 million in major repairs that were recommended three years ago.

Families of the missing have visited the scene of the Florida condo building collapse.

A half-dozen scientists and engineers who specialize in disastrous structure failures are headed to south Florida to collect firsthand information on the cause of the catastrophic collapse of Champlain Towers South.

The seaside condominium that collapsed in Florida this week was a true reflection of Miami’s international mix _ South American immigrants, Orthodox Jews, foreign retirees.

Officials don't know what caused a Florida beachside condominium tower to suddenly collapse.

Authorities say search crews have found another body at the site of a 12-story building collapse near Miami, raising the death toll to five.

Four people were killed and 159 people remain unaccounted for after the collapse of a condominium building in Florida, officials said. Search and rescue efforts are ongoing.

Search and rescue teams are trying to detect any sounds coming from survivors of the collapse of a beachside condominium complex near Miami.

Officials say there are still 159 people unaccounted for after the partial collapse of a beachside building in Florida.

Barry Cohen and his wife were sound asleep in their beachside condominium near Miami when he heard what he thought was a crack of thunder.

A woman may have soccer to thank for a decision to not stay overnight in the wing of a 12-story condo building outside of Miami that collapsed.

A wing of a 12-story beachfront apartment building collapsed in a town outside Miami early Thursday morning, killing at least one person while trapping residents in rubble and twisted metal. Scores of rescuers pulled survivors from the debris as a cloud of dust floated through the neighborhood.