HOUSTON — The Fifth Ward community can expect to see $20 million worth of change thanks to a grant from the Environmental ...

Fifth Ward’s Hester House will now be surrounded by a fence after new test results revealed elevated levels of highly toxic dioxins in the soil. The Environmental Protection Agency and Union ...

The Trump administration is rolling back a division in the EPA that was designed to help address pollution in Black and ...

Virgil Hobson, 57, and Christopher Williams, 49, both Democrats will appear on the ballot for Rockford's Fifth Ward. With ...

Harris County officials, including Commissioner Rodney Ellis and Congressman Sylvester Turner, will address the public about the EPA's findings of dioxin contamination at the Julia C. Hester House in ...

Hester House. The dioxin levels found in the dirt outside the Fifth Ward recreation center exceed the EPA's screening standard for children by five times. The EPA website states, "Dioxins are ...

A recent study from the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) and Union Pacific has found high levels of a cancer-causing toxin, dioxin, near a recreation center in a Fifth Ward ...

at the Fifth Ward police station, by Coroner WILDEY: JAMES H. GILBRAITH, of No. 125 West Twenty-eighth-street, sworn -- I saw deceased and another man, whose name 1 have since learned is YELVERTON ...

Test results show hazardous materials are present at a community center in Houston's Fifth Ward. FOX 26's Anthony Antoine has ...

The contaminated area is surrounded by a basketball court, playground, public park, and swimming pool, which is located across the street from an elementary school.