Addicks News

Afraid that small children might get smacked by flying discs, Bellaire City Council on Monday postponed action on a city parks board proposal to rescue $50,000 in grant funding by adding a six-hole disc golf course to Bellaire Town Square.

In the grip of the most intense dry spell in the city's history, with the annual rainfall nearly two feet below normal, worries about walls of water racing down Buffalo Bayou into the heart of Houston might seem far-fetched. However, that's a scenario raised in a 2010 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers study of the Addicks and Barker dams to the west of ... (more)

Firefighters are keeping wary eyes this morning on a stubborn wildfire that has charred hundreds of acres since it began earlier this week near Addicks Reservoir in west Houston.

The Sierra Club has filed a lawsuit to block construction of the Grand Parkway in west Harris County until federal and state officials conduct a new analysis of the flooding consequences.

The Sierra Club, represented by Houston attorney James Blackburn , filed the suit Aug.