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Man arrested for felony water pollution, HPD says

  • Dec 17, 2025

Houston's Fifth Ward cancer cluster leads to groundbreaking research

  • Mar 14, 2025

People living in Fifth Ward to be screened for cancer indicators

  • Mar 11, 2025

EPA holds meeting for residents in Houston's known cancer cluster

  • Feb 28, 2025

'Toxic' cancer-causing compounds outside Fifth Ward facility, EPA says

  • Feb 11, 2025

Deadline approaches for people in known Houston cancer cluster

  • Nov 30, 2024

HHA CEO resigns amid leave during investigation

  • Nov 19, 2024

Houston Housing Authority CEO placed on paid leave amid federal probe

  • Oct 30, 2024

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City of Houston offering loans for those who redevelop possibly contaminated properties

  • Mar 3
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Man at East Houston oil company arrested, charged with felony water pollution, HPD says

  • Dec 17, 2025
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People living in Fifth Ward to be screened for cancer indicators

  • Mar 11, 2025
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EPA shares soil testing results to Fifth Ward, Kashmere Gardens residents in known cancer cluster

  • Feb 28, 2025
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EPA to share soil testing results to Fifth Ward, Kashmere Gardens residents in known cancer cluster

  • Feb 27, 2025
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'Toxic' cancer-causing compounds outside Fifth Ward facility, EPA says

  • Feb 11, 2025
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Deadline approaches for homeowners in known cancer cluster to allow soil testing for contamination

  • Nov 30, 2024
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HHA CEO resigns amid leave during investigation

  • Nov 19, 2024

Latest Stories

13 Investigates: HHA site under federal investigation purchased for 4x appraised value

13 Investigates found the Houston Housing Authority property federal investigators spent the last three days drilling at was purchased for four times more than what the county appraised it at.

  • Oct 25, 2024

Federal probe continues amid questions about Houston Housing Authority: 'Violated all the rules'

City officials are now questioning why the Houston Housing Authority site contaminated by toxic ash was selected for affordable housing in the first place.

  • Oct 24, 2024

Houston Housing Authority under federal investigation after toxic ash found on Main Street complex

Toxic ash from a former trash incineration plant was found buried on a portion of the site last year, although the Housing Authority has long maintained the soil, which is fine where The Pointe at Bayou Bend apartments were built.

  • Oct 23, 2024

Environmental studies and soil collection for chemical testing underway in Fifth Ward

Union Pacific began months-long soil testing around the contaminated Union Pacific Rail Yard, where ABC13 had covered cancer cluster concerns in Fifth Ward for years.

  • Jun 6, 2024

Texas Health Department finds no relation of Fifth Ward cancer cluster and chemicals used by railway

A 2022 study by the City of Houston said chemicals used by Union Pacific were the catalyst to several cancer diagnoses of Kashmere Gardens residents, now the Texas Health Department chimed in and gave another answer.

  • Sep 2, 2023