In the first few months of my tenure here at the Houston Chronicle, a mysterious Twitter account calling itself ChronTemperature popped up, memorializing on the internet forever the struggles of ...

ExxonMobil Corporation, LyondellBasell Industries, and Chevron Phillips Chemical contribute to 60 percent of the toxic chemical releases in Harris County, according to a report released Tuesday by Air ...

A Texas woman says her parents were found dead after their air conditioner broke during a heat wave. Roxana Floods said air-conditioning companies should "warn people about how lethal this heat is." ...

Houston is aiming to give some 220 residents air conditioning units this summer in a bid to offset a limited schedule for the city’s cooling centers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mayor Sylvester ...

We learn the role air conditioning played in making Houston the massive, sprawling city it is today — for better or worse. Houston's summers can be oppressively hot and muggy. That's why most ...

HOUSTON — We take it for granted now, but there was time only decades ago when we didn’t have the luxury of living in air conditioning. In fact, air conditioning has been so influential, it’s one of ...

Houston's summers can be oppressively hot and muggy. That's why most Houstonians crank up the A/C from June through September, if not most of the rest of the year too. It might not be the most ...