How to make your home safer in tornadoes, hurricanes

Severe weather season is here and hurricane season is fast approaching. There are steps you can take now to make your home safer when a storm hits.

How to make your home more tornado resilient
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Consumer Reporter Heather Sullivan explains how you can make your home more tornado resilient.

When normal venting turns into trauma dumping

Psychotherapist Mary Jo Rapini shares the signs of trauma dumping and what to do if you are the recipient.

Beating high gas prices: How to use METRO public transit

With gas prices so high, one way to save big is to take public transit. If you haven't used Houston's METRO system, we went to the experts, METRO, and experienced riders, for advice to make it easy.

Beating high gas prices: How to use Metro public transit
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If you haven't used Houston's Metro system, we went to the experts, Metro and experienced riders, for advice to make it easy. The American Public Transportation Association says taking public transit can save a household $10,000 a year.

Proper car maintenance can help lower your gasoline costs
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FOX 26 Consumer Reporter Heather Sullivan has some smart sense on what you can do with your vehicle to save gasoline costs in the future.

Why spring flowers actually bloom breakups

Psychotherapist Mary Jo Rapini explains some of the reasons there are more breakups in the spring.

Blogger feeding family of 5 on $100 a week
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FOX 26 Consumer Reporter Heather Sullivan spoke with one blogger who is feeding a family of 5 on $100 a week amid inflation increase.

Elected officials try to shift blame in violent crime from judges to bail bonding industry

Last week, Harris County Commissioners Court took aim at the bail bonding industry saying it was part of the reason for the rise in violent crime. Why? For not requiring defendants to pay 10% percent of the bond amount.

On-time rent payments can now boost credit scores

All three credit bureaus and Fannie Mae now accept rent payments toward credit scores and loans.

Rent payments can now boost your credit score
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All three credit bureaus are starting to accept rent payments as a form of building credit scores.

THE MISSING: Where is Joshua?
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Joshua Davis has been missing for more than a decade. In our ongoing series, FOX 26?s Kaitlin Monte spoke with Joshua's maternal grandmother, Natalie Vargas, about the family's ongoing search.