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New local and FEMA assistance is coming available to help many Houston area families living without water and in homes that are severely damaged by burst pipes from last week's ice storm.

Survivor’s guilt, whether irrational or rational, is normal. Although it may or may not go away over time, these suggestions can help you cope.

Houston businesses continue to show compassion to their communities by doing their part to help those in need that have been affected by the winter storm.

Many renters have damage from burst pipes in their homes. Some tell us they're having trouble getting their landlord to make repairs. 

Some Houstonians are getting hit skyrocketing electric bills in the thousands of dollars since this week's ice storm.

Houston Police and the Better Business Bureau are warning about scammers who've started taking advantage of people's desperate need for power and heat. 

Joel Osteen opened his church as a warming shelter and Jim "Mattress Mack" McIngvale his Gallery Furniture stores on North Freeway and in Richmond.

Plumbers and repair services say they are flooded with calls about frozen and broken pipes.

People in Galveston County were among the hardest hit by power outages, with more than 90 percent of homes and businesses out of power since one or two o'clock in the morning.

The IRS anticipates many people have been hit by unemployment benefit identity theft but don't know it.