Houston unlocking demand for visitors to New Zealand.

Texas authorities insist the grisly death was not motivated by victim's gender identity.

A week on from Hurricane Maria the island of Puerto Rico is at the mercy of the US.

He opened fire on the group, shooting his estranged wife and seven others dead.

Man allegedly strangled his ex-wife to death with their kids in the room next to them.

At least eight people are dead after a shooting at a home in a Dallas suburb.

She didn't win, but Miss Texas has been praised for shaming President Trump.

Shooting reportedly happened while adults were watching Dallas Cowboys at NFL party.

The First Lady sticks to her guns in snakeskin stilettos for second visit to Texas.

A raging fire has broken out at a Texas chemical plant.

As rescuers continued their heartbreaking work Trump managed to turn attention on himself.

Police found a shivering toddler clinging to her drowned mother in a rain-swollen canal.

One Texas location has received more than 49 inches, the most ever from a tropical system.

Mysterious Good Samaritan unveiled as Dad who saved child before getting own family.

Scope of disaster remains unclear as officials try to assess how many people are missing.

Kiwis are among the thousands stranded in Houston in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.

One alligator relocation expert said: "They had to evacuate, too".

People could be heard pleading for help from flooded homes as Harvey's deluge continued.

Officials tell those not evacuating to write name on their arm as means of identification.

Forecasters predict "catastrophic flooding" as Hurricane Harvey evolves into Cat 3 storm.

After leaving newborn in flowerbed covered in ants, woman went home and went to sleep.

Customer filmed threatening an employee because he had waited "two hours" for his fries.

Winston Aldworth finds a cool town that stands apart and makes a big noise.

Check out the Texan capital of cool.

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Austin, Texas and Portland, Oregon have the same slogan ... but which really is weirder?

Married father-of-two, and former Teacher of the Year, has been jailed for 10 years

Japanese internees were being taken from Auckland to Australia for a prisoner exchange.

Three schools in Texas are bringing back the wooden paddle.

Truck parked outside a shopping centre on a 38C day. Inside people were cooking to death