Pearland Police Department’s fleet just expanded to add 12 new unmarked police cars, including vans, SUVs and trucks.

The details: Pearland City Council voted unanimously at its April 27 meeting to award a bid to purchase 12 unmarked police vehicles from McRee Ford, Big Star Ford and Caldwell Country Chevrolet for $448,000, paid for by the city’s internal service fund. 

Looking ahead: The city will also purchase an additional 30 vehicles this summer, City Manager Trent Epperson said at the meeting.

Pearland will host the third annual Mother’s Day Walk and Wellness celebration May 10, founded by resident Myra Johnson, to highlight wellness and support for mothers and caregivers, according to an April news release from Mother's Day Walk Houston.

What you need to know: The event will be held from 4-6:30 p.m. at the Shadow Creek Ranch Nature Trail and West Pearland Library, located at 11801 Shadow Creek Parkway, Pearland. Entry is free with an RSVP and a donation of any amount through May 9, while day-of tickets are $20 per adult and $10 per child, according to the news release.

The event will also feature a wellness experience led by Memorial Hermann Pearland, including chair massages, aromatherapy, nutrition offerings and on-site medical professionals providing guidance on pediatric care, maternal wellness and mental health, according to the release.

In a one-year snapshot of Greater Houston attitudes, residents expressed the largest drop in confidence about regional job opportunities in more than 40 years, according to survey results released April 27 from the Kinder Institute for Urban Research.

About the data: Rice University researchers collected nearly 9,000 responses between January and February from residents in Harris, Fort Bend and Montgomery counties.

At a glance: One quarter of residents across all three counties named the economy as the “biggest problem” facing the Houston area this year compared to 16% in 2025, survey results show.

Crime and safety was the second-most commonly identified problem, followed by the cost of housing for Harris County residents and traffic for residents of Fort Bend and Montgomery counties. 

Another detail: The percentage of residents reporting they are “just getting by” or “finding it difficult to get by” increased across all income groups in the past year, survey results show.

Also of note: About 7 in 10 residents expressed concern about the environment’s effects on their health, researchers found. 

Camp Mystic, the Texas Hill Country camp where 28 people died in catastrophic flooding last July, announced April 30 that it will not welcome campers this summer.

The background: The decision comes nearly 10 months after 25 young campers, two teenage counselors and the camp’s executive director, Dick Eastland, died as the Guadalupe River camp flooded July 4. Camp Mystic’s owners had planned to open a secondary campsite called Cypress Lake in late May, but backed down at the urging of flood victims’ families and state lawmakers.

What's happening: A spokesperson for the Department of State Health Services, which licenses youth camps, confirmed to Community Impact that Camp Mystic had withdrawn its application to operate in summer 2026. 

In a statement, Camp Mystic officials said they did not want to “unintentionally effect further harm” on flood victims and their families.

"We also recognize that over 800 girls want to return to Camp Mystic Cypress Lake this summer," they wrote. "Our special bond with our Camp Mystic families does not change or end with the announcement."