Officials with Dreaux's Creole & Cajun Seafood announced the restaurant will reopen at a new location following the business’s temporary closure in July, according to a post on the restaurant’s Facebook page.

The details: Owner Andrew Landry, who previously owned Juicy Heads & Spicy Tails in Humble, said the previous location of Dreaux's—8009 FM 1960 Road E., Humble—closed in late July following issues with the location’s lease, per a July 28 Facebook post. 

On the menu: Landry said Dreaux's offers a variety of Cajun cuisine, including seafood gumbo, fried fish, red beans and rice, crawfish and seasoned Cajun seafood.

• Relocation date TBD 
• 5105 FM 1960 Road E., Humble

The Bear Branch Trail Association dedicated a Kingwood-area bridge to local flood mitigation activist Bob Rehak during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Aug. 13. Local officials including Harris County Precinct 3 Commissioner Tom Ramsey and Houston District E Council Member Fred Flickinger were in attendance.

A closer look: The bridge, now named "Bob Rehak Bridge," is located near the intersection of Cedar Knolls Drive and Trail Lodge Drive in Kingwood.

Rehak has run a website, called "Reduce Flooding - NOW!," for the last nine years, writing about flood mitigation efforts and needs in the Kingwood area.

Houston airport workers will receive a minimum wage increase of $5 for a new wage of $20 an hour, which will gradually rise to $23 an hour by 2028.

What this means: Mayor John Whitmire signed an executive order Aug. 12 alongside members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the labor union that represents airport workers, that would immediately begin the new wages.

Workers employed by air carriers, concessions and airport contractors will qualify for the raise.

“This helps, but this is just the beginning,” Whitmire said. “It's not going to be just wages. It's going to be working conditions.”

Before signing the executive order, the minimum wage was $15 an hour at Houston airports, including Hobby and IAH. This is the first salary increase for Houston workers since 2023, when former Mayor Sylvester Turner raised their minimum wage from $12 to $15 an hour.

One more thing: The increase is scheduled to go up to $21 in January 2027, $22 in October 2027 and by 2028 it will be $23 an hour.

Ahead of the 2026-27 school year, public school leaders in Community Impact’s coverage areas shuttered at least nine individual schools to respond to repeated state accountability issues and stave off state intervention. A new Texas Education Agency rule may make it harder for districts to do so in the future.

The details: Beginning Aug. 16, if a district closes a D- or F-rated campus and transfers the largest share of students from the closed campus to a school with a C, D or F rating, the closed campus’ rating will be assigned to the new campus. 

Districts will only avoid transferring a shuttered school’s rating history if they relocate a plurality of students to an A- or B-rated campus.

Stay tuned: The TEA is scheduled to release A-F ratings for the 2025-26 school year on Aug. 14. If a school receives five failing ratings in a row, the TEA is required under state law to close that campus or replace the district’s board of trustees with a state-appointed board of managers.