Officials with Wingstop celebrated a Feb. 11 opening of their new location in Kingwood.

Wingstop offers bone-in and boneless wings with more than a dozen flavor options, as well as chicken sandwiches, crispy tenders and fries, according to the business' website. The company has four other Lake Houston-area locations.

• Opened Feb. 11 
• 4529 Kingwood Drive, Ste. 170, Kingwood

Humble ISD trustees approved the renaming of the Kingwood High School tennis complex and courts in honor of two former coaches.

The details: During the board’s Feb. 17 meeting, trustees approved renaming the Kingwood High School tennis complex to the “Kim Enocksen Tennis Complex” and the tennis courts to the “Kevin McElroy Courts.” 

Enocksen, who was hired to serve as the coach of Kingwood High School’s tennis program in 1994, recently came out of retirement to head the program again after McElroy—who had served as head coach since 2021—died in early January.

Quote of note: “I'm just so proud to do this for these two wonderful people, and coach McElroy’s family is still in our heart,” trustee Chris Parker said during the meeting.

Career history: During Enocksen’s first stint as head coach, she led the program to 16 district championships in team tennis and to the regional qualifier round in team tennis each of those seasons, according to agenda documents.

Houston will apply for over $80.5 million in grants to help fund public safety efforts while it hosts the 2026 FIFA World Cup in June. On Feb. 18, Houston City Council approved the city’s public safety department to apply for two federal grants to enhance security and preparedness for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

What this means: One grant for $15.8 million will allow the city to purchase advanced drone detection and mitigation technology, according to the agenda item.

“Sometimes at these events there will be drones up in the air, and nobody will know who they belong to or who’s controlling them,” council member Julian Ramirez said. “So this system allows them to protect the public against someone who would do harm using a drone.”

The other grant for $64.6 million will enhance security at official World Cup venues through the purchase of safety equipment, temporary security infrastructure, traffic and crowd management and communication tools, according to the Office of Public Safety.

Candidates for the Republican primary for U.S. House District 2 gathered at The Woodlands Area Economic Development Partnership on Feb. 19 for a forum on economic and business topics during the first week of early voting.

What happened: Incumbent Dan Crenshaw and candidates Martin Etwop and N. Lee Plumb attended the forum, and state Rep. Steve Toth, who represents District 15 in the Texas Legislature, was also invited but did not attend.

The details: The candidates offered information about their backgrounds and motivations for running, and questions covered topics such as the economy and legislative policies.

Get involved: Early voting began Feb. 17 and will end Feb. 27. A list of some of the positions on the sample ballot for voters in The Woodlands area in Montgomery County can be found here.

During an arctic blast last month, the Texas power grid remained stable throughout the storm and the state came away largely unscathed. The Lone Star State has not seen widespread blackouts since February 2021, when millions of Texans lost power and nearly 250 people died.

The response: In Uri’s wake, state lawmakers and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas made changes to restructure ERCOT’s governing board, mandate earlier public alerts during tight grid conditions and require that energy providers “weatherize” their facilities to withstand extremely hot or cold temperatures.

Roughly 40,000 megawatts of power—enough to serve about 10 million residential customers—have been added to the grid since 2021 and the state’s energy supply has become more diverse.

Looking ahead: State leaders have expressed confidence that the grid would hold up during “a storm similar to Uri.” Yet some energy analysts caution that rapidly rising electric demand, driven by the construction of new data centers throughout Texas, means challenges may still lie ahead.