Houston Methodist officials cut the ribbon April 10 on the new $62 million Cinco Ranch comprehensive care center, bringing more primary care, specialty care and physical therapy options for Katy area residents.

The details: The 67,000-square-foot, three-story center—located at 6601 Cinco Rose Drive—has 68 exam rooms and more than 30 physicians on-site, Operations Manager Carolyn Mohsenzadeh said. Patients also have access to on-site lab services and advanced imaging, including screening mammograms, bone density scans, X‐rays, MRI and ultrasounds.

Why it matters: Nathan Jacobs, vice president of operations at Houston Methodist, said the facility was part of a “deliberate strategy” to be geographically closer to patients and implement new medical technology in order to “streamline the overall experience."

Stay tuned: More specialties are set to open throughout the year, including cardiology, orthopedics, neurology, gastroenterology and ENT services. Additionally, the center’s urgent care clinic will be open in the next few months, Mohsenzadeh said.

C79 Bakery and Restaurant has opened in Katy, owner Surya Anakala confirmed.

What’s on the menu: The eatery, which shares its site with Club 79 nightclub, offers a wide variety of Indian cuisine including thali, chole bhature and chicken puri, according to its social media. Anakala said one of the restaurant's most popular baked goods is the black forest pastries.

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Harris County commissioners are set to take up more than 400 agenda items April 16, including discussion about federally funded flood mitigation and recovery projects, affordable housing developments and the first annual status report of the county’s Climate Justice Plan.

At a glance: Commissioners are scheduled to hear a presentation on the implementation of the Harris County Climate Justice Plan, a multiyear climate resilience framework the court adopted April 10, 2025, per agenda documents. Staff from the Office of County Administration’s Sustainability Division will deliver the first report to Commissioners Court reflecting on a year of progress.

Also of note: The Harris County Flood Control District is expected to provide project-level updates to commissioners regarding local flood mitigation and recovery efforts that received funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD. Staff from HCFCD will share a schedule detailing construction start dates, estimated completion dates, cost escalations and other updates for each project.

Stay tuned: Harris County Commissioners Court meetings are held at 9 a.m. at 1001 Preston St., Houston. 

Texas retailers can resume selling smokable hemp products after a Travis County judge temporarily blocked some of the state’s sweeping new regulations on the hemp industry.

The background: On March 31, the state health department enacted rules changing how THC content is measured in consumable hemp, which industry experts said effectively outlawed most smokable hemp products.

The Texas Hemp Business Council, a federal hemp industry group, and several local hemp companies sued the state April 8, arguing that the state health department does not have the authority to reclassify legal THC levels. State officials have defended the rules, saying they are in line with a September executive order by Gov. Greg Abbott, who at the time called for stricter oversight of the multibillion-dollar hemp industry.

The latest: Travis County District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble sided with the hemp industry in an April 10 ruling, directing the state not to enforce the new THC testing requirement and a restriction on the transportation of hemp products between states. An additional hearing is scheduled for April 23.