For Labor Day 2024 in Houston, a variety of stores including Aldi, Best Buy, HEB, Home Depot, Kroger, Lowe’s, Petco, Sam’s Club, Starbucks, Target, Trader Joe’s, and Walmart will remain open.

The couple from the Phoenix area had trusted their Houston travel agent, Sunita Hedaoo, for years and relied on her to plan previous extravagant international trips.

Need something last-minute? Did you forget something? Here is what’s open and closed on Easter Sunday:

Is your fur animal ready to be king or queen of the toys?

A man is in custody after police said he rammed his vehicle into the entrance of a Petsmart near downtown Houston, then led officers on a chase Monday.

The online pet shop surprises customers with oil paintings of their furry friends, a move the company says wins them customers for life. It's one of the more than 1,000 free paintings that Chewy sends to select customers each week — even during the pandemic — tapping into people’s obsession with their fur children and, it hopes, winning customers for life. Amazon and Chewy dominate the online pet supplies industry, with Amazon's market share at more than 50% and Chewy's at 34%, according to retail consulting firm 1010data. Chewy sends new customers handwritten notes and all shoppers get snail-mail holiday cards. Chewy says it rejects artwork that doesn’t look enough like the pet or sends it back to be reworked.

For people in parts of the country that are hit by hurricanes, you probably already know to have an emergency kit ready for a moment’s notice, but do you have everything prepared for your four-legged friend?