Designing woman

Inside great designer homes: Lifestyle blogger Ronda Rice Carmen gives everyone house envy

By Shelby Hodge

05.21.13 | 11:31 am

Oh, how we love looking at the way other people live, our curiosity sated with home tours, design magazines and now a glam coffee table book that takes us into the private realms of renowned design ...

Extreme weather

Fire and ice: Severe spring storms crush a Sugar Land gas station and set an area oil facility ablaze

By Tyler Rudick

04.29.13 | 12:27 pm

A Sugar Land gas station is picking up the pieces after Saturday afternoon's severe weather caused the roof of the convenience store to collapse.  While potent storms downed power ...

The Cleanest City Surprises

Keeping it pretty: A Houston suburb is named the cleanest city in America

By Joel Luks

04.20.13 | 11:32 am

Sugar Land's rising crime rate could in time bump it from its ranking as the second safest city in Texas, but at least the Houston suburb is keeping its skeletons in the closet by looking might ...

Real estate rumblings

Controversial Imperial Sugar Land development moves forward, massive water feature included

By Whitney Radley

04.04.13 | 4:22 pm

All's quiet out southwest for now as Imperial Sugar Land prepares to welcome the first signs of the contentious mixed-use development on the historic Imperial Sugar Mill site. "Th ...

Turning 'em on

Sugar Land loves its red-light cameras: Controversial, Houston banned system thriving in 'burbs

By Tyler Rudick

03.21.13 | 2:29 pm

While Houston's red light cameras were run out of town in 2011, drivers in nearby Sugar Land can expect to see more of the controversial ticket-issuing technology in April. The upcoming cam ...

Burglaries up

How safe is Sugar Land, really? New crime reports paint a different picture of trendy suburb

By Whitney Radley

03.07.13 | 2:56 pm

Sugar Land was recently named the second safest city in Texas and the 20th safest of its size in the country by CQ Press, but the numbers technically tell a different story.  Accordin ...

Sugar Land Wine & Food Affair 2013: Fred Parks Wine Seminar "Weird Science: Food & Wine Reactions with Laurie Forster" & The Balvenie Single Malt Scotch Whisky Seminar

04.26.13

Two Sugar Land Wine & Food Affair will take place at Sugar Land Marriott Town Square concurrently. Fred Parks Wine Seminar Forget the formalities of wine and have a blast in thi

Sugar Land Wine & Food Affair 2013: A Family Affair

04.24.13

Join to kick off the 10th anniversary of the Sugar Land Wine & Food Affair. Former Brennan's chefs Randy Evans, Sarah Gruenberg, Mark Holley and Jon Hebert will reunite with the current exe

What's in a name?

Sugar Land turns down nearly $5 million for name change, gives strict counter offer to sexy site

By Tyler Rudick

02.20.13 | 7:26 am

SugarDaddie.com just won't take no for an answer. A mere week after Sugar Land rejected the dating website's $500,000 offer to change its name to "SugarDaddie.com, Texas," the ...

No cheap date

Sugar Land offered half a million dollars to change its name — and city scoffs at the chump change

By Tyler Rudick

02.13.13 | 4:40 pm

And you thought humanity dodged the end times in 2012 . . . A California-based online dating service put the moves on Sugar Land this Valentine's week, offering the well-heel ...