HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Alief is another section of Houston, but like the Bayou City, it started off small before growing into a 21st century community. It was once called Dairy, but forced to change ...

Marie Lee was laid up at her Alief home Tuesday, recovering from a broken femur and a blood clot, when she started getting calls from friends. "Do you know what's going on in the cemetery?" they asked ...

So the county has stepped in to pay some tribute to the past and create a park-like space for the community. Surrounded by traffic that passes by day and night is a reminder of what Alief once was -- ...

The state of Texas has recognized as a historical landmark a 1.3-acre patch that was the first church, school and — finally — cemetery for the Alief community's first black families. A state ...

Alief started out as a town of about 25 in the early-to-mid 1880′s. Back then, the place, now neatly tucked west of the Sam Houston Tollway, was well outside of Houston by available conveyances. And ...

So the county has stepped in to pay some tribute to the past and create a park-like space for the community. Surrounded by traffic that passes by day and night is a reminder of what Alief once was -- ...