One of the nation’s largest food donation events is calling for urgent donations after facing food shortages ahead of Thanksgiving Day.

The Thanksgiving travel rush is expected to be bigger than ever this year.

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President Joe Biden will convene the first meeting of his supply chain resilience council.

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More than 55 million people are expected to travel at least 50 miles from home for Thanksgiving this year, and there's no Butterball hotline to help them with any bumps along the way.

A search is underway for a 79-year-old man who was last seen in Montgomery on Thanksgiving Day, deputies with Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said.

Thursday at 1:00 p.m. on KPRC 2, catch the National Dog Show presented by Purina. Houston Life is celebrating Thanksgiving with our friends and family. Instead, KPRC 2 is proud to broadcast, the National Dog show!

Amtrak passengers may be facing service cutbacks in January.

Millions of Americans are loading up their cars or piling onto planes, determined to reclaim Thanksgiving traditions that were put on pause last year by the pandemic.

The City of Houston is wants you to volunteer for the 72nd Annual H-E-B Thanksgiving Parade taking place on Thanksgiving Day.

Can you imagine eating the same thing every day? Well, Matt Stoudt has been eating Chick-fil-A every day for over 130 days -- except, of course, on Sundays and on Thanksgiving Day. Back in July, the Nazareth, Pennsylvania resident set a challenge for himself -- to break the “unofficial” record for consecutive days eating at Chick-fil-A after learning of a California man who had eaten at the popular chain for 114 days straight. Stoudt said things got rough around day 100 but he didn’t chicken out. Now he’s asking other Chick-fil-A fanatics not to beat him, because he doesn’t want to do it all over again.

HOUSTON – A 76-year-old mother and her daughter were going to be homeless after falling for a rental scam. Kristi Martinez and her mother paid their last dime to move into a home, which police later told them they were trespassing in. Banks were closed but Cage pulled out whatever he could from an ATM to extend a helping hand to Kristi Martinez and her mother. “It’s a blessing it really is,” said Kristi Martinez. Hopefully a place we can actually call home,” said Kristi Martinez.

HOUSTON – Earlier this week, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner announced the city’s annual Thanksgiving parade was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In lieu of this year’s Thanksgiving Day parade, the City of Houston is instead hosting the H-E-B Family Thanksgiving Distribution Saturday at NRG Park. “With the dramatic rise in unemployment since the onset of Covid-19, many in the Houston community are dealing with extremely difficult times,” Mayor Sylvester Turner said in a release. “In this environment, the tradition of Thanksgiving seems like an impossibility. In response to the need for tradition, Thanksgiving festivities have been re-envisioned to focus a time to give thanks.”The drive-through, first come, first serve food distribution, which began at 8 a.m. Saturday, will end at 2:00 p.m., or when product has been depleted.

Take note: A number of Houston-area Thanksgiving Day festivities and events have been curtailed this year due to the coronavirus. Those events and organizations that are forging ahead with Thanksgiving Day events and programs are instituting pandemic policies, which include social distancing and face mask requirements. What they need: Volunteers are needed between 5:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day. What they need: Volunteers are needed on Thanksgiving Day to help prepare, package and deliver food. If you know of any events organizations in need of volunteers on Thanksgiving Day, please share the information in the comments below or email us here.

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HOUSTON – Apparently, Texas’ most searched side dish ahead of Thanksgiving is ... fruit salad? A map based on Google Trends shows uniquely searched side dishes for Thanksgiving Day by state. 2019 Thanksgiving side dishes by state on Nov. 24, 2019. (KPRC)Do you agree with the map? Click here to see how people are searching ahead of Thanksgiving Day.