A metropolitan area is a large population center consisting of a large city and its adjacent zone of influence, or of several neighboring cities or towns and adjoining areas, with one or more large cities serving as its hub or hubs.

A metropolitan area usually combines an agglomeration (the contiguous built-up area) with peripheral zones not themselves necessarily urban in character, but closely bound to the centre by employment or commerce; these zones are also sometimes known as a commuter belt, and may extend well beyond the urban periphery depending on the definition used.

The core cities in a polycentric metropolitan area need not be physically connected by continuous built-up development, distinguishing the concept from conurbation, which requires urban contiguity. In a metropolitan area, it is sufficient that central cities together constitute a large population nucleus with which other constituent parts have a high degree of integration.

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Houston-area police start holiday DWI crackdown
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:14:00 -0000
Police in several Houston-area counties will conduct special DWI operations over the Labor Day holiday weekend, including a program in which officers can get search warrants to obtain blood samples from drivers.
Analysts: Gustav could push gas prices past $4 a gallon
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:03:00 -0000
Deadly Tropical Storm Gustav drenched Jamaica and menaced the Cayman Islands on Friday, setting off alarm from Cuba to New Orleans — and at gas pumps across the United States.
Survey: Houston has Texas' cheapest gas at $3.39 a gallon
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:19:00 -0000
Retail gasoline prices continue to drop across Texas this week. The weekly AAA Texas gas price survey released Friday finds regular-grade averaging $3.47 per gallon across Texas, down 7 cents from last week.
Gulf Freeway wreck closes two southbound lanes
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:04:00 -0000
Two main lanes of the southbound Gulf Freeway have been closed and Life Flight has been called after an accident near FM 646 in League City.
Autopsy: Hanged Galveston inmate, 17, had blunt trauma
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:30:00 -0000
An autopsy report released Thursday is unlikely to resolve a dispute over whether a 17-year-old illegal immigrant was beaten by League City police before hanging himself in the Galveston County Jail.
Houston lawyer's thievery gets him 35 years
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:30:00 -0000
Former personal injury lawyer Steven Bearman was sentenced to 35 years in prison Thursday for stealing money from clients and then stealing from a law firm that hired him as he awaited trial on the earlier charge.

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Digest: Sewage spills near Onion Creek; Austin man killed in I-35 wreck.
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:33:50 -0400
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Obama, McCain miss Texas ballot deadline -- sort of
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:04:49 -0400
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Gustav's predicted path: closer to Texas
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:48:46 -0400
Tropical Storm Gustav's course shifted west Thursday, making a Texas landfall more likely — and causing both the state and coastal residents to step up preparations for what could become a Category 3 hurricane after it enters the Gulf of Mexico.

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