Needville pitcher Cally Falls and her team are all smiles as they prepare to go to state. A win playof win last week sent the team to the Class 3A state final four. Needville will play North Lamar in the state semifinals. Photo by Nick de la Torre / Houston Chronicle

Does Fort Bend County need a commuter-rail train into Houston? Metro thinks so. The Houston-area mass transit organization voted this week to pay $500,000 for environmental studies on a plan to run a train line from the southern end of the Main Street line to the Fort Bend-Harris county line at Beltway 8, according to chron.com

And then there were two. Fort Bend's Travis and Bush high school boys basketball teams have advanced to the Region III semifinals to be played on Friday. Travis defeated Elkins 56-51 on Monday. Bush beat Dulles 72-59. Click the "full story" to find out what's next for the two teams.

Jimmy Loyd photoThe pace of home building in Sugar Land is picking up a bit. Local builders and local officials hope new construction in the Telfair neighborhood is a sign of good things to come.