Does Houston have a strong mayor form of government? The mayor has outsized influence over policy decisions in a rare form of ...

Harris County Sheriff's deputies scramble to apply for Houston Police Department jobs after union contract agreement.

Houston is sinking faster than any other city in the U.S., according to a new study from the Columbia Climate School—and the ...

Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates announced on Thursday that his philanthropic Gates Foundation would close ...

The Texas Education Agency's latest ratings saw school districts across the state plummet letter grades under the state's new ...

Holman Hernandez was found guilty of aggravated kidnapping on Friday. Hernandez was charged with kidnapping a 3-year-old girl ...

At about $1.5 billion, property taxes comprise the largest share of the projected $2.9 billion in the city’s revenue for ...

How does your neighborhood street rank? How about the road on the way to work? This interactive map highlights the worst ...

All 28 of the most populous U.S. cities—including Houston, New York City, and Chicago—are sinking, which makes them ...

The park in southeast Harris County was dedicated in 1986 to honor seven NASA astronauts who died in the explosion of the ...

I was a little caught off-guard by that, because we've had in-depth conversations with Cam (Whitmore)... probably more than ...

A 54-year-old man is believed to have shot and killed his 71-year-old mother before shooting and killing himself at a ...