This year's budget approval meeting included a protest from a storm advocacy group that ended with security clearing the ...

Mayor John Whitmire’s chief of staff Chris Newport is leaving the administration. Newport was the first to hold the top ...

Whitmire's budget passage comes after months of working to implement cuts and consolidations across city departments.

The Texas Legislature and Mayor John Whitmire may undo reforms to Houston’s police and firefighter pensions, worrying experts ...

Budget season is in full swing in Houston, and Mayor John Whitmire ’s consolidation efforts have blasted through all of the ...

James Talarico, a pastor and former schoolteacher, led Texas House Democrats' fight against private school vouchers.

Mayor John Whitmire and HPD chief Noe Diaz speak at a press conference announce the plans for the 2025 edition of Freedom ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- This Week in Texas, we're digging into Houston Mayor John Whitmire's $7 billion ... the governing class is doing," said Dr. James Henson of the exhaustive new survey ...

Sharpe James, the charismatic longest-serving mayor of Newark whose political accomplishments were marred by a corruption conviction, died May 11 at 89. His son John Sharpe James, a former Newark ...

No matter who you are - whether that's a pissed-off cyclist or a staunch supporter of the man - one thing stands true regarding Houston Mayor John Whitmire: He's one of the most powerful people in ...

He was 89 years old. James, who served as mayor between 1986 and 2006, died Sunday at an elder care facility in West Orange, according to his son John Sharpe James, a former Newark city councilman.