A politician’s health is the people’s business. The district once represented by Sheila Jackson Lee and Sylvester Turner is ...

City officials are unable to say how many proposed changes at the Houston Police Department were actually carried out after ...

Houston's Independent Police Oversight Board rarely challenges how cases are resolved when police are accused of abusing ...

Commissioners will decide Thursday if Harris County will pay for four of Judge Lina Hidalgo's staff to attend a trade mission ...

During Thursday's public comment session, Harris County Republican precinct chair and conservative author Barbara Denson said ...

It is possible to both mourn the deaths of recently passed Democratic members of Congress and acknowledge that there is a fundamentally broken incentive structure in the party when it comes ...

While some politicians may view SNAP as an expendable government handout, the program helped lift 604,000 Texans above the ...

Nearly 700,000 needy Texans could be knocked off federal food stamp programs or have their benefits slashed under reforms ...

With one month left before the new fiscal year, Houston Controller Chris Hollins warned City Council of the impact Houston ...

Whitmire’s administration is requesting a $1 million reduction in budgeted overtime pay heading into the next fiscal year, ...

Rep. Jasmine Crockett is among those testifying in a federal lawsuit alleging that the Legislature used racial discrimination ...