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The synagogue claims the city has targeted them by enforcing a law that could apply to other untouched businesses in the neighborhood.
The synagogue claims the city has targeted them by enforcing a law that could apply to other untouched businesses in the neighborhood.
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast compared the congregation, which prays outside their facility every month, to the U.S. Capitol rioters.
Border patrol officials say she was trying to smuggle $2.9 million worth of narcotics into Texas.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw criticized the renewed lockdown in the Houston area under Gov. Abbott’s executive order, encouraging business owners to take a stand against it.
Houston's ambitious goal has roots in Swedish environmentalism, with the goal of ending all traffic deaths. So far, no city has succeeded.
A Leon County landowner is hoping to take his fight to protect his 100 acres from being bisected by the Texas Central high-speed rail project to the Supreme Court of Texas.
After Houston Rodeo officials announced a revised 2021 schedule with most activities delayed until May, Harris County Judge Hidalgo expressed doubts about holding the popular event next year.
Reports of a near-naked man running down the street resulted in the discovery of a human smuggling stash house in southwest Houston where 29 were allegedly held against their will.
State Rep. Valoree Swanson (R-Spring) is trying — again — to abolish Harris County's under-the-radar board of education.
Five MS-13 gang members from El Salvador who were illegally living in Houston have been charged with murder.
The recent increase in coronavirus hospitalizations could trigger stricter capacity limits on businesses and close bars in some regions of Texas.
Mayor Turner says the city is close to releasing specifics of transportation planning that may include narrowing streets to slow traffic and increasing sidewalks, bike lanes, and access to public transit.
Freshman Democrat Lizzie Fletcher has won reelection to Houston-area Congressional District 7 with just over 50 percent of the vote.
Judge Hidalgo rejected working directly with Crime Stoppers Houston on bail reform impact studies, saying the county should instead work with groups who do not have “an axe to grind.”
A uniquely bipartisan group is seeking to change Houston’s city charter that currently concentrates control of the council’s legislative agenda in the hands of the mayor.
While Governor Abbott's orders have allowed public libraries to re-open, the only major city in Texas to do so is Fort Worth.
The HUD secretary joined Rep. Dan Crenshaw and Texas Workforce Commissioner Alvarez in a ceremony designating a new EnVision resource center in Houston.
According to U.S. Immigration and Customs, an El Salvadorian national charged in the death of a Houston Police Sergeant is unlawfully present in the country.
The Houston City Council is considering a tax burden increase and is scheduled to vote on the measure this Wednesday.
This week a federal agency sided with the State of Texas in shifting control of $1.27 billion in Hurricane Harvey recovery funds from Houston to the General Land Office.