Prompted by Democratic gains during the midterm elections, Houston Mayor John Whitmire said Friday he’s directing the Houston ...

The 87-year-old Houston Democrat, known as Ms. T, has served in the Legislature since 1973. On Tuesday, her party won control ...

A historic blue tsunami sweeps across midterm elections nationwide. Are the election results a referendum on President Donald ...

Johnson will be the first Democratic Texas Attorney General since Dan Morales, who was in office from 1991-1999.

A blue-leaning Texas House of Representatives could pass legislation that takes aim at the state's bans on abortion, but ...

Thursday’s groundbreaking event marks the start of a two-year, $15 million preservation project to prevent the century-old ...

From the first Native American elected to the U.S. Senate and the first Muslim who will join the upper chamber to the ...

The Houston Matters panel of non-experts weighs in on stories from the week’s news and decides if they’re good, bad, or ugly.

Texas' governor-elect has pledged to replace the state's top public education official when she takes office in January. Here ...

Cesar Espinosa from the civil rights nonprofit FIEL Houston and immigration attorney Ruby Powers consider how the midterm ...

In today’s edition of “The Commuter Cut,” we hear this week's edition of Tessa Takes On, in which Tessa sits down with ...

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