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A misunderstanding about a pay bump for Harris County staff may have excluded 1,700 workers, but county leaders say they hope ...

There is good news on Texas County’s weather. Temperatures will return to near normal and even slightly above for this time of year through the weekend and into the middle of next week, the National ...

Unlike the Astros and the Rockets, the Texans are not responsible for maintaining the stadium they play in. The Astrodome's ...

A man was arrested after allegedly trying to sell a stolen vehicle using fake documents, according to Harris County Constable Precinct 4. The incident occurred on January ...

The family's lawyer says they filed the lawsuit because they felt the Navy could have protected the mother, but failed. The woman was killed while holding her one-year-old baby in her arms.

Deputies from Constable Mark Herman's Office arrested a man for driving while intoxicated and unlawfully carrying a weapon following a traffic stop on January 17, 2025. The ...

Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee said cancer clusters and lower life expectancies persist in Houston's Black and Latino neighborhoods, emphasizing, "This is not a race-blind issue." ...

Ayana McClinton faces two charges after she was found sleeping with the children outside a restaurant during the snowstorm.

A mother was charged after she was found lying on a sidewalk during a snowstorm with her 2-month-old and 1-year-old children.

There aren’t many answers Larry Satterwhite can give about the deaths that occurred during Houston’s first blast of cold in early January. He does know that a man died at a Metro bus stop after he was ...

A large swift-water channel Housing for visiting trainees ...