A special election for Texas’ 18th Congressional District has been called for Nov. 4 – which will be nearly eight months after the death of U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner left the Houston seat vacant.
The Harris County health department said Thursday it’s investigating a reported measles case in a child with no travel history, which would make it the first case in the Houston area this year that is not associated with international travel.
The Texas Senate on Tuesday approved Senate Bill 8, which would require sheriffs in the state's largest counties -- including Harris County -- to collaborate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The government spent years probing allegations that a Dallas HOA created rules to kick poor Black people out and that Texas discriminated against minority residents in Houston after Hurricane Harvey, only to suddenly reverse course under Trump.
The Texas Senate is considering a bill that would require sheriffs in the state's larger counties, such as Harris County, to collaborate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said the county is at risk of losing up to $600 million in federal grant initiatives as President Donald Trump's sweeping freeze on federal spending remains in legal limbo.
Almost five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic shut down Houston's annual rodeo. Now, as vaccination rates have since declined in the region and across the state, a measles outbreak is budding in Texas as this year’s rodeo is set to start.
A large swath of East Harris County along the San Jacinto River -- where toxic waste was identified more than a decade ago -- was found to have 'significantly greater' instances of some types of cancer compared to the state average.
Harris County has joined a nationwide legal effort seeking to block funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) made by the administration of President Donald Trump.
Another prisoner has died while in custody at the Harris County Jail, marking the third reported death so far this year.
The Texas Attorney General's Office has filed motions to dismiss charges against at least two former staffers of Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, who were accused of steering a COVID-19 vaccine outreach contract to a preferred vendor.
A Houston man pardoned by President Donald Trump for crimes during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was released from federal prison but is now wanted in Harris County on a 2016 charge of online solicitation of a minor.
A Houston man who sent bomb threats, shooting threats and racial and homophobic messages to Harris County hospitals, universities, judges, councilmembers, journalists and lawyers was sentenced Friday to serve 16 years in a federal prison.
"There are 16 justice of the peace courts in the county. But just four of them handle more than half the county’s civil cases, according to an analysis of county data by the Houston Chronicle.
Some courts hear 15 times the civil cases that other courts do, with similar disparities in the volume of criminal cases – mostly traffic tickets – that the justices handle."
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2024/justice-of-the-peace-caseload/
I'm not on ExTwitter - I tried a couple times and it never was my jam.
That said, I was at a polling location when a voter photographed their ballot with their phone.
a) In #Texas, voters are not permitted to use #phones or any device that can record an image or sound within 100 feet of the vote center.
b) I don't know what happened, exactly, but when I was exiting the vote center after putting my ballot in the scan, there were two uniformed #LawEnforcement officials speaking with the voter.
I heard the voter tell someone (not sure if it was clerks or other voters) that they took the picture because the QR code on the ballot falsely reported #votes for #Republicans as votes for #Democrats. And the voter asked if they were #Dominion voting machines. I don't know who answered, I think it was a clerk.
As a trained election worker, I know about our machines. I work in #HarrisCounty #TX and the machines are from Verity, not Dominion.
At any polling location there are two judges, one appointed by each of the two major parties. One judge was a #Black #woman and the other was a #white #man. The judge who was dealing with this was the man.
This part, and this part alone, is speculation, and I could be totally wrong. I think the man was the Republican judge, and that he was the alternate judge (AJ), not the presiding judge (PJ). Which meant that most, if not all, of the clerks were either Democrats or independents because the PJ recruits the clerks for the polling location. He totally wanted to portray that Republicans aren't as crazy as they say, and that the voter was not at all the GOP norm.
A judge on Thursday denied the state's attempt to shutter Harris County's second version of a guaranteed basic income program.
The case regards the 2016 shooting death of Ashtian Barnes by a Harris County Constable. The Supreme Court's decision could have a lasting effect on cases across the country related to law enforcement's use of deadly force.
On Tuesday, Galena Park ISD voluntarily turned off the AC in its classrooms for three hours as part of CenterPoint's load management program.
