Andrew Schneider

Just a fraction of a percent of registered Harris County voters have cast ballots for the new elective positions on the Harris Central Appraisal District’s Board of Directors. Election Day is Saturday.

Jackson Lee joins a long line of U.S. lawmakers who have sought reelection while faced with a life-threatening illness.

Jackson Lee, who represented Texas’ 18th Congressional District for nearly 30 years, announced in June she had pancreatic cancer.

One of Governor Greg Abbott’s chief directives to CenterPoint Energy CEO Jason Wells is to come up with a plan to address all vegetation issues around power lines by the end of August.

The federal appeals court ruled 12-5 that different racial and ethnic groups cannot form coalitions to challenge racial gerrymandering under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

The company’s resiliency plan includes replacing roughly 1,000 wooden poles with fiberglass ones and trimming vegetation along 2,000 miles of power lines, all by August 31.

Erica Lee Carter, Jackson Lee’s daughter, is considered the frontrunner in the contest to represent Texas’ 18th Congressional District from early November through the start of January 2025.

The plaintiffs argue the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has failed to hold the refinery to federal Clean Air Act standards. They're demanding the EPA take over the facility's permitting process.

Vice President Kamala Harris, speaking at a rally in Houston, charged former President Donald Trump with causing a health care crisis through his work in overturning Roe v. Wade. The end of Roe triggered abortion bans in more than 20 states, including Texas.

Immigration and border security, abortion, and Winter Storm Uri all figured into how early voters in Greater Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth cast their ballots in the Senate race between Republican Senator Ted Cruz and Democratic Congressman Colin Allred