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The Mexico native has been convicted of several crimes, including voluntary manslaughter, aggravated assault with a weapon, ...

A cold front has parked itself just to the north of Houston, with our northernmost counties experiencing slightly cooler ...

Harris County Sheriff's Office leadership is trying to keep quiet on email conversations they had with Houston Police Department ahead of the hiring of a former police officer at the center of ...

At the February 4 Houston County Commission meeting, the bid for the Public Health and Community Services interior improvement project was accepted. The scope of the project includes remodeling the ...

The No. 14 Texas A&M men’s tennis team fell to No. 4 Ohio State, 4-2, at the Ty Tucker Tennis Center on Friday. Texas A&M (3-2) opened [Read More...] ...

The Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the Sunday shooting death of a Lamar Consolidated ISD instruction ...

Houston-area communities including Pearland, Atascocita and Conroe have some of the highest property tax rates in the nation.

Students at schools like Houston Community College, University of Houston and Texas Southern University will get a week off ...

Hey drivers, if you’re heading north on IH-45 through Galveston County, brace yourself—there’s a major traffic switch in ...

A measles outbreak is growing in a Texas county with dangerously low vaccination rates. In late January, two school-age ...