The Harris County Commissioner's Court has appointed a new executive director of the Harris County Flood Control District. Marcus Stuckett, a licensed Professional Engineer and Certified Floodplain Manager, will take over the role. He has previously served as Senior HCFCD enginee...
A federal judge on Thursday halted President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to create a federal voter list and limit who can receive a mail ballot.U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani, who was nominated by Democratic President Barack Obama, sided with a coalition ...
Harris County Commissioners Court on Thursday unanimously appointed Marcus Stuckett as the new executive director of the Harris County Flood Control District, making him the first African American to lead the agency.The appointment comes two weeks after former Executive Director ...
The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge rose to a new three-year high in May as gas prices peaked, a sign rising costs could pose political problems for President Trump as midterm elections near. The Commerce Department said Thursday that consumer prices rose 4.1% in May ...
Senate Republicans who were berated by President Donald Trump over opposition to his war in Iran held a late-night vote Wednesday to try to appease him, rejecting a war powers resolution a day after a similar measure passed.Trump harangued GOP senators face-to-face earlier in the...
Good morning, Houston.☀️Happy Friday Eve! Hope you’re easing into the day (and the heat) with an extra sip of coffee, or tea, or milk, or whatever you’re drinking this morning.We’re in Austin today. The Texas State Board of Education is expected to make a decision on proposed cha...
Senate Republicans who were berated by President Donald Trump over opposition to his war in Iran held a late-night vote Wednesday to try to appease him, rejecting a war powers resolution a day after a similar measure passed. Trump harangued GOP senators face to face earlier in th...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani stepped into the national spotlight this week as an ascendant political force within the Democratic Party. Democratic leaders aren't so sure that's a good thing.As progressives cheered across the nation, some of the most powerful Democrats in th...
A battle is underway in Fort Bend County to remove Interim County Judge Daniel Wong from his appointed post as chief executive. The effort to remove Wong from his post appears to have been led by Fort Bend County Commissioner Dexter McCoy who told media outlets that Wong was no l...
While classrooms are quiet because of summer break, some HISD parents say they won't be silent during Thursday night's board meeting.
A sharp division has emerged within the Harris County Commissioners Court on the eve of a discussion to appoint a new head for the region's embattled Flood Control District. Conflict over possible Harris Co. Flood Control District Director pick The Commissioners Court is schedul....
“Would you really like to know?” Sen. Bill Cassidy asked President Donald Trump.Just hours after refusing to sign a bipartisan housing bill that Republicans hoped would boost their election-year prospects, the president was attending a private lunch Wednesday with the Senate GOP....
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo’s planned $300 million expansion represents more than just a new facility — it’s a long-term investment in youth, agriculture and the future of the organization, according to Chairman of the Board Wesley Sinor.Speaking with KPRC 2’s Michael Ho...
Time is running out for Friendswood residents who want to help shape the city’s next potential bond election. City officials are encouraging residents to complete the 2026 Bond Proposition Survey before it closes on June 30. The survey is part of the city’s effort to gather publi...
Stating the importance of mental health support, Pearland ISD Trustees this month renewed an agreement with the local mental health authority for crisis support and other services. Through the agreement approved on June 9, Gulf Coast Center will provide crisis intervention, risk...
The City of Pearland’s requirements for businesses that expand or make other changes may be too aggressive, members of city council said. “It seems like a lot,” Council member Layni Cade reflected during a joint discussion with the Planning and Zoning Commission this month. “It ...
The Cypress-Fairbanks ISD Board of Trustees adopted a $1.25 billion budget and staff compensation plan for the 2026-27 school year in a 6-1 vote during its regularly scheduled board meeting June 22. Trustee Christine Kalmbach cast the lone dissenting vote.The general fund budget ...
The rise of Abelardo de la Espriella, a businessman and lawyer set to be Colombia's next president, is raising questions about whether political shifts underway across Latin America could reshape the future of the Amazon rainforest.The Colombia election result comes as Peru appea...
The Constitution "does not grant the President any specific powers over elections," the judge wrote.
Fort Bend County Precinct 2 Commissioner Grady Prestage says he will preside over Thursday’s Commissioners Court meeting after county officials concluded that Daniel Wong’s appointment as interim county judge expired following the dismissal of the civil lawsuit that led to his ap...
Pearland City Council members on Monday delayed until October any appointments of representatives to the Houston-Galveston Area Council following heated discussion and comments from residents supporting the selection of the city’s recently elected mayor. A regional planning comm...
Progressive candidate Iván Cepeda on Wednesday conceded Colombia’s presidential election to Abelardo de la Espriella, a conservative outsider who was endorsed by U.S. President Donald Trump.Election results showed de la Espriella, a businessman and lawyer who had never run for of...
When Varun Venkatesh cast his ballot in New York’s primary this week, he thought about “a good litmus test for me as a voter.” He wanted to know what the candidates are doing for the Palestinian cause. The 27-year-old Brooklyn resident decided to support Claire Valdez, who was ba...
This coverage is made possible through Votebeat, a nonpartisan news organization covering local election administration and voting access. Sign up for Votebeat Texas’ free newsletters here.Texas lawmakers on Tuesday asked the Texas Secretary of State’s Office for assurances that ...
Hundreds of Catholic devotees wrapped themselves in dried banana leaves and covered their bodies with mud on Wednesday in the Philippine village of Bibiclat, taking part in a display of faith honoring St. John the Baptist. The Taong Putik, or Mud People, festival is held annually...
University of Houston point guard Kingston Flemings and forward/center Chris Cenac Jr. became First-Round picks with their selections during the 2026 NBA Draft inside Barclays Center on Tuesday night.Flemings was taken with the #8 overall pick by the Atlanta Hawks while Cenac was...
Fort Bend County Interim Judge Daniel Wong is no longer legally the county judge, according to Commissioner Dexter McCoy.
The National Hockey League has taken a major step toward expanding into Texas, with Houston and Austin emerging as the leading candidates for a new franchise.Following Tuesday’s NHL Board of Governors meeting in New York, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman announced the league has app...
Longtime public official Jane Nelson is stepping down as Texas’ top election officer later this summer, after more than three years at the helm. As rumors swirl about who Gov. Greg Abbott will appoint as the next secretary of state, TribCast dives into the challenges Nelson has f...
The expansion will be discussed at the NHL board of governors meeting in New York this week.
The latest round of primary elections gets underway Tuesday in four states: Maryland, New York, South Carolina and Utah.The midterm elections in November will determine control of both chambers of Congress and will also see the election of dozens of governors and other state and ...
The NHL is exploring potential expansion to Texas with Houston and Austin among the possibilities, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press on Tuesday.The league's Board of Governors had their annual post-Stanley Cup Final and pre-draft meeting on Tuesday...
For the 10th time, the Senate will vote on a war powers resolution to block U.S. military action against Iran as lawmakers warily watch President Donald Trump's efforts to resolve a conflict that the administration launched on its own and now needs Congress to fund.The outcome Tu...
Longtime conservative commentator Tucker Carlson said on a podcast that "there's no chance I would support the Republican Party" ahead of the November midterm elections....
Trump's trip to the Allentown-area business comes as he works to try to put the Iran conflict - and the higher gasoline prices it caused - in the rearview mirror as November midterm elections draw closer....
Hundreds of Indigenous people have testified. They’ve sobbed, cursed and laughed in spite of it all. Many told stories about their time in boarding schools that they’ve kept inside for decades, finally able to begin recovering from childhood trauma.An oral history project led by ...
After a contentious primary, Texas Democrats will host their state convention in Corpus Christi this week and look to rally the party behind their ticket ahead of what they hope will be a midterm election that turns a cascade of seats blue.In what’s being billed as the largest ga...
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Brexit fractured the European Union, and broke British politics.The U.K. is about to get its seventh prime minister since June 23, 2016, a decade ago Tuesday, when the country voted 52%-48% to leave the EU after more than four decades of membership. Conservative Prime Minister Da...
Two opposing factions in the artificial intelligence industry square off in a Democratic primary for a U.S. House seat. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani tests his political clout by backing fellow democratic socialists. And President Donald Trump, after two of his chosen candid...
South Carolina voters return to the polls Tuesday to finalize the Republican nominee for governor in a runoff election that has become a bruising grudge match between two of the state's leading politicians.President Donald Trump initially endorsed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette over stat...
This coverage is made possible through Votebeat, a nonpartisan news organization covering local election administration and voting access. Sign up for Votebeat Texas’ free newsletters here.A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration’s overhaul of an immigration ver...
Mayor Whitmire claimed it was a fair use of the money because the buildings were attracting illegal dumping and clogging ditches, but critics worried it could set the city up for legal repercussions....
Summer travel is in full swing, and cruises are one of the season’s biggest draws. Travel expert Jeanenne Tornatore joined Houston Life to explain why more Americans are choosing to set sail, what’s new onboard this year and how some sailings are marking America’s 250th anniversa...
A federal judge on Monday ruled that a recently revamped version of a federal tool central to the Trump administration’s election integrity strategy is unlawful and can no longer be used.U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan sided with advocacy groups that argued the rec...
The Supreme Court on Monday reinstated a murder conviction in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz.The justices, by a 6-3 vote, granted an appeal from New York prosecutors who had urged them to undo a federal appeals court decision that overturned the verdict. The three...
The chosen readings, to be voted on soon by the State Board of Education, draw heavily from Christian perspectives.
Two of South Carolina’s top officeholders will compete one-on-one for the Republican nomination for governor in a primary runoff election on Tuesday. Voters will also select nominees for a handful of congressional races and other contests in which no candidate received a majority...
Democratic nomination contests for New York’s seats in the closely divided U.S. House take center stage Tuesday in a state primary where relatively few of the state’s top officeholders will appear on the ballot.One incumbent who is not up for election but has emerged as a key fig...
Texas students may soon attend social studies and reading classes that minimize racial, geographic and cultural diversity while emphasizing the Bible. The State Board of Education has two pivotal votes slated for this week that would usher in these changes: one on a rewrite of Te...
Simon Boyd’s firm makes prefabricated steel structures on the south coast of England and ships them to customers as far away as Ghana and Barbados. Mike Hawes represents Britain’s carmakers as the head of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.The business leaders were on...
New York's congressional candidates have a final chance to make their case Monday on the last full day of campaigning before a primary election in which an ascendant progressive left is taking on establishment Democrats.The races have become bellwethers of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's ...
A polarized Colombia gave conservative political outsider Abelardo de la Espriella a razor-thin lead in a runoff election that will be challenged in the coming days by the ruling party’s progressive candidate.De la Espriella, a business owner and lawyer who earned U.S. President ...
Deeply divided voters in Colombia are choosing the country's next president in a runoff Sunday that pits a progressive against a conservative outsider, with both candidates tapping into fears of a renewed internal conflict in the country.Their choice is between businessman and la...
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In a story published Jun. 19, 2026, about Democratic socialists, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was endorsed by the Chicago chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. He was not....
The Pearland Zoning Board of Adjustment on June 4 rejected a requested variance for an enclosed patio addition that encroaches on a 20-foot rear building line at 13704 Mooring Pointe Drive. The board also rejected variances for 5-foot side setbacks for two residential lots at N....
Pearland ISD Trustees this month have authorized the sale of 45 acres of district-owned land east of Pearland Parkway, declaring it a surplus property. “This is just the board saying, ‘we do not need this land,’” Superintendent Larry Berger said. “This is the first step to allow ...
The months-long task of balancing City of Pearland budgets with revenue kicks off this month with a city council workshop on Monday, June 22. A budget and tax rate for the city must be adopted before a new fiscal year begins Oct. 1. After the initial workshop in June, budget wo...
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