The Houston school district uses an at-large voting system to elect its seven trustees, instead of a system in which board ...

James Cross’ May 3 victory against school board president Victor Perez, who had championed conservative policies regarding ...

U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, a Houston Democrat, visited the 11-year-old girl and her family last week in Mexico. Garcia says ...

Current state law allows children as young as 16 to marry if they are legally emancipated from their parents, a situation ...

Instead of immediately complying with a voter-approved charter requiring a certain level of spending on street and drainage ...

Simmons was elected in November to represent District 146 in the Texas House. She sat down with The Texas Newsroom to lay out ...

The agency did not offer details about the types of crimes or immigration violations the majority of the people were accused ...

One of the likely casualties is a bill that would have transferred tens of millions of dollars in surplus funds from the ...

Federal Bureau of Investigation officials on Monday said Miziah Brice Shepherd was arrested in connection to the arson days ...

In his plea agreement, Williams admitted to stealing over $10,000 worth of cash and other valuables — including silver — from ...

The rapper's Instagram account says his lungs collapsed after he was stabbed 14 times, but he is "in good spirits." Lanez is ...

House Bill 4 would make the test shorter and base scores on how students’ performance compares to national averages.