1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (421+ words) Andy Cerota, Anchor / Reporter HOUSTON – If you live in an apartment, the City of Houston wants to make sure the building you call home is not putting you at risk. Houston City Council recently approved a new High-Risk Apartment Inspection…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (503+ words) HOUSTON – For the first time since 2023, thousands of Houstonians seeking affordable housing will have an opportunity to apply for public housing as Housing Alliance HTX prepares to reopen waitlists for eight public housing communities later this month. The agency announced…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (386+ words) KATY, Texas – For many Houstonians, the workday doesn’t start at the office, it starts on the road. A new survey from A Mission for Michael is putting a spotlight on just how draining that daily drive can be, naming the…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (127+ words) In this rare clash of sitting incumbents, Houston Democratic Reps. Al Green and Christian Menefee are squaring off after the Legislature consolidated their two Houston districts, both long represented by Black Democrats, into one during last summer’s redistricting. The two…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (495+ words) HOUSTON – The City of Houston could soon begin charging residents a new monthly fee tied to solid waste services, something city leaders say has never been done before. Mayor John Whitmire’s administration is proposing what it calls an “administrative fee…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (281+ words) HOUSTON – The Houston City Council is set to vote Wednesday on whether dozens of traffic-calming measures already installed across the city will become permanent. The focus is on speed cushions, which are raised sections of roadway designed to slow drivers…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (896+ words) The high state legal battle over the sale of natural smokable hemp products, such as flower buds and rolled joints, is going back to court today. This comes after a Travis County Judge temporarily lifted the statewide hemp ban earlier…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (680+ words) Texas’ largest city is expected to consider amending a policy that limits cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities, as it faces a major funding threat from Gov. Greg Abbott. But ahead of the Wednesday vote, civil rights…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (381+ words) HOUSTON – Things got heated at Tuesday’s Houston City Council meeting, a day after the State of Texas threatened to pull more than $110 million in public safety grants over the city’s recently passed ordinance limiting when the Houston Police Department can…...

5+ mon, 3+ hour ago   (1279+ words) HOUSTON – The headline numbers from BridgeCare’s Health & Hunger pop-up are easy to list: 100 hygiene kits and 100 hot meals handed out to neighbors experiencing homelessness. But if you ask the people who were there, the real story is what happened in…...