An approaching primary election was a factor in Thursday’s Supreme Court decision to set aside a lower court’s ruling that ...

Elected officials from Houston and across Texas were swift to react Tuesday after a federal court blocked a new congressional map passed by the state’s Republican lawmakers in a case that has major ...

The ruling is a major win for the Trump administration and Texas Republicans, who engineered the map to give the GOP control ...

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — The Supreme Court on Thursday came to the rescue of Texas Republicans, allowing next year’s elections ...

Travelers planning a Texas road trip can now scout out the state's best barbecue joints with the help of a new Texas ...

The Dec. 4 ruling, which overturned a lower court injunction issued two weeks earlier, comes just four days before the ...

The congressional redistricting Texas Republicans pushed forward this summer didn't just reshape two of Houston's most historically diverse districts: It also changed which voters there have the power ...

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For two decades, Houston’s Black Democratic voters have been able to leave the polls confident that at least two of the region’s 10 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives would reflect their ...

With a new year underway, Houston and the surrounding areas have many new exciting places for residents and their families to visit. From the Texas A&M University Space Institute, which will re-create ...

Four key takeaways from the Houston Chronicle's investigation of how risky practices benefit developers building in floodplains.

Between the time you probably last picked up a Key Map book and now, Houston's home-grown map company has been making moves. Sure, we might not use a physical map to get around anymore. Either you ...