Continued collaboration between justice stakeholders and a targeted approach to reducing time for case disposition will be critical for a sustainable reduction in jail population, according to county ...

Harris County ... form of government through which the mayor, rather than a city manager, proposes the budget and hires and fires department heads. In his first 100 days in office, Whitmire appointed ...

Equity frameworks were never used to redirect cash from the record $2.5 billion flood bond passed after Hurricane Harvey. A ...

The extent of the funding gap surprised some county officials. The vast majority of projects are still in planning and design ...

Former Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg spouts unproven claims of 2022 election fraud and blisters Houston leaders in ...

Shark Tank alum Mark Cuban revealed he was courted as a possible running mate by Kamala Harris’ team during the 2024 ...

Harris County contract workers will have to wait until at least October for the higher minimum wage policy to take effect instead of this summer after Harris County commissioners unanimously ...

Shelby County Commissioners will try to get most of the heavy lifting in their budget season done this week. Their June 23 meeting will be the last regularly scheduled one before the new fiscal year ...

Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley ...

The delay comes months after commissioners approved a plan to increase minimum wage for county employees to $20 an hour and $21.65 for contracted employees. The county last approved a pay increase ...

After Harris County Commissioners Court approved $8 million for homelessness services, the City of Houston’s housing department claimed the money would “go directly towards the Mayor’s Homelessness ...