Businessman Laurent Saint-Cyr became the head of Haiti's transitional presidential council tasked with restoring order as gangs underscored the challenges facing the Caribbean nation.

Actor Dean Cain, best known for his starring role in the 1990s Superman TV spinoff Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, has announced he is planning to join U.S. Immigration and Customs ...

Republican state lawmakers argue their proposed congressional redistricting map would create Latino opportunity districts.

The local management organization for the Harrisburg area in east Houston will host an Aug. 19 information session about the ...

The proposal by County Judge Lina Hidalgo would have given Harris County voters a say on whether to support a tax increase to ...

District representatives declined to say how much money HISD is paying METRO so its students can utilize the transit agency's bus and light rail services.

Ten Texas Democrats as well as two Republicans – one from California and another from New York – are advocating federal ...

At least 12 people have died in the Harris County Jail this year, including Alexis Cardenas, a 32-year-old man who recently died during a struggle with officers who were escorting him to the exit door ...

Ali James, the State Preservation Board’s Curator of the Capitol, said Sen. Alford’s legislative portrait, and those of the ...

Houston Matters takes a tour of the costume shop, set workshop, and prop design studio to meet some of the unseen stars of ...

One of the brightest stars in the night sky seems to be orbited by a planet like Jupiter. The news is sure to cheer fans of ...

Biographer Peter Ames Carlin describes the making of Born to Run as an "existential moment" for Springsteen: "If this didn't ...