City commissioners approved four gates cutting off public access to most of the town, which residents recently voted to incorporate. The move raises legal and other questions.

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Originally a streetcar suburb for those escaping the city’s density in the 1890s, the Heights was annexed by Houston in 1918 and quickly evolved into one of the city’s most iconic neighborhoods.Today, ...

Local restaurants serve up comfort food that sticks to your ribs. Even the traffic lights seem to stay green a little longer here. This is small-town Texas at its most relaxed and welcoming. High ...

When Texas Republicans returned to the legislature in 2013, they adopted the court’s interim maps as the permanent maps, with only a few alterations. After the courts later ruled that the 2011 maps ...

“There’s legislation, laws that exist around people making terroristic threats, for example, against somebody in some states, but unfortunately not in Texas,” Castro explained. The Kaufman County ...