As Houston Mayor John Whitmire passed his first year in office, the former dean of the Texas Senate stumbled upon a surprise ...

Mayor John Whitmire is offering voluntary retirement incentives to 2,700 retirement-eligible city employees as a way to cut ...

Whitmire wants to implement a hiring freeze in the city government. As of September, the city had nearly 5,000 vacant positions.

The retirement incentive comes on the heels of a hiring freeze. The city faces a more than $330 million projected budget ...

Houston was the first U.S city to create a human trafficking and domestic violence prevention office. But its status in ...

The city in January lost a legal appeal at the Texas Supreme Court ... to court for years before the appeal denial in January. Whitmire has said the city intends to comply with the court ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Houston will implement a citywide hiring freeze this week, according to Houston Mayor John Whitmire. Mayor Whitmire shared the news exclusively with ABC13 on Wednesday. He ...

Some local Muslims plan to once again boycott Whitmire's appearance at annual Ramadan event over his refusal to call for a ...

"A lot of meeting space, including the largest ballroom in the state of Texas, which we are very proud of," said Michael Heckman, president of Houston First Corporation. "It will allow us to book a ...

HOUSTON — Houston Mayor John Whitmire told KHOU 11 he is confident ... the first death in the current measles outbreak in West Texas, a school-aged child who was not vaccinated against the ...

Tributes have been pouring in for Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner of Texas since he died after attending President Donald ...

Sylvester Turner, D-Texas, has died two months after taking office and hours ... During Wednesday's Houston City Council meeting, Mayor John Whitmire announced Turner's death, saying it "comes as a ...