Melissa Enaje

Sugar Land homeowners were originally facing a property tax increase of about $96 a year — more than 6% — before City Council approved a lower tax rate this week.

Republican leaders in Texas are pushing ahead with efforts to crack down on alleged “birth tourism” as birthright citizenship has been at the center of a national legal fight.

After Wednesday's ruling, County Attorney Bridgette Smith-Lawson said the decision puts county business “in peril.”

The original Houston Comets team folded in 2008 after twelve years of operation, including four championship runs.

The FBISD school board approved attendance boundary changes that will affect where nearly 2,000 students will attend school in 2027-28.

For the first time in its 50-year-history, the local Meals on Wheels program was going to reduce its home delivered meals from seven to five meals per week last year. But the community stepped up to help delay cutting the number of meals it serves—at least until the end of this year.

Six candidates are competing for three key county leadership seats in races that could shape the future of the diverse, largely suburban and growing county outside of Houston.

The city’s investment means advancing extensive preservation work on the century-old Imperial Sugar Char House, a historic city landmark, while preparing the site for future redevelopment work.

Carmen Turner allegedly hired two tax clerks with county funds, only to employ them as caregivers for her 81-year-old mother. She's also accused of hiring the father of her adult son for a full-time job in Fort Bend, when prosecutors said he was working in Chicago.

If Tesla chooses Fort Bend County as the location for the new solar manufacturing facility, the company will be required to employ a minimum of 8,700-plus workers by the time the site is fully operational, in exchange for the tax break from the county.