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The top-paid City of Houston employees of 2023: Search our database

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Harris County's top-paid city employees for 2023: Search our database

Harris County's top-paid employee made $540K in 2023. Here's what every county worker gets paid.


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The Buc-ee's store is photographed after the solar eclipse Monday, April 8, 2024 in Bastrop.

Photo by: Yi-Chin Lee, Staff Photographer

Buc-ee's co-founder's son charged with recording guests in bathroom

The son of a Buc-ee's co-founder was indicted after he was accused of creating "invasive visual recordings" of visitors at his family's lake house and his residence. 

Shown are anomalies in sea surface temperatures across the Atlantic basin between July and September, according to the European forecast model. Temperatures across the Main Development Region of the Atlantic, which extends from the Yucatán Peninsula to the Cabo Verde Islands off the coast of Africa, are expected to be several degrees above the baseline temperature in this area.

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Record-warm Gulf of Mexico may spell trouble for hurricane season

The Atlantic hurricane season kicks off June 1 and the Gulf of Mexico is unusually warm. Here's what that could mean for the season.

FILE - Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan presides over the House at the Capitol in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday May 23, 2023. Runoffs in Texas are putting two prominent Republicans on edge: U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, who has broken ranks over guns and the border, and Phelan, who angered the party's hard right over the impeachment of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

Photo by: Jay Janner, AP

Dade Phelan escaped a primary threat. Now he faces a GOP battle for his speakership

The Texas House speaker, under attack from fellow Republicans including Ken Paxton and Dan Patrick, was confident he would win another term.

The Harding Street house where Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas were killed in a botched narcotics raid, photographed on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, in Houston. Former HPD officers Gerald Goines and Steven Bryant, along with Patricia Garcia, a neighbor of Tuttle and Nicholas, were taken into custody today and charged with a variety of federal crimes.

Photo by: Jon Shapley, Staff Photographer

More depositions ordered in Harding Streets civil rights lawsuit

The Harding Street Raid left two dead and created one of the Houston Police Department's biggest scandals in decades.

State Senate District 15 runoff election results

Photo by: Matt Zdun

How your neighbors voted in the primary runoff election

See how your neighborhood voted in two key races: state Senate District 15, where state Sen. Molly Cook won, and state House District 146, where union organizer Lauren Ashley Simmons won.


Pick of the Day

Former NFL Pittsburgh Steelers player Hines Ward is selling his family's Houston-area home at 19114 Caney Creek Mills Ln in Cypress. 

Photo by: Houston Association Of Realtors

Super Bowl MVP's Houston-area home hits the market for $2.1 million

Former NFL star and Texans head coaching candidate Hines Ward's relatively new home in Cypress features a mini-golf green and its own outdoor oasis. 


What else is going on

Slices of bacon being grilled,

Photo by: Zeljkosantrac/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Humble hosts first ever bacon festival with live music and a cook-off

Bacon enthusiasts around the Houston area who have dreamed of drinking bacon-flavored lemonade will be able to Saturday at Humble's first ever Bacon Festival. 

A restaurant worker models with a pork chop Wednesday, May 29, 2024, at Haywire in Houston.

Photo by: Jon Shapley, Staff Photographer

Dallas import Haywire opens in Memorial City with Texas-inspired cuisine

A multi-level restaurant spanning 20,000 square feet with multiple bars and a forthcoming party barn is serving up a "Texas-inspired" menu.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality uses air monitoring vans to test for hydrogen sulfide and other air pollutants. This van was used in Houston on Feb. 23, 2021.

Photo by: Marie D. De Jesús/Houston Chronicle File Photo

Houston is the dirtiest city in America, new study says

The study cited Houston's greenhouse gas emissions from large industrial facilities and a large cockroach problem.

The Waffle Bus to open new location in Bridgeland at 10615 Fry Rd.

Photo by: Submitted By The Waffle Bus

The Waffle Bus to expand with new location in Cypress area

The Waffle Bus menu offers a buttermilk fried chicken & waffle meal that allows you to choose from several sauces. 

Families with Pride moves to Discovery Green for 2024.

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Pride event will celebrate all families at Discovery Green

The third annual Families with Pride will feature live entertainment, exhibits and more.

Light Years co-owner Steve Buechner looks through some of his stock in his hybrid wine shop-wine bar Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020, in Houston.

Photo by: Steve Gonzales/Staff Photographer

Three Houston bars named among Best Bars in America by Esquire

Houston ranks high in the number of bars named on the list this year, tied with San Francisco and beat out only by cocktail capital New York City. 


Report Card

Houston ISD Superintendent Mike Miles speaks before the district's first public budget workshop for the 2024-2025 school year at the Hattie Mae White Educational Support Center, Thursday, May 15, 2024, in Houston.

Photo by: Jason Fochtman, Staff Photographer

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