Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has announced that the special election to fill the late Democratic U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner's seat won’t be held until November.

Carole Keeton, the first woman elected mayor in Austin and the first woman to be Texas comptroller, died this week. She was 85. Her son, Brad McClellan, told the Austin American-Statesman ...

But perhaps no figure has been as associated with the failure to air condition Texas prisons than former State Sen. John Whitmire, who is now the mayor of Houston. Whitmire is not the sole reason ...

After eight years, George Fuller’s time as McKinney’s mayor is coming to an end, and four candidates are competing to take ...

Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott is blaming a history of election problems in the state’s most populous county for his delay in ...

Residents of Boca Chica Beach near Elon Musk's SpaceX will vote on incorporating Starbase as a city and elect its first mayor ...

ARLINGTON, Texas — Arlington Mayor Jim Ross is no fan of tariffs, and he doesn’t see how they benefit any Texan. So, he was relieved when President Donald Trump announced another temporary ...

Carole Keeton, who went from being a 37-year-old mayor of Austin as a single mother of four boys to the "one tough grandma" in charge of Texas' finances a generation later, was remembered as a ...

Two initiatives aimed at improving pedestrian safety could be scrapped by Mayor John Whitmire as a crosswalk ... for Citizens for Road Safety Texas told Chron. "Keeping the raised crosswalk ...

With early starting April 22, candidates for San Antonio mayor are battling for both voter support and campaign dollars.

Strayhorn served as Austin's mayor from 1977 to 1983, before serving as a railroad commissioner in the 1990s and as Texas ...