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HOUSTON — During Wednesday's city council meeting, Houston Mayor John Whitmire announced a city-sponsored homeless encampment will soon be established to address the ongoing issue of unhoused ...

To hear Whitmire tell it, the protesters—who’ve demonstrated in front of his home near Memorial Park on the west side at least a dozen times in the past six months—were altogether more ...

The Rice Military crossing sits just blocks from Mayor John Whitmire’s home and has drawn his attention for years. He says he believes the city has failed to do what he and others thinks needs ...

Mayor John Whitmire is set to unveil his first budget proposal in the coming days, shaping how billions in city funds will be spent on services from public safety to trash pickup in the new fiscal ...

In his first State of the City address on Tuesday, Mayor John Whitmire mostly stuck to the past, whether it be his accomplishments on his road to becoming Houston's mayor or the perceived failures ...

Mayor John Whitmire said Wednesday that Houston plans to open its own "city-sponsored encampment" so that homeless people have a place to go. "The homeless in public space is just not going to be ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Following a recent corruption scandal centered on misusing $8.5 million taxpayer dollars, Houston Mayor John Whitmire seeks to expand the city's ongoing audit. In June ...

Rebecca Hersher (she/her) is a reporter on NPR's Climate Desk, where she reports on climate science, weather disasters, infrastructure and how humans are adapting to a hotter world. Since coming ...

HOUSTON — During Wednesday's city council meeting, Houston Mayor John Whitmire announced a city-sponsored homeless encampment will soon be established to address the ongoing issue of unhoused ...