HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The City of Houston has voted to amend the city's code of ordinances to require outdoor music events on private property to have a permit if the attendance is 500 or greater.

Owners and operators of large charitable donation and recycling bins would have to get a permit from the city and pay an annual fee of $191 under an ordinance to be considered by City Council on ...

July 7, 2025 (Houston Style Magazine) — Houston, TX – July 7, 2025 – The blueprint for a better Houston just got a major fast-track upgrade. With an eye toward eliminating red tape and rebuilding ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Houston officials on Wednesday pushed back on claims that a detention facility being proposed in the city to house unaccompanied immigrant children is close to opening. The facility ...

The city department that receives plans for building permits has been so flooded with work that it's hired a private firm to help out. For roughly the past six months, the city has been working with a ...

Texas’ environmental regulators make it tricky for residents to track, or speak out against, industrial projects proposed near their homes. Advocates in Houston built a high-tech workaround. The ...

A big increase in Houston's commercial building permits in July offset a sharp drop in residential construction as apartment developers put the brakes on new projects in an oversupplied market.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality will hear public comments on the permit renewal of a concrete plant with a history of water and air pollution issues. "They have a history of ...

A controversial Houston center to hold unaccompanied migrant children run by Southwest Key may not be opening this week, as some previously thought. Officials with the city of Houston say the facility ...