Harris County hosts 67 district courts in total: 29 criminal, 24 civil, 11 family and three juvenile. Today, Democrats hold ...

Ten Republicans won county judicial seats this election, putting a dent in Democrats’ recent dominance of control over local ...

This is Houston Landing’s second installment of its Who are HOU? series. Steve Duble, a Harris County Justice of the Peace, ...

Republicans won 10 judgeships in Harris County, suggesting a GOP resurgence in a historically Democratic area.

But the Texas Supreme Court denied that effort and election duties ... Election issues also turned from civil to criminal in ...

Voting straight ticket, as in picking candidates from a single party all the way down the ballot, is generally a bad idea, but especially so for Harris County's district courts. The civil courts ...

HCSO sergeant who shot and killed suspected shoplifter Roderick Brooks in July 2022. He said it was self-defense.

In most counties, the district that justices of the peace serve are redrawn periodically, so each court serves roughly the ...

The county judge was joined by her fiancé, David James, a civil rights and personal ... Correction: Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo picked up her official marriage license at the County Clerk's ...

Long-time civil rights attorney John Burris, who supported Harris’s decision at the time ... She chose to kick off her 2020 ...

The Justice Department said on Friday it will monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws in 86 jurisdictions in 27 ...

Here's what you need to know about the 5th District Court of Appeal judges on the Nov. 5 ballot, many of whom are from ...