President Donald Trump is pushing a federal show of force in U.S. cities and Houston finds itself sharing similar crime data with the places under Trump's scrutiny. Public concern for crime and the ...

Whitmire had vowed to bring 200 state troopers to help patrol Houston’s highways, but nearly two years into his term, data ...

Houston might be booming in business and population, but a new study suggests it's falling far behind when it comes to safety. The Bayou City landed at 176th out of 182 cities in WalletHub's annual ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Houston police are asking for help solving a crime at an apartment complex, the City of Houston alleges is a nuisance. In April, the City of Houston filed a nuisance lawsuit ...

As of January, there were 122 commissioned full-time troopers stationed in Harris County. In 2020, there were 135.

HOUSTON – Mayor John Whitmire is responding to Governor Greg Abbott’s announcement of a new violent crime task force that will launch in Houston and Harris County. Abbott unveiled the initiative ...

Gov. Greg Abbott announced a new joint operation during a press conference at the DPS Southeast Texas Regional Headquarters in Houston on Wednesday afternoon. Abbott detailed a violent crimes task ...

To hear it in online message boards, Midtown isn't what it once was. "Montrose is still good but Midtown has dropped off," one user wrote on Reddit. "Felt like a bunch of kids with fake IDs and some ...

While previous deployments to Democratic-led cities have largely led to protests and lawsuits, Trump is banking on the moves ...

HOUSTON — Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday announced a new state and local task force to target repeat violent criminals in Houston and Harris County. The governor called it a "Texas-sized ...