Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo overall received the lowest net-approval rating based on job performance of any elected ...

More than half of Harris County voters say the county is moving in the wrong direction — and they're sizing up local leaders and would-be county judges ahead of the 2026 election, per a recent ...

Chronicle readers are invited to a private Zoom with former Houston Mayor Annise Parker as she runs to replace Lina Hidalgo as Harris County Judge.

Fifty-five percent of respondents said they approved of the job Gonzalez is doing, and 22 percent disapprove, netting the ...

Annise Parker, who takes the oath of office on Jan. 7, grew up the painfully shy, tomboy ...

On the one-year anniversary of her historic election victory, Houston Mayor Annise Parker scored another win on Tuesday night, as voters passed Proposition 1, an $8 billion, 20-year plan to ...

Annise Parker, who is serving her final year as Houston's mayor, has left her mark on the nation’s fourth-largest city and become a national figure in LGBT politics. Doing both at the same time ...

Annise Parker made worldwide headlines in 2009 when Houston voters elected her as the city’s first openly gay mayor. Houston became the largest city in America at the time to elect a gay ...

Annise Parker, who led Houston City Hall from 2010 to 2016, is considering a run for Harris County judge in 2026, according to two sources.

LGBTQ+ Victory Fund President and CEO Annise Parker. Photo illustration by Kyle Neal. Years before Annise Parker was elected Houston’s mayor in 2010, she encountered a 17-year-old unsheltered youth.

HOUSTON - Houston Mayor Annise Parker has rallied supporters of a defeated ordinance that would have established nondiscrimination protections for gay and transgender people in the city, ...

OUSTON, TX- Today, Mayor Annise Parker joined BARC Animal Shelter and Adoptions and the new parents of some of Mayor Parker's BARC Pets of the Week to celebrate new families that formed, thanks to ...