Houston Chronicle on LinkedIn: This new Westchase shop has some of the city’s best Asian snacks (2024)

Airport officials say they are bullish on Hobby Airport’s new dining options, despite some concern about a lagging transition one year after Houston City Council gave thecontentious contractto a competitor of Pappas Restaurants.

When a family of ducks found themselves trapped in rushing traffic on the Westpark Tollway, a group of first responders and concerned civilians teamed up to rescue the displaced brood and her ducklings.Read more here: https://lnkd.in/g5qY8NNS📸: Caroline Walker-Trulock

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Thelatest assault by severe stormson Friday in Southeast Texas has folks scratching their rain-soaked heads and wondering: Why has it been so rainy in Houston lately? Is this normal or is something going on?

Theunprecedented takeover of Houston ISDby the Texas Education Agency dates back to 2019, when Wheatley High School triggered a state law by failing to meet the accountability standard for seven consecutive years. What followed was a four-year legal battle ultimately leading to the state seizing control of the largest school district in Texas.Here's a look back at the major events that led us to this point.

The Texas Supreme Court declined Friday to provide relief for nearly two dozen womenwho sued over the state abortion ban’s emergency exception,rejecting their request to clarify the law despite numerous accounts that it is too broad for physicians to intervene.

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The first year of the Texas Education Agency'stakeover of Houston ISDhas been mired in protests, walkouts and outcry due to staff turnover, controversial systemic reforms and more. The Chroniclepublished a surveyon May 16 asking Houston ISD parents, teachers and community members about their thoughts on the state takeover as the district wraps up its first year under TEA control.In one question, the Chronicle asked if the respondents' view of the district has improved, stayed the same or worsened in the last year. As of May 31, over 550 people have responded to the callout; 13 respondents said their view stayed the same, 11 said their view has improved and 528 respondents said their view of HISD has worsened.Here's a look at responses to the survey.

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Former NFL player and Super Bowl MVP Hines Ward is selling his modern Houston-area home for $2.1 million. Ward, who played his entire career for the Pittsburgh Steelers, from 1998 to 2011, recently listed his family’s 5,577-square-foot home at 19114 Caney Creek Mills Lane in Cypress.

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State Sen. Molly Cook narrowly defeated state Rep. Jarvis Johnson as the two faced off for the second time this month inthe race to securethe Texas Senate seat previously held byMayor John Whitmire. Cook triumphed over Johnson again, 50.2% to 49.8%,during the primary runoff. With 18,782 votes cast in the low-turnout election, Cook prevailed by 74 votes. She will now face businessman JosephTrahan, the sole Republican to enter the race, in November.

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A nail-biter political fight for MayorJohnWhitmire's former state Senate seat and a hearty defeat of a four-term Democratic state representative who found herself on the outskirts of her own party — those were two of the highlights inHouston's primary runoff election. Search the Chronicle's interactive map to see how your neighborhood voted in the races for state Senate District 15 (Whitmire's former seat) where state Sen. Molly Cookdefeatedstate Rep. Jarvis Johnson by a slim 74-vote margin and state House District 146 where union organizer Lauren Ashley Simmonsemerged victoriousover sitting state Rep. Shawn Thierry by a nearly 2,000-vote margin.

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MayorJohn Whitmirerevealed plans to scrap the city’s$3.5 million ShotSpotter program, positioning Houston as the latest city government to abandon the controversial gunshot detection technology after a brief experiment."I think it is a gimmick," Whitmire told the Chronicle on Wednesday. "I think it was cooked up by contractors and, personally, talking to officers, it doesn't do any good."