The freeze follows a third-party report on the City of Houston's $300 million budget shortfall. The results are in for Donald ...

The late Texas Congressman and former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner will lie in state at the Texas Capitol next week to ...

HOUSTON, Texas – Houston Mayor John Whitmire announced this week that a citywide hiring freeze will be taking place. Whitmire ...

Whitmire wants to implement a hiring freeze in the city government. As of September, the city had nearly 5,000 vacant ...

Houston Mayor John Whitmire on Wednesday announced the city is implementing a citywide hiring freeze beginning this week, as ...

Former Houston Mayor and U.S. Congressman Sylvester Turner has died, according to U.S. representatives and a Houston council ...

Sylvester Turner, a Democratic congressman and former mayor of Houston, has died at the age of 70. Turner died peacefully ...

Rep. Sylvester Turner "died peacefully" Wednesday, according to his office. He has attended President Donald Trump's ...

Thousands of open positions at the City of Houston will remain unfilled once a hiring freeze goes into effect on Friday.

The cause of death is unclear. Turner took office weeks ago, filling the seat left vacant by the death of Rep. Sheila Jackson ...

Turner's death came just months after he won Texas’ 18th Congressional District race. He served eight years as Houston's ...

Houston's former mayor, Congressman Sylvester Turner, passed away at 70 years old, Mayor Whitmire announced during a council ...