Ultra Texas restaurant and entertainment venue The Rustic is packing up its spurs and moving (south) west from Downtown Houston to … Downtown Houston. The chain co-owned by country star Pat Green announced Monday it is leaving its 1836 Polk St. home ahead of a controversial move by the city to abandon it.

The City Council voted Wednesday to close Polk Street for the $2 billion expansion of the George R. Brown Convention Center — an early step in a 15-year plan Houston First says will “redefine” downtown, and critics say will cut a vital East End connection without enough transparency or traffic mitigation.

The proposed $16 million purchase of a 150 to 225-bed facility was delayed on Wednesday after community pushback on the “superhub” intensified.

Police say a couple was killed along the Katy Freeway and Taylor Street early Friday morning. All eastbound mainlanes have reopened.

One of Texas' most unique Whataburger restaurants, located 20 feet below Downtown Houston's streets, will soon serve up some of its last orders of patty melts, cheeseburgers and fries. The unit in the Downtown Houston tunnel will be closing on Sept.