While the inauguration wasn’t without its low points (i.e., Fred Phelps and his merry band of morons with their hatemongering signs), the swearing in of Houston’s 61st mayor – who is also the city’s ...

HOUSTON -- Mayor Annise Parker has issued a challenge to Mayor Libby Schaaf in advance of the Houston Rockets-Golden State Warriors Western Conference Finals series. Parker called Schaaf around ...

ROSHARON, TX (KTRK) -- Houston Mayor Annise Parker started 2015 by leaping out of a plane. Mayor Parker, joined by a bunch of brave staffers, went skydiving at Skydive Spaceland near Rosharon Sunday ...

As Hair Balls let you know last week, the New York City-based business and innovation magazine Fast Company picked Houston as its No. 1 City of the Year for 2011. Last Friday, at a luncheon sponsored ...

Headlines around the country have announced that America's fourth largest city has elected a lesbian mayor, but that's not the big news in Houston, Texas. Annise Parker has won seven elections in the ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Houston Mayor Annise Parker was awarded for her efforts to ...

Same-sex couples lined up at the Harris County District Clerk's Office today to request marriage licenses. Activists do this each year during National Freedom to Marry week. Mayor Parker, who is gay, ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Some are celebrating the fact that Mayor Annise Parker ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- We now know who will headline this year's Southwest Airlines Freedom over Texas in downtown Houston. It will be Grammy- and American Music Award-winning artist Jennifer Nettles, ...