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

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.

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.

When Annise Parker won her first Houston mayoral race back in 2009, the Houston Chronicle described her as “the first contender in a generation to defeat the hand-picked candidate of Houston’s ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 Mayor Annise Parker filed the papers Thursday to put her name on the November ballot, a move that so far appears to be a formality on her path toward a second two-year term. "I'm going to ...

Houston Mayor Annise Parker drinks coffee from a mug that says "I heart Mom" during a morning meeting with her staff in the Houston City Hall, Wednesday, June 24, 2015, in Houston.

Ending months of increasingly frantic, nervous speculation by Prince William and (especially) Kate Middleton, Mayor Annise Parker has greatly eased their minds by officially writing a ...