Rutherford County Commissioner Craig Harris seeks to be the next county mayor, a press release announced June 24.

The Commission also made cuts to some departments within Shelby County government to get various other priorities funded.

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris vetoed a grant sponsored by Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. due to Ford's pending federal charges ...

The Harris County Flood Control District has hosted 10 public meetings to explain Proposition A to residents, a ballot measure asking for a nearly 60% tax hike for maintenance.

Houston (KIAH) -- On election day, over 250 Harris County tax office employees will be trained to answer election judge and voter questions. The Harris County Tax Office has traditionally assisted ...

Bennett's office collects property taxes, processes vehicle registrations, and manages voter registration and records for Harris County's more than 2.5 million registered voters.

The elected official in charge of Harris County’s voter registration and tax collection appears to have been absent from her office for years, last swiping her ID to enter the county building in ...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — Three former Harris County Tax Office employees are accused of taking bribes in exchange for processing fake car transactions. Diana Flores-Cibrien, 34, is one of the ...

Based on a statement from the Harris County Tax Collector, the three employees were indicted after an investigation revealed they took bribes in exchange for processing fake car transactions.

The county clerk ran elections, while the tax assessor-collector's office handled voter registration, a holdover from when Texas instituted poll taxes, a post Civil War-era practice often used to ...

For more information, visit Harris County's Office of Management and Budget's FY2025 budget proposal. Editor's Note: This initial report said that the property tax rate was increasing from 3.5% to 8%.

Harris County judicial appeal property tax savings increased to $313.4 million in 2021, a 428% increase. Texas-wide judicial appeal property tax savings have risen from $215.9 million in 2012 to ...