The bill mandates a 70/30 split between the county and city for revenue generated through the Harris County Toll Road Authority, Bettencourt said in a Wednesday news release.

Harris County Judge Ed Emmett said a toll road connectivity project on Clay Road will help get people from fast-growing Katy prairie subdivisions to north-south arteries such as Fry Road.

Republican Harris County Commissioners Jack Cagle and Tom Ramsey want to keep the decennial process of redistricting precinct boundaries simple. The maps they have proposed would add new zigs and ...

Commissioners Court voted 3-2, along party lines, in support of the measure, which creates a corporation that will oversee duties currently carried out by Harris County Toll Road Authority, or HCTRA.