Residents of District C will be able to return to the polls starting April 29 to decide between two candidates running to replace Houston City Council member Abbie Kamin.

At the polls: Early voting will run from April 29 through May 12, with election day set for May 16. Harris County will operate six voting centers during early voting and 20 on election day, according to an April 28 release from the county clerk's office.

Voting centers will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday-Saturday during the early voting period. On Sundays, polls will open at noon and close at 7 p.m. To see a full list of voting centers, residents can visit the Harris Votes website.

Edikted was founded in 2020 in Los Angeles, California and is described as a brand that creates accessible streetwear-inspired looks designed "to capture the spirit of modern-day muses."

What to know: The brand sells a variety of tops, bottoms, dresses, swimwear and accessories for the younger generation of women, including cropped t-shirts, jean skirts, mini dresses and bikini tops. Accessories include bracelets, belts, rings, sunglasses and bags. 

The event: Edikted will open its first retail location in Houston at The Galleria with a grand opening celebration May 2 at 10 am. The event will include free giveaways, live music and sweet treats.

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In a one-year snapshot of Greater Houston attitudes, residents expressed the largest drop in confidence about regional job opportunities in more than 40 years, according to survey results released April 27 from the Kinder Institute for Urban Research.

About the data: Rice University researchers collected nearly 9,000 responses between January and February from residents in Harris, Fort Bend and Montgomery counties.

At a glance: One quarter of residents across all three counties named the economy as the “biggest problem” facing the Houston area this year compared to 16% in 2025, survey results show.

Crime and safety was the second-most commonly identified problem, followed by the cost of housing for Harris County residents and traffic for residents of Fort Bend and Montgomery counties. 

Another detail: The percentage of residents reporting they are “just getting by” or “finding it difficult to get by” increased across all income groups in the past year, survey results show.

Also of note: About 7 in 10 residents expressed concern about the environment’s effects on their health, researchers found. 

Friendswood and Alief ISDs had the largest percentages of students with dyslexia and autism across the Greater Houston area, according to Texas Education Agency data released March 13 and April 9.

The overview: Community Impact analyzed 30 local school districts across the Greater Houston region to determine which schools have the most students enrolled in special education programs.

According to the data, the districts with the largest total of students receiving special education services in 2025-26 are:

• Houston ISD with 21,430 students
• Katy ISD with 18,443 students
• Cy-Fair ISD with 17,584 students
• Fort Bend ISD with 12,688 students
• Conroe ISD with 11,239 students

In the early hours of July 4, 2025, an intense rainstorm pummeled communities in the Texas Hill Country, submerging low-water crossings as segments of the Guadalupe River rose more than 30 feet in 90 minutes. Twenty-seven young campers and counselors died at Camp Mystic, a private Christian girls summer camp located along the river in Hunt.

Those deaths could have been prevented if camp leadership took action sooner or had a written evacuation plan in place, investigators told a panel of state lawmakers tasked with studying the flood response during an April 27 hearing.

Quote of note: “Questions about what should happen next are many, but for me, one thing is clear: This tragedy could have been prevented,” Sen. Pete Flores, R-Pleasanton, said.

Zooming in: Camp Mystic staff had more than two hours to evacuate 386 campers from their cabins, investigator Casey Garrett said.

In violation of state law, the camp did not have a written evacuation plan and counselors were not trained on what to do in an emergency, she said.