The Latest Breaking News from City Council

Turner, 68, revealed earlier this month that he underwent treatment for bone cancer in June. He is “cancer-free” as of last week, the mayor told The Texas Tribune during his first interview about his health.

City officials in Nederland, Texas, are kicking around the idea of limiting new massage parlors to industrial areas of town.

Austin’s lawyers said her medical records are “startling,” and she “cannot cooperate fully with counsel or withstand the stress of a trial.”

Monique Owens shouted over critical speakers at a September city council meeting, claiming it was her "First Amendment right."

U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia is joining a crowded field of candidates hoping to unseat Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot

“Folks know me,” the 66-year-old Garcia told the Sun-Times. “They know what I’ve done.” In 2015, Garcia, now a Democratic congressman, forced then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel into Chicago’s first mayoral runoff election.

LOS ANGELES — Rick Caruso and Karen Bass both asserted their optimism Wednesday about an eventual victory in the Los Angeles mayor’s race, with both saying they would not let the slowly unfolding tabulation get in the way of their plans for a quick transition into the city’s top job.

LOS ANGELES — Businessman Rick Caruso and U.S. Rep. Karen Bass were in a virtual dead heat Tuesday night in the historically expensive race for mayor of Los Angeles, though the first returns remain far from definitive in what is expected to be a close contest.

Chicago mayors and their City Council allies routinely put innocuous referendums on the ballot to keep off more controversial questions.