My Gulfton District

Honored in March During a patrol shift for the Houston Police Department, Jose Juarez heard the most terrifying sound an officer can experience and live to tell about it. It was the sharp [...]

The flavors of Gulfton’s immigrant neighborhoods are celebrated daily at its restaurants where diners sample gorditas from Mexico, injera from Ethiopia, pupusas from El Salvador and croquetas from Cuba. But at Bubba’s Texas Burger Shack, 5230 [...]

Diego Carnero, left, & Carlos Contreras Located in the northwest corner of Houston’s Gulfton neighborhood, at the intersection of Hillcroft Avenue and the Southwest Freeway, La Telera restaurant reliably serves authentic antojitos — [...]

A local nonprofit has expanded its reach into the Gulfton Area to help meet students’ needs for necessities like clothing and shoes — and to provide ways for families without transportation to access food. Kay [...]

Two striking scenarios take place in the Gulfton community: In one, a 17-year-old Afghan refugee, driving a car owned by his family, finds himself chased by seven police officers for disobeying a traffic light whose [...]

Jessica Zamer After undergoing open heart surgery in 2003, Jessica Zamer quickly learned the importance of body conditioning. When she discovered Pilates, and learned how to breathe and move according to its principles, [...]

Gulfton community leaders are celebrating news of a half-million-dollar federal grant headed their way to enhance mobility for residents of the densely populated community. The $552,000 U.S. Department of Transportation grant will allow the City [...]

When she emigrated to the United States from Peru more than 20 years ago, Belen Bailey never imagined she would one day run a successful pastry shop in Houston’s Gulfton neighborhood. Bailey, 50, is a Spanish-teacher-turned-entrepreneur [...]

A former residential facility for young people in custody of the Harris County Juvenile Probation Department is now a place of new beginnings, burgeoning with hope and opportunity, after being transformed, physically and ideologically, into [...]

Owner Omer Yousafai, left, with restaurant customers As the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan intensified a year and a half ago, Houston resident and Afghan national Najidullah Sharisi wanted to do more than [...]