Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bandit signs are shown along Ley Rd. at North Wayside Dr. in Houston on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. Signs proliferated during the ...

State legislation recently filed by a Montgomery County lawmaker could spell trouble for companies erecting illegal signs to advertise their businesses in northwest Harris County. The bandit signs are ...

Legislation targeting "bandit" signs died on the Texas Senate floor last week, but northwest Harris County community leaders say they are not giving up their fight to rein in individuals and companies ...

Lawmakers in Austin are poised to send a message to companies cluttering telephone poles, road medians and public rights-of-way with offers of jobs, houses and predatory loans: Bandit signs are not ...

In this week’s podcast, reporter Doron Taussig has a horrible nightmare … that might come true! He dreams that bandit signs on streetlights and utility poles have become legal in the city. In fact, ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) A new state law allows the county to sue companies placing signs along public rights of way. Officials call them 'bandit signs', and say they're everywhere. The county filed suit ...

SAN ANTONIO — They appear overnight, staked into medians, taped to poles and planted at busy intersections across the city. The handwritten signs advertise quick cash, houses for rent, or job offers.

A small confession: Those little plastic signs stuck in the ground near roadways that advertise Christmas light installers, cheap internet, ugly houses or any of dozens of other services drive me ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — Starting Monday, people who post “bandit signs” along Beaumont roadways will face steep new fines under a state law aimed at cleaning up city streets. House Bill 3611, signed into ...

Luz Lopez could see the writing on the wall, or more specifically the writing on the telephone poles and along the sidewalks and often in the medians of the busy streets in and around her Cloverleaf ...