Texas will be receiving the biggest slice of the federal government’s first rollout of a $50 billion fund created to fortify rural health care across the country.
An appeals court has overturned the conviction of Austin police officer Christopher Taylor in a fatal shooting in downtown Austin in 2019, and in a rare move, acquitted Taylor.
Texas Southern University has “significant” financial weaknesses, the result of whole departments bypassing established purchase guardrails and the university failing to enforce established contract and accounting procedures, a state audit released this week reveals.
State Rep. James Talarico raised nearly $7 million for his U.S. Senate run during the latest fundraising quarter, increasing his total haul to $13 million since launchi
The mission known as Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo, located in Jackson County, Texas, was thought to have been lost. The Texas Tech archeology team, along with a few contributors, were able to finally find this mission after lots of hard work.
A 19-year-old girl disappeared from her northwest Bexar County home on Christmas Eve morning and has not been seen since, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office confirmed.
A federal appeals court has ruled that the government is liable for damage to homes that flooded upstream of the Addicks and Barker dams after Hurricane Harvey unleashed more than 50 inches of rainfall on the Houston region in 2017.
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired in the fall after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
More than 300 people attended an impromptu meeting that industry leaders in the Rio Grande Valley hosted to draw attention to the chilling effect ICE arrests have had on construction.
Months after public health officials say they caused the nation’s largest measles surge in 30 years, some West Texas Mennonites have grown more skeptical of the mainstream medical system.
A Waco justice of the peace who refused to marry same-sex couples filed a federal lawsuit Friday that asks the courts to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 Supreme Court decision that recognized same-sex marriage nationwide.
A Flint man has been sentenced to a year in state jail Thursday for knocking the hands and nose off a statue of Jesus at St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Church in Flint.
In the week since Texas’ new “bathroom bill” designed to target transgender people went into effect, some opponents of the restrictions have begun challenging both the spirit and letter of the law as questions remain on how it can be enforced.
When the Trump administration halted immigration applications for people from 19 countries on a federal travel ban list in late November, it sent a fresh wave of upheaval and fear across Texas.
Southwest Airlines is building a new crew base for pilots and flight attendants that will bring 2,000 new jobs to Austin as part of an economic development agreement struck between the company, the city and the state, the company announced at a Friday news conference alongside Gov. Greg Abbott.
U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett leads state Rep. James Talarico by 8 percentage points in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, according to a poll released Friday.
An intermediate appellate court in Waco has thrown out a lawsuit filed by State Rep. Pat Curry against a Virginia-based political action committee that called Curry a “turncoat” and disseminated his personal cell phone number.
On Abbott’s tax-cut agenda: getting rid of school property taxes for homeowners, putting tighter limits on how much property values can rise and making it tougher for local governments to raise taxes even as their regions boom.
The United States Department of Justice asked a federal court Tuesday to dismiss a case that required Texas to reform 13 state facilities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation of almost 1,000 Texas cities, including Waco, to ensure municipal transparency and stop unlawful tax increases, according to a press release.
By Leslie Radford, Paige Stockton and Madison Fisher
A North Texas father says his 3-year-old son has died and the boy’s mother has been arrested on a capital murder charge, according to a statement posted on social media.
Texas has launched its new cryptocurrency reserve with a $5 million purchase of Bitcoin as the state continues to embrace the volatile and controversial digital currency.
U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Dallas, on Monday filed to run for U.S. Senate, scrambling the Democratic field after teasing her potential entry for months.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Wednesday proposed a state program to give every baby born in Texas $1,000 invested in the stock market, modeling the idea off a federal plan created as part of President Donald Trump’s tax and spending legislation.
Senate Bill 8, which takes effect on Thursday, places new restrictions on which restrooms transgender people can use in certain government-owned buildings and schools.
In their latest effort to boost camp oversight in the wake of the deadly July 4 floods, Texas officials have proposed hiking annual licensing fees for operators by thousands of dollars and slashing the number of camp representatives on a statewide committee that advises on industry regulations.
Defending Texas sovereignty has been central to Abbott’s political identity. Yet he has helped Trump erode states’ authority over elections, policing and deploying the National Guard.
The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles is implementing more stringent photo identification requirements for all vehicle registrations and renewals in an abrupt shift that could shut out undocumented residents from legally owning vehicles.
Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath recently met with a top official from Turning Point USA to discuss creating chapters of the conservative youth organization in all of the state’s high schools, days before Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick promised $1 million in campaign funds to help bring the project to life.
Last week, Paxton filed a lawsuit against Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to put an end to three university work-study programs that he says unconstitutionally discriminate against religious students.
