Eliseo Jimenez, 18, made his way to the Texas state capitol walking 374 miles from Lubbock. What the Lubbock teen didn’t ...

A Texas House committee took the unusual step of unanimously voting down the bill to make Austin a district of the state and ...

A bill lawmakers have discussed this month could could expand the patrol area for the Texas Department of Public Safety’s ...

The bill from Houston-area Republican state Rep. Briscoe Cain isn't the first attempt to undermine local control in Austin.

Texas leaders challenged a Houston-area representative behind a bill, HB 274, that would strip the city of Austin of its ...

Approximately one-third of Delaware’s state government revenue — about $2.2 billion — comes from corporate license fees and ...

“We are a state and nation built on 'In God We Trust ... Texas won a legal challenge to a Ten Commandments monument being ...

Emboldened by court rulings and election victories, the Christian right is outspoken as it pushes its moral views through the ...

FILE - Texas State Sen. Bryan Hughes , R - Mineola, speaks in favor of his anti-abortion Senate Bill 8 in the Senate Chamber at the Capitol on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (Jay Janner/Austin American ...

State legislators and friends of late U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner remembered the longtime Houston mayor as a devoted and impactful public servant as his body lies in the Texas Capitol this week.

from 1989 to 2016. Following the tragic death of longtime former Houston mayor and U.S. Representative Sylvester Turner, the Texas House has passed a resolution to allow Turner to lie in state in the ...

The former member of the Texas House is also lying in state at the Capitol in Austin from noon Thursday to noon Friday. In a memorial resolution Thursday morning, state representatives gave short ...