The Legislature will still have to appropriate the funds to pay the judgment, either during the upcoming special session or ...

The East Texas Food Bank (ETFB) released a statement addressing their concerns after the U.S. Senate passed a bill that will ...

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling means that Senate Bill 4, which allows local police to arrest suspected ...

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Here's how Texas' lawmakers and elected officials reacted to the news of the US House of Representatives' passage of the "Big Beautiful Bill" on Thursday.

Some 579 nursing homes would be at “elevated risk” of closure if Medicaid cuts proposed in a 10-year budget reconciliation ...

About a dozen people, including seven employees of Groomer’s Seafood, were taken into custody during an early-morning raid by immigration officers ...

As foreign espionage threats continue in the U.S. and in Texas, a new bill becomes law Sept. 1 that prohibits foreign ...

That means TWIA has a significant degree of exposure in the event of costly storms. As of April 2025, for example, TWIA had ...

Democrats last carried Texas in a presidential election 49 years ago, last elected a U.S. senator there in 1986 and have lost all statewide elections since 1994. Texas Republicans could, however, ...

Congress passed the “one big beautiful bill” and in it a provision that temporarily exempts certain tipped income from ...

Senate Bill 2753 will change the voting timeline in Texas for the first time since 1987 and would add more days and more ...