A Texas lawmaker has introduced a bill to change the language in the state’s abortion laws to make it clearer when exceptions ...

We’re on the verge of the the “biggest and most consequential school choice program in the entire country,” the U.S. senator ...

A Texas state senator has filed a bill calling for a study on immigration — specifically, the “economic, environmental, and financial impact of illegal immigration” in the state.

Preventing Disaster – Legislation to require security barriers to prevent crashes at hospital entrances is getting widespread support at the Texas Capitol. Matt Grant has the latest follow up in our ...

Texas professors and teachers' unions met with lawmakers Monday to say why they oppose school vouchers and limits on faculty ...

Minnie Fisher Cunningham helped get women in Texas the right to vote two years before the 19th Amendment was ratified.

State Representative Joanne Shofner of District 11 introduced House Bill 5503 to change I-35 in Travis County to "President ...

Austin is not exactly Trump country, so it naming a major, but troubled, highway through the city could send a mixed ...

House Bill 274, filed by State Rep. Briscoe Cain (R-Deer Park), was first announced in December and would allow the state to ...

Two Ector County ISD leaders, Bowie Middle School Principal Amy Russell and Director of Digital Learning Lauren Tavarez, spent two days at the State Capitol in Austin just before Spring Break, meeting ...

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

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