Regulators of Texas’ oil and gas industry that buckled during February’s deadly freeze are moving to make operators better prepared for cold weather. But new rules passed Tuesday won’t come in time for winter.
Democrat Beto O’Rourke is running for governor of Texas, pursuing a blue breakthrough in America’s biggest red state after his star-making U.S. Senate campaign in 2018 put him closer than anyone in decades.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed suit against three more Texas school districts defying Governor Greg Abbott’s executive order preventing mask mandates, including the Sherman Independent School District.
Texas Democratic lawmakers are suing Republican Gov. Greg Abbott after he vetoed Capitol paycheck funds because they walked out to block sweeping new voting restrictions.
Civil rights organizations and people who were part of a Biden campaign caravan last fall that was surrounded on a Texas highway by Trump supporters have filed two federal lawsuits, including allegations that local law enforcement failed to respond to efforts to intimidate them.
Texas will now let people carry handguns without first getting a background check and training, becoming the latest and largest on a growing list of states to roll back permitting requirements for carrying guns in public.
A Blue Alert issued early Monday for a man wanted in connection with a shooting that left a Texas police officer injured was lifted late Wednesday afternoon, but the suspect is still at large.
Texas Republicans are pressing ahead with their push for tougher election laws after Democrats’ defiant weekend walkout stopped one of the nation’s most restrictive voting measures.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order Tuesday that bars counties, cities, school districts, public health authorities and government officials from mandating face masks effective Saturday.
Texas on Monday joined the growing number of states that will stop paying the federally funded $300 in extra pandemic-related weekly unemployment aid as businesses that scaled back or shuttered during the pandemic are reopening
Texas would ban abortions after as early six weeks - before many women know they are pregnant - and allow private citizens to enforce the rule through civil lawsuits against doctors and others under a measure given preliminary approval by the GOP-dominated state House on Wednesday.
Texas would allow people to carry handguns without a license, and the background check and training that go with it, under a measure approved by the state Senate on Wednesday.
A Texas lawyer known as the “DWI Dude” has been sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison for falsely promising Colombian drug traffickers he’d get their charges reduced in exchange for cash.
Texas’ torrid growth over the past decade is paying off with a major boost in political clout - two additional congressional seats and electoral votes deepening its already massive influence in the nation’s politics.
April is distracted driving awareness month and, according to AAA, more than half of Texas drivers admitted to using their cellphones while driving, but that number could be much higher.
A 41-year-old man is wanted in the fatal shooting of three people in Austin, Texas, and police officials searching the surrounding area are warning residents that the suspect might take a hostage.
Texas handgun owners would no longer need a license or training to carry their weapon in public under a bill that has cleared a major vote in the GOP-controlled state Capitol.
A suspect in a fatal carjacking and shooting of a Burleson police officer was arrested after an attempted traffic stop on Interstate 35 ended in a manhunt in a Gainesville neighborhood Wednesday afternoon.
Officer KC Robinson and his 6-year-old daughter, Brynlee, will be laid to rest at 1 p.m. Thursday afternoon. The Prestonwood Baptist Church in Prosper will host the services.
