Deadline day in the House approaches. Members of the lower chamber are growing weary of the long nights. Members of the upper chamber have grown frustrated with the lack of movement of their bills in ...

State lawmakers moved closer to approving one of Gov. Greg Abbott’s key priorities Monday night with a vote on legislation that would require the mandatory detention of certain violent suspects ...

The Supreme Court of Texas last week revived a dismissed case filed against the City of College Station in an opinion that could be a bellwether for the future of a 2023 law governing extraterritorial ...

At the behest of one of Texas’ U.S. senators, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will open an investigation into a controversial new Muslim-centric community outside of the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Two bills broaching contentious social issues took the stage in the Texas House of Representatives on Saturday night — one requiring insurance companies to cover adverse results from gender ...

The Tarrant County Republican (TCGOP) executive committee voted on May 8 to censure freshman Rep. John McQueeney (R-Fort Worth) for some of the actions he has taken since joining the Texas House of ...

Texas issued indictments and arrests for six people in Frio County, four of whom were elected officials, due to alleged involvement in an “illegal vote harvesting scheme” — following Attorney General ...

Of all the topics of controversy I’ve covered, few have sparked as much evenly divided feedback as my recent story on the ongoing battle between Texas trophy deer breeders and the Texas Parks and ...

FBI Houston arrested six alleged members of a criminal ring for “sex trafficking and sexual exploitation of children” as a part of a coordinated national operation that resulted in the arrest of 225 ...

Elon Musk's influence in Texas has grown as Cameron County voters overwhelmingly approved the incorporation of a new town for SpaceX employees. SpaceX's spaceport, now known as the City of Starbase, ...

In the latest episode of Smoke Filled Room, Senior Editor McKenzie DiLullo and Senior Reporter Brad Johnson talk the passage of Senate Bill 17, a floor fight over the colloquially termed “bird bill,” ...

This story has been updated with a statement from Sen. Mayes Middleton. State lawmakers have voted to remove an exception in Texas law that effectively allowed adults to give obscene material to ...