Past efforts to allow more religion in public schools have been hamstrung by legal challenges. But those on the religious right feel empowered by recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

Bird flu is spreading among Central Texas wild birds as migration brings more and more birds here for the winter.

The idea that there "ain't no surf in Texas" persists. But as a new Galveston museum explores, adventurers have been catching waves here for at least a century.

The Texas Department of State Health Services has described the biannual immunization conference as a "vital platform" that in the past drew strong participation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

During the 1970s, author and photographer Sarah Bird documented small-town Black rodeos in Texas. She turned that material in book and museum exhibit

Ford taillight thefts are in the news. In Texas, the Webster Police Department, near Houston, recently investigated a crime ring responsible for stealing taillights from high-end Ford trucks around the greater Harris County region.

Julian Comeaux, 21, died at the scene of Sunday night's shooting in midtown Houston. His mother says he was planning to enlist in the Navy.

Currently, the transmission risk of avian influenza from infected birds to people remains low, but the public should take basic protective measures if contact with wild animals cannot be avoided. The public and health care professionals can find more information about HPAI in humans from the Texas Department of State Health Services.

Photos of colorless, phantom-like rainbows mysteriously shining over the Texas Gulf Coast have been recently circulating on social media, and they're not photoshopped. They're a real phenomenon sometimes referred to as a ghost rainbow,

The Texas Department of State Health Services has canceled its biennial immunization conference amid uncertainty at the federal level, the agency announced Wednesday.

Republican Texas lawmakers are renewing a push to infuse a greater religious influence in the state's public schools with a pair of bills introduced Monday in the state Senate. Here's what's proposed.

Meaning from that point on the formerly enslaved people of Texas were finally free leading to the idea of what many now call the Emancipation trail, a 51 mile route from Galveston