A yearslong spike of in-custody deaths in the Tarrant County Jail could come under scrutiny by the Texas Legislature with a bipartisan pair of bills filed by Tarrant County House members Nicole ...

The move comes a few weeks after the Texas A&M System issued a similar ban, which is being challenged in court.

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

As a committee of the Texas Legislature prepares to discuss a bill framed as a solution to squatting, housing advocates and ...

A Texas senator is taking action after a KXAN investigation revealed that no state agency is tracking the thousands of ...

A recurring complaint we hear from police in Dallas is that they arrest dangerous people only to see them released from jail ...

The Texas Supreme Court will decide whether lawsuits filed against Texas transmission and distribution utilities after the ...

Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice James D. Blacklock asked the Supreme Court Advisory Committee (the “Committee”) to “study ...

Amid the Keller school district split turmoil, this state representative aims to make it much harder for school boards to ...

While Harris County DA Sean Teare blames Republicans for bail failures, Sen. Joan Huffman notes the Texas Senate is ...

A state senator has filed legislation to shore up the state’s collection of truancy court information to provide lawmakers and education leaders a clearer picture of how the civil penalty system ...

Hegar, who currently serves as Texas comptroller, will replace A&M Chancellor John Sharp in leading the 157,000-student ...